Ashurst Morris Crisp has elected nine new partners with effect from 1 May 2003, bringing the total number of partners in the firm to 150. Five of the new partners are based in London, two in Paris, one in Brussels and one in Frankfurt. The new partners in London are: Jeremy Drew (IP/IT litigation), David […]

As efforts to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure begin, numerous Middle East experts converged on the Washington office of Baker Botts L.L.P. to focus on the country’s reconstruction efforts and its economic future. Baker Botts and The National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce (NUSACC) hosted an international briefing on April 30, 2003. Steven Miles, head of Baker Botts’

Finning International Inc. today announced the acquisition by Finning (UK) Ltd. from RAC Plc of the business of Lex Harvey Limited, a leading provider of materials handling solutions in the UK. International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Finning on the acquisition. The purchase price of the business is £98.455m subject to certain post completion

Ross & Hardies’ partners, Barbara Baran, Richard J. Rappaport and Darren J. Hunter assisted by associate Samantha Gordon, won a motion to dismiss disposing of a federal antitrust class-action complaint against client, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and North Shore Gas Company. The plaintiffs claimed that the utilities’ practice of providing natural gas

A specialist banking and insurance deal team from Pinsent Curtis Biddle has advised Bank of Scotland on a £147 million management buyout from health insurer Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA). The high profile deal has seen RSA continue its disposal programme by selling its healthcare business, which provides private medical, personal accident, travel and legal

In July, Cleary Gottlieb closed 20 Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae real estate mortgage investment conduit (REMIC) transactions, representing a total of more than $34 billion of mortgage-backed securities. The firm represented the underwriters, including Countrywide, Lehman, JP Morgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Greenwich and Nomura. To

Buchanan Ingersoll represented BodyMedia, a leading provider of body monitoring products, in a $4 million third round financing deal that was announced on August 5. The team from Buchanan Ingersoll consisted of corporate attorneys Jeremy Garvey and Chad Whalen. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvertson ePlanet of Redwood City, CA and Draper Triangle

Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP and the Roseland, New Jersey law firm of Brach, Eichler, Rosenberg, Silver, Bernstein, Hammer & Gladstone, P.C. today announced the joining of their practices, creating a 300-lawyer entity with nine offices in the Mid- Atlantic region. For a transitional period, the Roseland, New Jersey office will be known as

Rosemarie Oda has joined the San Francisco office of Pillsbury Winthrop as Counsel in the financial institutions practice. Oda held high-ranking positions at both a federal bank regulatory agency and a state banking department. For the past three years, she has held the position of General Counsel of the Department of Financial Institutions for the

Mississippi lawyers Butler Snow recently completed the construction of a state-of-the-art courtroom which is equipped with the latest courtroom technology and is thought to be the first such facility in Mississippi. Modern trial practice requires a lawyer not only to have knowledge of traditional courtroom skills in communication and tactics, but also to be proficient