28 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – Clifford Chance advised BASF, Bayer and Hoechst on the sale of DyStar, the Frankfurt-based manufacturer of textile dyes, to global investment firm Platinum Equity. A corresponding agreement has been signed with the current owners BASF (30 percent share), Bayer (35 percent share) and Hoechst (35 percent share), a subsidiary […]

June 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Douglas Colon, Special Agent in Charge, of the United States Department of Labor, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, announced today that Walter J. Browne, President of the National Federation of Public and Private Employees

May 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Robert Triffin, the most litigious plaintiff in New Jersey history, has been adjudicated a fraud by an Essex County jury through the work of Pitney Hardin LLP partner, Dennis Kearney. Triffin has made a 15 year career of buying bad checks, then suing major New Jersey companies in the

London, 1 June 2004 – LAWFUEL – In an astonishing court room reversal, global law firm Linklaters has turned claims of around US$245 million against their client Petrobras into a US$105 million win. The two related London court cases concern the P36 oil and gas rig, which tragically exploded and sank 190km off Rio de

28 May 2004, New York – LAWFUEL – A New Jersey Superior Court trial judge has dismissed a $1.5 billion contract suit against Starwood Hotels, ITT Corporation, and Sheraton brought by a New Jersey company that claimed it had an exclusive worldwide telecommunications contract with Sheraton Hotels and Caesars casinos. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

WASHINGTON, DC – June 2, 2004– LAWFUEL – Continuing the expansion of its intellectual property practice, international law firm Crowell & Moring LLP has added two partners to its more than 40-lawyer roster of IP lawyers. Michael J. Songer, a former partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, and Mark M. Supko, a former partner at

PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2004 – LAWFUEL – GlaxoSmithKline has acted responsibly in conducting clinical studies in pediatric patients and disseminating data from those studies. All pediatric studies have been made available to the FDA and regulatory agencies worldwide. We have publicly communicated data from all pediatric studies. As for the 1998 memo, it is inconsistent

LEBANON, Tenn., June 1, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The president and chief operating officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., today praised law enforcement officials in Virginia for the investigation that resulted in the arrest of a woman who tried to extort money from the company by claiming she found a mouse in her

NEW YORK, June 1, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Kenneth H. C. Willig, chair of the Project Finance practice group of Piper Rudnick LLP, and his wife Rosette Willig have established the Rosette & Kenneth Willig Endowed Scholarship Fund at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Piper Rudnick has announced. The fund will endow scholarships for

NEW YORK, June 1, 2004- LAWFUEL – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, announced that E. Norman Veasey, former Chief Justice of Delaware, joined the firm today as a senior partner. Veasey will serve as a strategic adviser to the firm’s roster of prominent global clients on a wide