5 July 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Linklaters is pleased to announce its results for the financial year ended 30 April 2007: Revenue increased by 20 per cent to £1.12bn (US$2.2bn)* Profit increased by 29 per cent to £490m (US$970m) Average profit per equity partner rose 22 per cent to £1.294m (US$2.56m) Tony […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) obtained orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland yesterday to wind-up a company which despite being registered and in the process of being divested of assets, had no registered office, directors, secretary or anyone in real or apparent control. The Court ordered

5 July 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made two new appointments in its financial institutions group in London recently, promoting Jonathan Baird to the partnership and Mac Mackenzie to Counsel. Commenting on the appointments, Will Lawes, co-head of the firm’s global financial institutions group said:

Lovells has acted for BBVA on the purchase of Parque Empresarial Foresta, a Madrid business park developed by Spanish company GMP. The bank plans to develop its new headquarters in the business park. Detail: BBVA, one of the leading Spanish financial institutions, closed the deal to acquire Parque Empresarial Foresta on 19 June. This business

LAWFUEL – Latest posting from LawJobsPipeline.com – the Law Jobs blog – The role of in-house counsel has been previously under-estimated by many outside lawyers who believe their sinecure with their captive law firm clients is well secure. No longer. A survey recently conducted by BTI Consulting Group showed that law firms, in the US

July 5, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – The Firm is representing The Blackstone Group in its $26 billion acquisition of Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE: HLT). Hilton owns, manages or franchises more than 2,800 hotels, with 480,000 rooms in 76 countries and countries. Its brands include Hilton, Conrad, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn,

The man who once was a suspect in the murder of beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was arrested Saturday after a fight with his father, police said. John Mark Karr, 42, was treated briefly at St. Joseph’s Hospital after complaining of chest pains and then taken to the Fulton County jail on charges of battery and

LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – The Times Lawyer of the Week – Sailesh Mehta, a barrister at 2 Hare Court, is chairman of the Society of Asian Lawyers, which is behind an initiative to have FTSE 100 companies question top City law firms on the ethnic make-up of the teams of lawyers working on

As Paris Hilton, America’s most famous jailbird, was snapped splashing through the surf on a Hawaiian beach her grand-daddy’s business was sol,d in a deal that promises to make Barron Hilton almost $1 billion richer, The Times reports. The 26-year-old socialite had good reason to be smiling for the cameras, and not just because she