US tech giant Hewlett-Packard has reached a settlement with US regulators for failing to disclose why a director suddenly resigned amid a company probe of boardroom leaks, RTE Business reports. HP said that no monetary or other penalties were lodged as a part of the settlement but that it agreed, without admitting or denying fault, […]

ESPOO, Finland, May 24 /LAWFUEL- The Law News Wire — Nokia (NYSE:NOK) today announced it has responded to the Qualcomm lawsuit filed in the Western District of Wisconsin on 2 April, 2007. Nokia remains confident that its products do not infringe either of the two Qualcomm patents-in-suit and asserts that both patents are invalid. Nokia

LawFuel – See ‘Hot Files – Smokin’ Joe Frazier has a heap of trouble back home, with his very own daughter throwing the punches. Frazier has filed a complaint in Pennsylvania state court against Jackie Frazier-Lyde, his daughter, who served as Frazier’s attorney and business adviser from 1989 to 2004, according to the legal papers.

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The cost of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s restructuring has topped £55m, nearly 40 per cent more than was budgeted, The Lawyer reports from London. The final price of the restructuring stood at £55m at the end of the 2006-07 financial year, rather than the £40m that had been forecast

Rome, — LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Rome office of Shearman & Sterling acted as U.S. and English counsel to Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, as selling shareholder, and Prysmian S.p.A., as issuer, in connection with the initial public offering in Italy and the private placement to institutional investors internationally of Prysmian S.p.A.’s

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Lovells has been nominated for four awards at the ALB Japan Law Awards, to be held in Tokyo on 31 May. Detail: The firm is shortlisted in the following award categories: • M&A Deal of the Year – Softbank: Vodafone Japan • Securitisation Deal of the Year: SoftBank

22 May 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – EMI Group plc has announced the terms of a recommended cash offer for EMI by Maltby Limited, a company formed at the direction of Terra Firma. International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising long-standing client EMI on this transaction. The cash offer of

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – An indictment handed down in the US District Court charged a millionaire couple Tuesday night formally with two counts of forced labor and added two counts of harboring illegal residents. The slavery charges related to the accusation that the couple kept two Indonesian women as slaves in their

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Conrad Black, as chairman of Hollinger International Inc., lived a lifestyle so lavish that he needed two Park Avenue apartments — one for his servants, Bloomberg reports. His wife, Barbara Amiel Black, had five separate closets for her evening gowns, $500 shoes and $7,000 handbags in their London

London, 21 May 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Baker & McKenzie LLP has advised Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) in relation to the establishment of its UK Technical Centre through the acquisition, by its subsidiary, SAIC Motor UK Holding Co. Limited, of Ricardo (2010) Consultants Limited, now renamed SAIC Motor UK