New York, April 16, 2004– Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, a ranking guide of lawyers in the United States, included 51 individual attorney rankings for Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP in its 2004 guide. Chambers and Partners, publishers of the guide, include law firms on merit only. The publisher investigated law firms and […]

Slaughter and May is advising GlaxoSmithKline plc in relation to its €453 million acquisition of two injectable anti-thrombotic agents, Fraxiparine and Arixtra, and a French manufacturing facility from Sanofi-Synthélabo. The acquisition was announced on 13 April 2004 and completion is conditional upon the closing of Sanofi-Synthélabo’s public offer for Aventis and receipt of requisite competition

WASHINGTON-April 14, 2004-Global Securities Information, Inc. announces the following legal counsels finished the first quarter of 2004 with the highest total transaction value of mergers and acquisitions. According to the rankings, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s 19 first quarter deals totaled over $19 billion, enough to top Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, whose 7

2 April 2004, Chicago – Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has represented Molex Incorporated (MOLX) (MOLXA), a global electronic components company, in completing its previously announced transaction to acquire the automotive and specialty connectors business of Connecteurs Cinch SA (“Cinch”), an affiliate of SNECMA, the French aerospace group. “There is a good fit between

April 7, 2004 – Cleary Gottlieb won antitrust clearance from the European Commission for an alliance between client Alitalia and Air France, which will permit extensive cooperation between the airlines, particularly on routes between France and Italy. The cooperation includes joint network planning, joint sales, joint pricing, and cooperation in frequent flyer programs and cargo

The corporate finance team at leading law firm Charles Russell has advised Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited on the largest AIM listing so far this year. Partner Clive Hopewell led the Charles Russell team, along with associate Adam Dowdney and assistant Dominic Keenan, in the listing of NETeller plc which was admitted on to AIM today

A Yorba Linda man and six others involved with a tax preparation service were indicted today on federal charges related to the preparation of thousands of federal income tax returns that fraudulently sought an estimated $47 million in refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. A federal grand jury in Santa Ana returned a 23-count indictment

Jeffry L. Weiler, of the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, is the recipient of the Distinguished Estate Planner Award for 2004 presented by The Estate Planning Council of Cleveland. The Council is an organization of approximately 500 estate planning professionals including attorneys, accountants, bankers, financial planners and insurance advisors. The award will

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, & Aronoff LLP’s national Health Care Practice Group recently acted as health care regulatory counsel in connection with the investment of General Atlantic Partners, LLC in MultiPlan Inc., a nationwide preferred provider organization, and MultiPlan Inc.’s subsequent purchase of the US preferred provider organization operations of BCE Emergis Corp.

5 April 2004 – Linklaters has appointed Pim Horsten, a highly regarded Dutch capital markets partner, to its Amsterdam office. Pim, formerly a partner at Allen & Overy, has more than ten years of experience in a broad range of capital markets work including debt, equity-linked, equities and derivatives, as well as regulatory advice for