Team Members Bring Strong and Diverse Background to Practice The Silicon Valley intellectual property firm Fernandez & Associates, LLP. is pleased to announce the launch of their Biotech Practice Group. www.iploft.com With its focus on counseling early-stage biotech companies – and the venture investors that support them – Fernandez & Associates specializes in developing and […]

Leading global legal survey Global Counsel 3000 2003-04 has recognised Mallesons Stephen Jaques as one of the Top 50 law firms globally. Additionally, the firm has been ranked as “Australia’s best”. The Global 50 review is compiled as part of Global Counsel’s survey of law firms worldwide and identifies the 50 law firms that: “received

International law firm Denton Wilde Sapte has advised Altadis S.A., the leading European tobacco company, on two substantial financings. The Altadis Group, created through the business combination of Seita and Tabacalera, is one of the leading European tobacco companies, as well as a major player in the wholesale distribution sector. The first financing, a €2.4

Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson + Greaves LLCtoday announced the publication of its “COBRA Compliance Manual.” The manual is authored by firm members Robert S. Phifer and Brian M. Magargle. The “COBRA Compliance Manual” provides detailed, non-technical explanations of the health benefits continuation requirements imposed by federal law on most employer-sponsored health benefits programs. Under those requirements,

The national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) is pleased to announce that Keith Miller has joined K&L’s New York office as a partner. Prior to joining K&L, Miller was a counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP. Miller’s practice focuses on securities and commercial litigation for investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, commercial

New research indicates that the inspection process of care homes, introduced in April 2002 to improve care home standards under the National Care Standards Commission, is failing fundamentally, and that a modified system is needed. This is according to a survey conducted of over 400 care homes in the UK by health and social care

A Santa Monica man pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge of failing to notify United States officials that he was working as an agent of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), as required by U.S. law. John Joungwoong Yai, 59, a naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty this afternoon in United States District

DLA Group member, GÖRG Rechtsanwälte, has hired three partners and a team of lawyers for its newly established Hamburg office. Dr. Klaus von Gierke (Corporate and M&A), Volker Alvensleben (Employment) and Dr. Frank Weberndörfer (Employment), currently partners at German law firm, Luther Menold, will join GÖRG Rechtsanwälte’s new Hamburg office with effect from 1 January

Denton Wilde Sapte’s Dubai office, has advised the Government of Qatar on its inaugural US$700m sovereign Islamic bond Issue. The Issue is listed in Luxembourg and will be listed in Labuan. The Issue is a landmark deal, being the first global Islamic sovereign rated issue in the Middle East. The only other rated global sovereign

The secret administration of the Patriot Act was a matter of serious concern for Americans, according to Washington lawyer and author David Cole. Speaking in an interview with the legal news website LawFuel, Professor Cole, who teaches at Georgetown University and recently wrote the book “Enemy Aliens”, said the Bush administration’s record is so bad