Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading full-service business law firms, today announced that tax litigator David Spiro will be joining the Firm’s Tax Group in Toronto. Mr. Spiro was an associate at Blakes from 1989 to 1991 before moving to the Ontario Regional Office of the Department of Justice Canada, where […]

Steptoe & Johnson LLP announced today that Steptoe will acquire the Brussels practice of Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP — a premier group of regulatory specialists with years of experience in solving commercial problems in Europe. This established group of 3 partners, 1 Counsel and three associates augments and complements Steptoe’s U.S. and European Union

A new national poll released today by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute indicates a majority of Americans are not in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. While 41.8% favor a U.S. Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages as proposed by President Bush, 47.1% are opposed to such an amendment. However, 49.0% report being

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) is pleased to announce that the following 16 attorneys have recently been elected to join the law firm’s partnership, effective March 1, 2004. Phoebe S. Winder and George J. Zornada have been named partners in our Boston office. Ms. Winder focuses her practice on commercial litigation. Mr. Zornada practices in

An Orange County man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud charges in connection with an Internet auction fraud scheme and a second plot to defraud a bank out of $400,000. Cole Bartiromo, 19, of Mission Viejo, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon before United States District Judge John F. Walter in Los Angeles. Bartiromo pleaded

Cleary Gottlieb is representing a consortium led by The Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Corsair Fund in their sale of a controlling stake in KorAm Bank Co., Ltd. to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citigroup Inc. The deal, signed today in Seoul, is valued at $2.71 billion and includes a

Steptoe & Johnson LLP has elected Roger E. Warin as the new Chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee and Douglas G. Green as the Committee’s Vice-Chair, effective March 1. They will succeed J.A. “Lon” Bouknight and Mike Kail in these positions of leadership. “We are pleased that Roger and Doug are taking over the reins

Skadden is representing North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. in its acquisition of GreenPoint Financial Corporation, a $23 billion bank holding company, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion. Upon completion, North Fork will have over $50 billion in assets and a market capitalization of almost $14 billion, and will become the largest regional bank

A Mission Hills man has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in an identity theft case in which he used credit card and other information stolen from customers of Six Flags Magic Mountain to make unauthorized purchases, Nicholas E. Dean, 24, a Pierce College student, was sentenced Wednesday by United States District Judge

Cravath represented Pfleiderer AG in the sale of its U.S. affiliate Newmark International, Inc. to Valmont Industries, Inc. for approximately $115 million (USD). Partners who worked on this matter included Mark I. Greene on corporate issues and Lewis R. Steinberg on tax issues. The deal was announced on February 24, 2004.