LAWFUEL – Law News on Celebrities – On Tuesday, Dog the Bounty Hunter flew in from a meeting on his extradition case, just in time to “arrest” some folks — for a March Of Dimes “Jail & Bail” Fundraiser in Bishop Square. In a nearby coffee shop, waiting to be arrested, was ESPN 1420’s Bobby […]

Monday 20 November 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained undertakings in the Federal Court of Australia from the operators of an unregistered investment scheme in relation to property development projects in New South Wales (NSW). ASIC alleges that Mega-Money Pty Ltd, Sevelle Corporation Pty

O.J.’S Lawyer ‘P—ed’ About Being Kept in the Dark on Book Deal; Says Profits Are ‘Blood Money … I Definitely Would Not Have Approved This’ NEW YORK, Nov. 19 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network — O.J. Simpson’s book deal for “If I Did It,” his account of how he would have killed Nicole

15 November 2006 – LAWFUEL – Europe Law & Business News – International law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP’s finance practice has advised Landesbank Berlin AG in the restructuring of its securities arbitrage conduit, Check Point Charlie. The deal closed on 10 November 2006. Highlighted recently by Moody’s as “one of the most

LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – International legal practice Norton Rose, representing Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB, has been successful in the Court of Appeal in an action to enforce a Danish arbitration award against the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. The dispute between the parties arose out of a Joint Venture Agreement

November 15, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Shearman & Sterling LLP is currently advising private equity investment firm Diamond Castle Holdings, LLC in an agreement by their affiliate Bonten Media Group LLC to purchase all of the issued and outstanding stock of BlueStone TV Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary

Lovells have acted for First Data on an agreement with Warburg Pincus on the divesture of 100% of the shares in easycash GmbH. Detail: First Data sold easycash in a competitive auction process which attracted the interest of a large number of both industrial buyers and financial investors. The divestiture had been requested by the

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – The Munich office of leading corporate commercial firm SJ Berwin LLP advised longstanding client Deutsche Beteiligungs AG on the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Homag Group AG (“Homag”), a manufacturer of woodworking machinery for the furniture and construction supplies industries with sales in 2005 of approximately

A Chip for My Old Block By Jim Castagnera Attorney at Large Last summer, my son married a German girl. They live in Hamburg, her hometown. When my family and I were at the wedding, and I was in my cups, I boasted about learning to speak German. Marc, who majored in German at Temple