ATLANTA, Nov. 9 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network — Powell Goldstein LLP is pleased to welcome R. Joseph Burby, IV as an Atlanta-based partner in its Special Matters & Investigations Practice Group. He joins a multidisciplinary team that includes former federal prosecutors, securities enforcement lawyers and attorneys with substantive industry expertise. Burby comes […]

Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) MEDIA RELEASE Friday 10 November 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian Financial Services Licence held by South Australian company, Australian Business Insurance Advisers Pty Ltd (ABIA) and banned its two directors and trainee adviser. ABIA

Thursday 9 November 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News Network – Mr Neville John Kakoschke, a former options advisor and stockbroker, was today sentenced in the Adelaide District Court to two-and-a-half years in prison. Mr Kakoschke, of Thorngate in South Australia, was sentenced on 27 forgery charges arising from an investigation by the

WARSAW – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs – Allen & Overy has advised Aegon on the acquisition of a Polish pension company, PTE Ergo Hestia S.A., from Munich Re Group. This represents the first acquisition of a pension company in Poland since the new regulatory authority was introduced through the law on financial market

Receives Humanitarian Award for Charitable, Community Work New York – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – November 10, 2006 – Chadbourne & Parke LLP partner Alan Raylesberg was presented with the Humanitarian Award last night by the Award of Courage Corporation at its Award of Courage Dinner and Auction benefiting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer

By James Castagnera Attorney at Large Columnists write to be read. A sure way to know you’re being read is the “fan” mail. I use that term loosely. A reader needs to get really worked up to bother writing. Usually this means the reader is mad at me. Such was surely the case with last

LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – Christopher M. Kise has been appointed to Florida Governor-elect Charlie Crist’s transition team as Transition Deputy Executive Director. At a news conference on Tuesday, November 8, Crist, along with Lieutenant Governor-Elect Jeff Kottkamp, announced the senior management structure of his transition team, including Kise, who who will

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Mallesons Stephen Jaques has advised Dynasty Property Investments Limited (DPIL), through an issuer, on its US$145 million real estate securitisation, China’s first cross-border commercial mortgage-backed securitisation. The Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Secured Notes are the first of their kind to be backed by onshore Chinese assets, being nine