The national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (“K&L”) is pleased to announce the expansion of its construction law practice with the addition of C. Grainger Bowman as of counsel. Bowman, a graduate of Dickinson Law School and Princeton University, will be resident in the firm’s Harrisburg office, where he will concentrate in the […]

A team of Jones Day Chicago lawyers led by Tim Melton and Edward Winslow advised Great Lakes REIT in the negotiation of a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by Aslan Realty Partners II, L.P., an affiliate of Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C. (“Transwestern”) which was signed today. Under the terms of the merger, Transwestern will

James Paul Lewis Jr., who allegedly operated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history and victimized thousands of investors throughout the country, was apprehended last night by Agents with the FBI’s Houston, Texas, Field Office. At approximately 2:00 a.m. Central Time, acting on information provided by the FBI in Los Angeles, Lewis was taken

Baker & McKenzie advised Aluminum Corporation of China (“Chalco”) on its recent 550 million new shares placement which raised HK$3.11 billion. This is the largest H-share secondary offering and was approximately four times subscribed. The proceeds will fund the third phase of expansion at Chalco’s alumina refinery in Shanxi province, and will also be used

Kilpatrick Stockton attorney and immediate past president of the American Cancer Society David M. Zacks received the Justice Robert Benham Award for Community Service for his outstanding community contributions during a presentation at the State Bar of Georgia’s Jan. 15-16 Midyear Meeting at the Sheraton Hotel at Colony Square. Wyck A. Knox of Augusta nominated

Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office James Sheehan announced today the arrest of Russell William Sprague, 51, a resident of Homewood, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) on charges of criminal copyright infringement and illegal interception of a satellite signal. The arrest was made in connection with a Los Angeles-based

Kaye Scholer Wins Two More PPA Cases For Novartis CA Victories Follow Last Week’s Jury Verdict in Favor of Novartis in NJ Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, Jan 23, 2004 – Following last Friday’s unanimous jury verdict in the first PPA (phenylpropanolamine) case tried in the country, yesterday Kaye Scholer LLP successfully defended

At the Worldaware Business Awards 2004 ceremony held at the Royal Society in London yesterday, Baker & McKenzie received ‘The Department of Trade and Industry Award for Capacity Building in the Developing World’. The award is given to an organisation for its role in enhancing the ability of a developing country to participate in international

In Restructuring Being Completed Under New Argentine Bankruptcy Law Chadbourne & Parke LLP is representing Sideco Americana, an Argentina-based conglomerate, in the restructuring of approximately US $125 million (about $390 million Argentine pesos) of notes pursuant to an Argentine Acuerdo Preventivo Extrajudicial, or “APE”, which is an out-of-court restructuring agreement filed for court approval akin

Robert F Grondine, a partner in the Tokyo office of White and Case was recently named chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. Mr Grondine, an ACCJ member since 1982, has served in the Chamber in a number of leadership roles, including Chair of the 50th anniversary committee, Vice President and President in