BOSTON – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. has been named #1 Boston Trademark Law Firm for 2004 by NameProtect, a leading trademark research firm. Wolf Greenfield filed the most U.S. trademarks of any Boston firm last year Additionally, Douglas R. Wolf of Wolf Greenfield ranked 24th in 2004 […]

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Cyndi Carter, a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment yesterday in the United States District Court in Tampa, Florida. Carter, age 37, had previously pled guilty in April of this year to one count of bankruptcy fraud and one count of making a

New York, August 4, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The national law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that two attorneys have joined the firm’s New York office as partners. James J. Freedman joins the Real Estate Department and Beth Barash Neuhaus joins the Corporate Department. “Adding these two well-respected

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy advised Dawnay, Day Group and Hilco UK Ltd. on the acquisition of 75 department stores from KarstadtQuelle AG, the leading German department store and mail order company. This transaction represents the investors’ first major corporate acquisition in Germany. Dawnay, Day is a UK-based diversified financial

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Julie Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and John Timoney, Chief, City of Miami Police Department, announced today that defendant, Derrick Robinson, a/k/a “Avery Hines”, and Marlon Rowe, bodyguards for

Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – In an emergency federal court action filed today, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a Temporary Restraining Order against Sonja Anticevic, a Croatian national and resident. The Commission alleges that a securities account in Anticevic’s name engaged in a series of highly

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension of trading of the securities of the following issuers, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), commencing at 9:30 a.m. EDT on August 5, 2005 and terminating at 11.59 p.m. on August

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance CIS limited (Moscow) has advised on the first “true-sale” securitisation in the Russian Federation. Clifford Chance as counsel represented MNB Capital Markets and Greenwich Financial Services as Joint lead managers in connection with the securitisation of the auto loan portfolio originated by Russian bank Soyuz. The

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance, acting as structuring and documentation counsel, has advised Deutsche Bank as joint lead arranger with EFG Telesis Finance S.A. on the first ever revolving credit card securitisation in Greece. This EUR750,000,000 deal is the first credit card securitisation transaction from a Greek bank and the first

4 August 2005, Tokyo – Global law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP has announced that Kenneth Lebrun has relocated to the firm’s Tokyo office as Counsel. Not a newcomer to Japan, Mr. Lebrun had worked for two years in Shearman & Sterling’s Tokyo office in 2000 and 2001. Prior to his return to Tokyo, he