LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy is advising the sellers of the Eckart group, the German-based speciality chemicals company, on its €630 million acquisition by Altana, the German chemical and pharmaceutical DAX-30 company. Eckart is a world leader in the production of effect pigments for applications such as metallic and pearlescent […]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 4, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Ludger Limited LLC (http://www.ludgerltd.com) and Andrew Barile Consulting Corporation (http://www.abarileconsult.com) announced today the formation of a strategic alliance to provide a professional resource to the international investment community, specifically devoted to reinsurance treaty review and analysis. For the past 20 years

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Aug. 4 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced that the company has successfully taken steps to enforce its approximately $2.5 billion arbitration award against the Turkish cellular phone operator, Telsim Mobil Telekomunikasyon (“Telsim”). On June 13, 2005, a panel of arbitrators from the Zurich Chamber of

HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 3 LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — The law firm of Schatz & Nobel, P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Tokyo – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Partner Atsushi Yamashita and counsel Daniel Hounslow and Angela Krantz from the Tokyo office of the international law firm Clifford Chance advised US private equity giant, Ripplewood Holdings Japan International, on a disposal by one of it’s portfolio companies in Japan. Clifford Chance acted as sole

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), of over-the-counter trading of the securities of Sure Trace Security Corporation (“Sure Trace”) (stock symbol SSTY), a Canadian corporation with principal offices in Vancouver,

New York – (August 3, 2005) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is pleased to announce that Kyra K. Bromley and Carl Riehl, resident in our New York office, have been named Counsel to the firm. Kyra K. Bromley is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice

(August 4, 2005, New York) –LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Steptoe & Johnson LLP has announced that Michael A. Vatis has joined the Technology Department and Appellate Litigation Practice Groups as counsel. He is resident in the firm’s New York City office, effective immediately. Mr. Vatis was awarded a J.D. by Harvard Law

R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Mark Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, announced today the July 28, 2005 Indictment of a Boca Raton doctor on charges of illegal distribution of OxyContin. Defendant, Andrew D. Weiss, a Boca Raton doctor and the operator

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – LawFuel.com’s lead story from the Chicago Sun-Times concerns a former top aide to Mayor Daley linked to City Hall practices under investigation by federal prosecutors and who abruptly resigned from law firm Greenberg Traurig this week.