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Deal Watch: Market woes don't hinder hotel deal
The financial crisis has postponed, if not canceled altogether, many corporate deals, securities offerings and real estate development projects, economists and attorneys have said.But a $134 million hotel development near the Georgia International Convention Center and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was just ahead of the storm.Alston snags outsourcing group to get more global
ALSTON BIRD has raided two partners from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman to establish a global sourcing practice-but rumors that Alston might open offices in London or Germany are premature, said the firm's managing partner, Ben F. Johnson III.Trevor W. Nagel and Lee Van Blerkom joined Alston earlier this month as partners in its Washington office.Battle along North Druid Hills
Stretching about six miles across central DeKalb County, North Druid Hills Road is a mlange of suburban development. A school sits across the road from a Target. Churches are neighbors to strip malls. Driveways turn into office parks, apartment complexes, Starbucks, McDonald's, Kroger and QuikTrip.Traffic on the four-lane street, according to the community's residents and business owners, has been pushed to the limit.Enron's Fall Boosts Billabiles at Alston & Bird
Richmond [email protected] collapse of Enron, the nation's second-largest bankruptcy, is proving lucrative for the attorney and the law firm appointed to investigate how it happened.Neal Batson, the examiner appointed by the court to pick through the debris of financial transactions that led to Enron's fall, has been involved in the case since May.Deal Watch: Weather Channel buyout makes rain for three local firms
Nine Am Law 100 law firms, including Atlanta's Kilpatrick Stockton, Alston Bird and Troutman Sanders, were among the firms involved in the sale of The Weather Channel to a partnership between NBC Universal and two private equity funds.Landmark Communications Inc. of Norfolk, Va., said in January that its Atlanta-based cable-television network was for sale.Judge says GSU and Regents to get legal fees from publishers
A federal judge in Atlanta has ordered publishers who sued Georgia State University and the state Board of Regents over copyright violation claims to pay the state's legal fees and expenses for four years of litigation.Verdicts & Settlements: Murray County judge dumps landfill
AFTER A TRIP through the Supreme Court of Georgia, a complex dispute over a proposed landfill in northwestern Georgia was resolved when a Murray County judge reversed his earlier order, and ruled that the county commissioner and manager were authorized to deny a permit for the new facility-even though the county had, apparently, previously approved the project.In The Trenches: Prosecutor goes private with Schiff Hardin partnership
Byung J. "BJay" Pak has left the U.S. Attorney's Office for a partnership at Schiff Hardin. After almost six years as a federal prosecutor, Pak joined the Chicago firm's Atlanta office April 1 to beef up its white-collar practice."It was a tough thing to leave. It was a wonderful place to work and honorable work," said Pak, who decided he wanted to become a federal prosecutor after Sept.Delta Recruits Giuliani's Firm for Consulting on Chapter 11
Andy [email protected] Air Lines Inc. has paid a consulting firm of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani $2.4 million and expects to pay it another $400,000 per month for advice on working through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.The bills to Giuliani Capital Advisors were disclosed in papers the airline filed with the U.Trending Stories
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