Scotland – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – DLA Piper Scotland LLP has advised the management team on the Phoenix Equity Partners £125m buy-in of Aberdeen based oil and gas services company, Asco Group plc. The deal is said to be one of the largest buy-out deals in Scotland this year. Phoenix Equity […]

CLEVELAND- LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – For a book that only a lawyer could love, ranking 47,369th on Amazon.com’s best-seller list looked pretty good Monday morning. “It was doing way better than my treatise on consolidating state court litigation,” said Cleveland-based Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, author of “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to

Candy is Dandy, but the Internet is Quicker By James Ottavio Castagnera (Jim Castagnera is the Associate Provost and Associate Counsel at Rider University, and the author of a weekly newspaper column, “Attorney at Large.”) American humorist Ogden Nash (1902-1971) is best remembered for his poem “Reflections on Ice Breaking.” Even I, who never mastered

Hong Kong, November 3, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Shearman & Sterling LLP has represented the underwriters Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, China International Capital Corporation Ltd. and ICEA Capital Ltd. in connection with the US$22 billion initial public offering and dual listing of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

LawFuel.com – Legal News, Legal Jobs – LawFuel’s ‘Hot Blawgs’ records that Country singer Sara Evans and her estranged husband Craig Schelske finally faced each other in court since Evans filed for divorce on Oct. 12. After suddenly leaving Dancing With the Stars, Evans accused Schelske of looking at pornography online and has alleged he

Friday 3 November 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Former Assistant Company Secretary of HIH Insurance Limited, Mr Robert Kelly, has been sentenced today in the New South Wales Supreme Court to 500 hours community service in relation to a criminal charge arising from his role in the HIH group of companies.

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – International law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced today that leading Belgian corporate and M&A lawyer Laurent Legein will join the firm as a partner in its Brussels office. Mr. Legein, 38, comes to Cleary Gottlieb from Clifford Chance, where his current practice spans a broad range

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – As part of a part of the Department of Justice’s (“the Department”) Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative, United States Attorney R. Alexander announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Karen Rochlin will once again lead the efforts of the Southern District of Florida in connection with the

LAWFUEL – Law & Business News Network – Herbert Smith has advised Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) on its record-breaking US$19.1 billion flotation. As well as undertaking the world’s biggest IPO, ICBC is also the first company to list simultaneously on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges, a move that is expected