10 January 2012 – Slaughter and May advised Banco Santander on an agreement to transfer 4.41% of Santander Brazil to a major international financial institution who will deliver such shares upon exchange to holders of exchangeable bonds issued by Banco Santander in October 2010.

Nancy Reiner, Managing Director for the Boston office of legal search firm Major Lindsey & Africa writes in the Boston Globe about her views on the year ahead for the law business. Up or down? So far as Masswachusetts is concerned, things are looking good. Massachusetts added 50,000 jobs during 2011 and unemployment fell to

January 7 2012 Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES DeANGELIS was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon to 57 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent investment scheme through which he and others defrauded more than 15 victims out of more

5 January 2012 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP today announced the launch of an English law practice in its London office with the arrival of Simon Witty, one of London’s premier lawyers. The addition of English law capabilities to the firm’s long-established U.S. law practice in London is a strategically important step. It enhances Davis

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BALTIMORE, MD January 5, 2012 Twenty-eight Ober|Kaler attorneys have been selected for the 2012 edition of Maryland Super Lawyers. The selections span twelvecategories, with Ober|Kaler lawyers making an especially strong showing in the Construction Litigation and Health Care categories. The following lawyers appear: Raymond Daniel Burke, Construction Litigation Patrick K. Cameron, Banking David L. Cole,

January 5, 2012 DENVER – Denver Health and Hospital Authority, doing business as Denver Heath Medical Center, will pay the United States and the State of Colorado $6,300,000 to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by misclassifying patients for hospital admissions. Both federal and state funds are involved. Medicare is the federal system

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WASHINGTON, DC – January 3, 2012 Ober|Kaler announced today that Alan J. Arvillehas been elected a principal of the firm, effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Arville is resident in Ober|Kaler’s Washington, DC, office as a member of the firm’s HealthLaw Group. He focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory issues for the health care industry,