May 11, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy has advised the mandated lead arrangers ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and BNP Paribas S.A. on the provision of a US$300 million borrowing base acquisition facility to Tullow Oil plc to part finance its acquisition of Energy Africa Limited. Energy Africa Limited is quoted on the South […]

May 21, 2004, San Francisco, CA- LAWFUEL -Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (K&L) is pleased to announce that Christopher O.B. Wright has joined as a partner in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Intellectual Property practice groups. Wright was a partner at Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, California from 1997 to 2004. His prior experience includes

20 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A man currently serving a 12½-year sentence for impersonating a physician was sentenced this morning to an additional 120 months in federal prison for posing as a doctor after escaping from prison in 2000. Gerald Barnes, 70, was sentenced on his fifth conviction of impersonating a doctor. The 10-year

May 20, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Stikeman Elliott LLP, which has a thriving cross-border practice, is the only Canadian law firm recognized in American Lawyer’s newly-released 2003 Mergers & Acquisitions rankings. Stikeman Elliott LLP claimed its position as the only recognized law firm in Canada listed among the United States’ leading M&A law firms by

ATLANTA (May 18) — Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announced today that the 2004-2005 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, was named “Leading Georgia Firm for Intellectual Property.” Kilpatrick Stockton is referred to as “at the top of the game” with its “strong caliber” of attorneys who have established an “uncommonly large and sophisticated” practice.

CHICAGO, May 14 – LAWFUEL – Piper Rudnick LLP has appointed former Northwestern University Law School Dean of Students Theresa D. Cropper as its new director of diversity, the law firm announced today Ms. Cropper will lead Piper Rudnick’s Diversity Initiative, created in 2002—a five-year program to improve diversity within the firm. “We are thrilled

New York, NY, May 13, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Baker & McKenzie lawyers Grant Hanessian, Joseph Samet and Michael Stoker of the Firm’s New York office have been named recipients of the prestigious Burton Award for Legal Achievement. The award, honoring excellence in legal writing for their co-authored article entitled “Intellectual Property Licenses, Arbitration and

CHICAGO, May 15, 2004 – LAWFUEL — Goldberg Kohn is pleased to announce the formation of two Goldberg Kohn Summer Fellow positions at the University of Michigan Law School’s Child Welfare Law Summer Fellowship Program. These Fellowship positions, made possible through a $5,000 donation from Goldberg Kohn and a matching grant from the Bergstrom Foundation,

May 15, 2004 – LAWFUEL – A Glendale man was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally importing an injurious species, namely the northern snakehead fish, which can breathe air, walk on land and as an adult voraciously feed on native fish and animals. Sung Chul “Daniel” Rhee, 46, was arrested without incident this

14 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy is advising Syngenta, a world-leading agribusiness based in Switzerland, on its agreement to acquire Advanta BV, a global agricultural seed company operating in some 24 countries from AstraZeneca and Royal Cosun. Allen & Overy is also advising on the contemporaneous sale of part of the Advanta