Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP has been ranked the highest of only two Canadian law firms represented in the Global Counsel Super League in the area of competition law. The Global Counsel Super League is an independent qualitative assessment of law firm performance in the competition law sector across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America by […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. B Deputy Attorney General James Comey, DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, and IRS Criminal Investigations Chief Nancy Jardini announced the arrests of more than 130 defendants across the United States as part of an investigation dubbed, “Operation Candy Box.” Today’s arrests mark the culmination of a two-year multi-jurisdictional

A two-year investigation dubbed Operation Candy Box has led to two indictments in Los Angeles and today resulted in the arrest of 15 defendants linked to an international ecstacy trafficking ring. The arrests stemming from the Los Angeles indictments are among more than 120 arrests in the United States and Canada resulting from charges brought

International law firm Allen & Overy is advising Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG London, Goldman Sachs International and Morgan Stanley Bank as Mandated Lead Arrangers in relation to EUR1.4 billion Senior Credit Facilities for Valentia Telecommunications in connection with the IPO of eircom Group plc on the London and Irish stock exchanges. London-based

International law firm Allen & Overy is advising ABN AMRO Bank N.V. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., Barclays Capital, Citibank N.A., Crédit Agricole Indosuez, J.P. Morgan plc, Standard Chartered Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Corporation Europe Limited as Mandated Lead Arrangers in relation to US$150,000,000 Revolving Credit Facilities for Kumba Resources Limited. Kumba Resources, headquartered in

New York, NY – March 29, 2004 – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that it has refocused its Private Equity Group. The move comes in order to better capitalize on the Firm’s capabilities in this area by bringing together private equity experts in the New York, Washington, D.C., Houston,

The Tokyo office of international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization, on the formation of a partnership of Japanese companies to feature well-known Sesame Street Muppets, such as Elmo and Big Bird, and new Muppet characters in a local adaptation of the award-winning series Sesame Street. Sesame Street

New York, NY– The national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) is pleased to announce that Mark I. Peroff, founding partner of Trademark & Patent Counselors of America, P.C. (TM&P), and Darren W. Saunders, also a partner at TM&P, have joined the New York office of K&L as partners. Joining Peroff and Saunders

Minter Ellison is acting as lead counsel to Swedish group Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA on its A$890 million acquisition of the ’tissues’ division of New Zealand forestry and wood products group Carter Holt Harvey. The acquisition brings under SCA’s global umbrella operations in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji — which make market-leading brands such as

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, advised Millennium Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: MCH) in its definitive agreement, announced today, with Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE: LYO) for a stock-for-stock business combination of the companies. The transaction will create North America’s third-largest independent, publicly traded chemical producer with combined pro forma 2003