May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy is advising Celltech Group plc, the leading UK-based biotechnology company, on the £1.53 billion recommended offer by Belgian company UCB S.A., announced today. The 550 pence per share cash deal will create a bio-pharmaceutical leader in Europe, and one of the largest biopharmaceutical companies in the […]

Top lawyers from four jurisdictions make world top-ranking list Lawyers who made the “Law Star” list for 2004 have been named by online publisher, LawFuel. Among the 15 nominees announced by the law news website are New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and sacked Michael Jackson attorney Mark Geragos. The LawFuel list of legal stars

TORONTO – May 19, 2004- LAWFUEL – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading full-service business law firms, today announced that John Orange and Santosh Chari will be joining the Blakes Intellectual Property Group in Toronto. “John and Santosh are very well-known in the intellectual property field,” said Jim Christie, the Firm’s

May 18, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Stikeman Elliott LLP is pleased to announce that Donald H. Bunker has joined the firm’s Montreal office as Counsel. Recognized as an international aircraft finance and aviation lawyer with experience acting for financiers, lessors and purchasers of aircraft around the world, Don joins the firm from Dubai, where he

May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donald J. Balberchak, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, and Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today that a federal grand jury

San Diego, May 20, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Three of San Diego’s leading trial lawyers are joining Morrison & Foerster as partners in the Firm’s San Diego office. Each has over 20 years’ experience in civil litigation, with extensive trial histories that include work on high-profile tort claims, business litigation and real estate disputes in

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announced today that 12 of the law firm’s practice areas and 37 of its attorneys are listed among the annual Chambers & Partners guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Independent research conducted by Chambers & Partners recognizes various practice groups and attorneys of the firm for representing a national client-base on critical

Hong Kong – May 19, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Clifford Chance has been named “Best Law Firm” at the FinanceAsia / AsianInvestor Magazine 2004 Achievement Awards ceremony in May at the Island Shangri La Hotel, Hong Kong, an annual event for the Asian funds industry. The award reflects the firm’s outstanding reputation and expertise in

17 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A pharmacist who owned and operated the San Jacinto Pharmacy in San Jacinto has been convicted of distribution of pseudoephedrine with the knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Following a three-week trial in United States District Court in Riverside, Jae Gab

May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy is pleased to announce that one of its leading partners, David Mackie CBE QC, has been appointed as a judge. From 30 June 2004, Mackie will serve as a Specialist Mercantile Circuit Judge at the Central London Civil Justice Centre. He has been a partner with