LAWFUEL – European Business & Law – Major companies throughout Europe are increasingly worried about the threat from regulators – so much so that 40% believe they will be investigated within the next 12 months. The findings, from a survey of 250 leading European firms for the global legal services organisation DLA Piper, show that […]

LAWFUEL – Media Law News – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Christina Pharo, United States Marshals for the Southern District of Florida, announced that defendant Martin Sarthou, a TV reporter for Teledoce of Uruguay, pled guilty today, in Miami, Florida, and was sentenced for criminal contempt of

London – DLA Piper has advised leading global designer and supplier of lighting systems, SLI Holdings International, LLC (SLI Holdings), on the sale of its general lighting business (SLI Sylvania) to listed electrical manufacturer Havell’s India Limited (Havell’s) for €227.5 million. SLI Holdings is controlled by a consortium of private equity firms, led by DDJ

The Corporate Library CEO Richard Bennett to Address Event Washington, D.C., March 15, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today panelists participating in the March 19 SEC roundtable on the use of interactive data by public companies and mutual funds to improve disclosure for individual investors. The Commission also announced that,

LawFuel.com – The confession to masterminding the 9/11 terror attacks could be either deception or delusion, according to some reports following an analysying of the wandering monologue of Khalid Mohammed. TIME magazine, for one, asks whether his claims can be believed noting that Mohammed has long been described — notably in The 9/11 Commission Report

WASHINGTON, March 15 LAWFUEL – Iraq News, Legal News — The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush and Vice President Adil Abd Al-Mahdi of Iraq in a photo opportunity: The Oval Office 10:55 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: It is such an honor to welcome the Vice President of a free Iraq to

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WASHINGTON, March 14, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Terrorism & Law Issues – Administrative tribunals were held March 9 and 10 for three of the 14 high-value detainees being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Defense Department announced on March 12. Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings were held March 10 for

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2007 – LAWFUEL – US Legal News – Suspected al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Muhammad has admitted masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as well as the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” an interpreter read from Muhammad’s statement to the

HOUSTON, March 14 LAWFUEL — Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that Evan D. Flaschen and Gregory W. Nye will join the firm as partners. Both are currently partners in the Financial Restructuring Group at Bingham McCutchen LLP. It is expected that a number of financial restructuring attorneys from Bingham will follow Mr. Flaschen and