Hong Kong – 4 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised HSBC and Citigroup on the HK$6 billion securitisation of the toll revenues generated by the Hong Kong SAR Government-owned bridges and tunnels. The transaction, due to close in early May, involved the issue of three tranches of Hong Kong […]

NEW YORK, May 9 – LAWFUEL – Since 9/11, secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld insisted on personally signing off on the harsher methods used to squeeze suspected terrorists held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba reports Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in the May 17 Newsweek cover story (on newsstands Monday, May 10).

REDMOND, Wash., May 8 – LAWFUEL – Microsoft Corp. today commended German law enforcement for its prompt arrest relating to the Sasser worm and confirmed that the company’s anti-virus reward program investigators had worked with informants on the case during the past week. German authorities were able to arrest the alleged perpetrator of the Sasser

7 May, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Immigration & Customs Enforcement; Thomas W. Raffanello, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration; Amos Rojas, Jr., Regional Director, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, John Timoney, Chief of Police, City of

BEIJING, May 7, 2004 – LAWFUEL – International law firm Holland & Knight LLP announced today that the Chinese Ministry of Justice has granted the firm a license to open an office in Beijing, China. This office is the Firm’s second in Asia (in addition to Tokyo) and its eighth overseas location. Ms. Zhao Xiaohua

WASHINGTON, May 3 – LAWFUEL – Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP announced today that Richard A. Drom has joined the Firm as a partner. Mr. Drom will lead the Firm’s energy practice. He was most recently a partner at the law firm of Troutman Sanders in Washington, D.C. Mr. Drom’s practice will be based

5 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A British national was charged today with extortion and tampering with consumer products for sending several adulterated food items – including baby formula contaminated with boric acid – to the Ralphs grocery chain and demanding $180,000 to prevent poisoned food from being placed on store shelves. David Ian Dickinson,

May 5, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Charles Russell is to work with highly-regarded Technology, Media & Telecoms specialist Daniel Preiskel. Daniel is well-known in the international telecoms, IT and media fields and is recognised as a leading practitioner. He will work closely under a consultancy agreement with Charles Russell partner Mark Moncreiffe and the rest

New York, NY, May 5, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Baker & McKenzie lawyers in London and New York represented QBE International Insurance Ltd. in a multibillion-dollar case addressing property insurance coverage of the World Trade Center attack. A jury reached a partial verdict in the case last Thursday, and reached a further verdict on Monday,

5 May, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The co-owner and operator of a Beverly Hills-based telemarketing operation known as the Satellite Capital Group has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a scheme that cost victims more than $6 million. Richard Hines, 58, of Long Beach, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in federal court in Santa Ana