Also Charged Are TV Azteca’s Parent Company, Its Former CEO/Director, and Another Director Washington, D.C., Jan. 4, 2005 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed civil fraud charges against TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. (TV Azteca or the company), a Mexican issuer whose American depository receipts trade […]

St. Louis – 23 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – Bryan Cave LLP announced today that its St. Louis office and world headquarters will remain in downtown St. Louis in the Metropolitan Square Building through 2022. Bryan Cave has entered into a new lease encompassing approximately 225,000 sq. ft. on eight

23 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – A professor at the University of California, Davis, filed suit today in federal court against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking release of historic President’s Daily Briefs given to President Johnson during the Vietnam War. Larry Berman, a political scientist who

Valley Forge, PA, December 23, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – PQ Corporation, a privately-held chemicals and engineered glass materials company, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by JPMorgan Partners, the private equity arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The acquisition is subject to approval

LONDON – 24 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – Arnold & Porter LLP’s London team represented Kraft Foods UK Limited on the sale of Bird’s custard, Angel Delight and associated brands to Premier Foods plc for £70 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2005. The

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 22 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news- The Silicon Valley office of international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has a new managing partner. On January 1, 2005, Craig Adas, a corporate Partner who heads the Silicon Valley office’s Private Equity practice and who has also represented numerous

ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 24 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – Turkcell (NYSE: TKC ; ISE: TCELL), the leading provider of mobile communications in Turkey, announced today that it has settled its interconnection dispute regarding the call termination pricing, for the period between April 1998 and September 2003, with Turk Telekom by an

HATBORO, Pa., Dec. 23 20094 – LAWFUEL – Best for sports news – The Sports Network (“TSN”) announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and ESPN’s subsidiary, SportsTicker, concerning Minor League Baseball data and statistics. After many months of the legal process that accompanies suits of this nature, the parties

Washington DC – 23 December 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), of trading of the securities of ArTec, Inc. (“ATKJ”) a Nevada corporation, at 9:30 a.m. EST on December

NEW YORK, Dec 23 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, represented The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. (RDA) in the closing of the sale of its Pleasantville, NY headquarters property to a joint venture of Greenfield Partners, LLC and Summit Development,