Leading law firm Charles Russell’s corporate department has advised brokers Collins Stewart on a proposed placing for AIM-listed Media Square plc. Media Square is raising up to £10.6 million through the placing, conditional, amongst other things, on shareholder approval at a general meeting to be held on April 30 2004. Simon Gilbert, head of corporate […]

On Thursday, April 1, Skadden, Arps announced that seven associates and six counsel have been named partners. The new partners are based in eight different offices: Lauren E. Aguiar, New York Jody J. Brewster, Washington David S. Clancy, Boston Kimberly A. deBeers, Chicago Frederic Depoortere, Brussels Christopher J. Gunther, New York Susan S. Hassan, Chicago

NEW YORK, April 9 The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP announces that a class action lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York on April 9, 2004, on behalf of purchasers of the securities of the MFS family of mutual funds (the “Funds”), between January 1, 2001 and

Halloran & Sage Products Liability and Risk Management Partner Bruce H. Raymond will be participating as a speaker at the 2004 DRI Joint International Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Raymond will focus his presentation on the area of Construction Defect Litigation, and will • Explore the current problems facing the construction and insurance industries in

Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Brian J. Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging John L. “Jack” London,

International law firm Allen & Overy advised H&R WASAG AG, Salzbergen, on the purchase of the worldwide special refinery activities of mineral oil company BP. This follows on from Allen & Overy advising the company on the acquisition of the European BP special refinery ranges in October 2003. In both transactions, Allen & Overy worked

The Spam Act will come into force on 10 April 2004, prohibiting the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages that have an Australian link. The impact on some Australian business practices could be substantial, according to Duncan Giles, Special Counsel at Freehills, as not only will they risk significant fines (of up to $1.1 million

Clifford Chance appoints 18 new partners Clifford Chance, the international law firm, today announced the promotion of 18 lawyers to the partnership, from the firm’s 32-office global network. The total number of partners at Clifford Chance from 1 May 2004 will be 641. Emma Davies, a Corporate lawyer based in Shanghai, and Frances Wong, a

Halloran & Sage Environmental Law and Land Use Partner David B. Losee has been appointed for a four year term, to the 18-member National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (“Council”) of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) by Tommy G. Thompson, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mr. Losee joins five other

New York, April 8, 2004—Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, will sponsor a Tuesday, April 13, 2004, luncheon seminar on recent developments in the intersection of celebrity publicity rights, the First Amendment and defamation. The seminar, which is designed for in-house counsel, will be held from 12:30 p.m. to