LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced an agreement with Pinnacle Group, LLC to provide for redress tenants who may have been overcharged excessive rents in rentstabilized apartments owned or managed by Pinnacle. Pinnacle is one of the largest owners of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City, owning more […]

BOSTON- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Legal Jobs -Foley Hoag LLP announced the arrival of Kevin Smith as the firm’s first Chief Financial Officer. As the firm’s CFO, Mr. Smith will have oversight of the firm’s finance, accounting and treasury operations. Mr. Smith began his career at HP Hood Inc. in their Management Training

NEW YORK- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network -The new issue of ALM’s Corporate Counsel® magazine, out today, provides the most detailed analysis yet reported on how ex-Hewlett-Packard general counsel Ann Baskins could have —and failed — to stop the spying scandal that rocked HP and resulted in criminal indictments of the company’s chairman and a

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Jeremy Christian Brickner, 30, was indicted on December 7, 2006, on two counts of impersonating an agent of the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 913. Mr. Brickner allegedly misrepresented himself as an immigration

NEW YORK- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Legal Jobs -The National Law Journal® today announced the selection of litigator and high-profile defense attorney Theodore V. Wells Jr as its 2006 “Lawyer of the Year.” Wells, who is preparing to defend I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in a trial scheduled for Jan. 16, is co-chairman of

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –Davis Polk & Wardwell is pleased to announce that Erin Cho, George Hacket, Mark Lehmkuhler, James McClammy, Christopher Schell, David Toscano and Erika White have been elected Counsel to the firm as of December 1, 2006. Ms. Cho is Counsel in the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

Monday 18 December 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Mr James (Jim) Selim, the former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited, was today committed in the Balmain Local Court in Sydney to face four charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The charges relate to the

Frankfurt am Main, December 15, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – The Munich office of the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, together with its Boston, London and Frankfurt offices, advised Saban Capital Group and German Media Partners L.P. on the sale of its shares in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – International law firm Eversheds today announced that it has advised Phoenix Equity Partners on the acquisition of media management company KBBI Limited. The vendor was private equity house 3i. The Eversheds team was led by private equity partner Mark Spinner, working with Debbie Fuller, Caspar Fox of the tax

LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs – Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Citigroup Global Markets Limited and Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Branch, as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with an offering of US$465 million principal amount of 10.75% guaranteed notes due 2013. True Move Company Limited is a nationwide mobile telecommunications operator in