A team from Hammonds has advised Sandwell Council on the innovative £40m c/PLEX arts and technology project in West Bromwich which will be a major part of Sandwell’s emerging Learning and Cultural Quarter. c/PLEX is the flagship project of the £250 million regeneration of West Bromwich town centre. Due to open in 2005, the landmark […]

Partners James Magee, David Lundsgaard and Jeffrey Beaver, assisted by Paige Kirkhus, successfully defended a Northwest and Alaskan fish processor in a class-action antitrust price fixing case. The processor was one of 12 remaining defendants, all of whom proved victorious following a four-month trial in Anchorage, Alaska. On Friday, May 23rd, the jury deliberated for

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that high-profile criminal and civil litigator Abbe D. Lowell, 51, will be joining the Firm as a partner, resident in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lowell comes to Chadbourne from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, where he was head of the white collar and special investigations

Nixon Peabody LLP announced that it is expanding its securitization and structured finance practice with the addition of Marc J. Veilleux, who has joined the firm as partner in the New York City office to become the head of the firm’s Securitization and Structured Finance Group. Mr. Veilleux joins from the Securitization and Derivatives Group

Latham & Watkins LLP1 said that its project development and finance team have advised on four of the largest project financings to close in the region this year. Three of the transactions have closed within the past four weeks. These include: Nanahi Petrochemicals Complex (China) Latham represented the commercial lenders in one of the largest

Blake, Cassels & Graydon announced today that one of Canada’s foremost legal scholars, Professor Peter Hogg, Q.C., has returned to Blakes as Scholar in Residence. Professor Hogg had been the dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University since leaving Blakes in 1998. His term ended on June 30, 2003. “We’re delighted that

Gadsby Hannah LLP, a leading business and technology law firm, announced today that Peter M. Zuk, a nationally recognized construction expert, has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Zuk comes back to New England from Colorado, where he recently served as Vice President of Global Construction for industry giant Level 3 Communications. Prior to

Baker & McKenzie announced today that it advised WTF Holdings (Switzerland) Ltd. (“WTF Holdings”), a joint venture of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners and PSP Swiss Property AG, on the real estate aspects of the € 699 million Eiger Trust Securitization, a multi-tranche CMBS benchmark issue for WTF Holdings. The transaction is the first ever

Northrop Grumman Corporation has agreed to an $80 million joint settlement of two civil False Claims Act complaints filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Of the $80 million, the government allocated $60 million to settle allegations that Newport News Shipbuilding, Inc., acquired by Northrop Grumman in December 2001, improperly charged certain independent research and

Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented subsidiaries of Allegheny Energy Inc. in negotiations of the June 10 global settlement with agencies of the State of California to resolve a dispute over a $4 billion energy supply contract. The suit related to long-term energy supply deals entered into by California and others in 2001 during the height