Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP has announced that Michael T. Frank has joined the firm’s East Palo Alto office as a partner in the firm’s Employee Benefits and Compensation Group. Prior to joining Gray Cary, he was with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the firm’s Menlo Park office. Frank’s practice focuses on employee […]

Allen & Overy’s Corporate Practice today announced the results of the management elections in the UK. Head of Department, Richard Cranfield, has been re-elected unopposed for another four year term. Richard also remains in his role on the Steering Group of the Global Corporate Practice. After a successful three-years, Managing Partner Susan Howard has come

Houston and New York, March 12, 2004 – Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, represented the Prairie View, Texas, Chapter of the NAACP and students from Prairie View A&M University in two civil rights law suits impacting the voting rights of the university students. As a result, Prairie View

Baker & McKenzie Australia has walked away with three awards from the annual Australian Law Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney last Thursday night. The event, attended by over 450 members of the legal fraternity was a stellar occasion for Baker & McKenzie with the firm taking out the awards for Employer

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) was the highest ranking Canadian law firm for M&A’s in 2003 according to U.S.-based Global Securities Information, Inc. (GSI). According to the ranking, Blakes finished in the top 20 of all North American law firms, based on transaction value. For the complete survey results, go to the link below.

Mark Valentine, the former Chairman of Thomson Kernaghan, a Toronto, Canada based brokerage firm, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of securities fraud in United States District Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The announcement was made today by Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent

International law firm Allen & Overy recently advised the mandated lead arranger, Deutsche Bank AG London, on the US$2.345bn and e134.2m senior debt and US$300m and e150m second lien facilities for Invensys International Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Invensys plc, the engineering company. The facilities have been established in connection with the refinancing

International law firm, DLA today announced that it has appointed Julia Graham to head up risk management. Julia, who was formerly group operational risk manager at Royal & SunAlliance, takes over the post from Clive Pracy who retired last year. In 2000 DLA became one of the first law firms to recognise that a structured

Piper Rudnick LLP announces that Ann Hurwitz, a partner in the Franchise and Distribution practice group, will become the managing partner of the firm’s Dallas office. “I’m very enthusiastic about taking on this responsibility,” Ms. Hurwitz said. “We have the substantial resources of a national firm behind us, and both the firm’s management and I

US group Eastman Kodak said it has filed a lawsuit against Sony, accusing the Japanese giant of infringing 10 of its patents on digital photo technology. The suit was filed in a federal court in Rochester, New York, where Kodak is based. Kodak is trying to stop Sony from using the technology as well as