April 7, 2004 – Cleary Gottlieb won antitrust clearance from the European Commission for an alliance between client Alitalia and Air France, which will permit extensive cooperation between the airlines, particularly on routes between France and Italy. The cooperation includes joint network planning, joint sales, joint pricing, and cooperation in frequent flyer programs and cargo […]

The corporate finance team at leading law firm Charles Russell has advised Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited on the largest AIM listing so far this year. Partner Clive Hopewell led the Charles Russell team, along with associate Adam Dowdney and assistant Dominic Keenan, in the listing of NETeller plc which was admitted on to AIM today

A Yorba Linda man and six others involved with a tax preparation service were indicted today on federal charges related to the preparation of thousands of federal income tax returns that fraudulently sought an estimated $47 million in refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. A federal grand jury in Santa Ana returned a 23-count indictment

Jeffry L. Weiler, of the law firm Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, is the recipient of the Distinguished Estate Planner Award for 2004 presented by The Estate Planning Council of Cleveland. The Council is an organization of approximately 500 estate planning professionals including attorneys, accountants, bankers, financial planners and insurance advisors. The award will

Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, & Aronoff LLP’s national Health Care Practice Group recently acted as health care regulatory counsel in connection with the investment of General Atlantic Partners, LLC in MultiPlan Inc., a nationwide preferred provider organization, and MultiPlan Inc.’s subsequent purchase of the US preferred provider organization operations of BCE Emergis Corp.

5 April 2004 – Linklaters has appointed Pim Horsten, a highly regarded Dutch capital markets partner, to its Amsterdam office. Pim, formerly a partner at Allen & Overy, has more than ten years of experience in a broad range of capital markets work including debt, equity-linked, equities and derivatives, as well as regulatory advice for

Stikeman Elliott LLP is the top-ranked Canadian law firm for Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Market deals during the first quarter in 2004, according to Bloomberg’s newly-released 2004 Canada M&A and Capital Market Results. Stikeman Elliott claimed the number one position by advising on transactions with a total volume of US $1,779 million, comprising 10.7%

A man who operates a website based on the science fiction television series “Stargate SG-1” made his first court appearance in Los Angeles yesterday on charges of streaming pirated copies of the show over the Internet. Adam Clark McGaughey, 35, of Cincinnati, Ohio, operated a website based on Stargate SG-1. As early as 2001, McGaughey

New Jersey, March 22 2003 was the best year ever for some class action lawyers and with the $325MM settlement in the Global Crossing case, 2004 is also shaping up as an excellent year for these attorneys, but many class action firms’ legal fees were down in 2003. Several of these firms used RD Legal

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 30 Law firms and corporate legal departments will be hiring more attorneys in the next 12 months, a new survey shows. Sixty-two percent of lawyers polled said they will be adding staff in the coming year. This is an increase over last year when 52 percent of attorneys said they planned