NEW YORK & CHICAGO-June 23, 2005– LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – These are the best of times for merger and acquisitions professionals, according to a recent survey of 1,590 dealmakers by Thomson Financial and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development, and mergers […]

ATLANTA, June 23 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Partner Rachel Iverson has been chosen to serve as the President-elect of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta. Founded in 1922, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta has 1,700 members. It has grown from a small coalition of lawyers determined to

WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 22 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — MEI announced that its parent company Mars Inc. filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey against Japan Cash Machine Co. Ltd. of Japan (JCM) and its subsidiary JCM American Corp. alleging infringement of the company’s protected rights to several

22 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network Lovells is boosting its Dutch and international banking practice with the hire of the former head of Houthoff Buruma’s finance practice, Matthieu van Sint Truiden. Matthieu will join the firm, based in Amsterdam, at the end of this month. He will be a dedicated banking partner

PHILADELPHIA, June 22 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — The law firm of Spector, Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. announces that a securities class action lawsuit was commenced in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of OCA, Inc. (“OCA” or the

22 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and David W. Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office, announced today that defendant, Gary L. Straus, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced

New York, June 22, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP successfully represented Novartis Animal Health US, Inc. (“Novartis USA”) in its action against LM Connelly & Sons and National Pet Supplies, Australian businesses that sell Novartis pet medicines made for the Australian market through various Internet websites. The

22 June 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP’s Corporate Group has advised Property Recycling Group plc on its admission to AIM raising £7.5 million through a placing with a number of UK institutions. 15 million new Ordinary shares of 5p at 50p per share began trading

22 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Blackwell Sanders represented Tortoise Energy Capital Corporation, a closed-end management investment company, in its $350 million initial public offering of 14 million shares of common stock at $25 per share. The Blackwell Sanders team included Steve Carman, Eric Gervais, Dan Peterson, Jason Reschly, Kirstin Salzman

NEW YORK, NY — June 21, 2005 – LAWFUEL – Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented a consortium led by Chile’s state oil company, ENAP, in connection with an agreement to finance, build and operate a US$430 million delayed coker unit at its Aconcagua refinery in Chile. The project will be financed by a US$410 million,