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

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Ground Zero insurance settlement, related to the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, has settled in the largest such settlement ever undertaken, ending a protracted legal battle and opening the way for rebuiding on the WTC site. The New York Times reports. The Spitzer administration announced the

New York, NY, May 23, 2007 — The Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) last night honored Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP at its 50th Golden Anniversary Gala Banquet at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Fried Frank was honored for its community service and its support of the PRBA, including its regular