Finance Law

HONG KONG, Jun 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Sidley Austin successfully represented Petron Corporation, the Philippines’ largest oil refining and marketing company and a subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation, in connection with the financing of its US$577.3 million acquisition of ExxonMobil’s downstream oil business in Malaysia. The financing transaction included a two-year acquisition bridge loan [...]

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – The Law Society of Upper Canada will present a degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), to renowned trial and appellate lawyer Brian H. Greenspan at its Call to the Bar ceremony in Toronto on June 13. Mr. Greenspan will receive the honour in recognition [...]

A Catholic school in Moorhead terminated a fifth-grade teacher after she told administrators she disagreed with the church’s stance on gay marriage. Trish Cameron was notified June 1 that she wouldn’t be offered a new contract at St. Joseph’s Catholic School. The decision came after Cameron filled out a self-evaluation form in which she admitted [...]

SAN DIEGO, June 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — City National Bank, California and Nevada’s Premier Private and Business Bank®, today announced the appointment of Bruce Ford to regional business banking manager San Diego, California, and Nevada. Ford, who joined City National in 2009 and was recently promoted to senior vice president, assumes this new role [...]

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Singapore to host world-class International Arbitration AcademyPosted: 11 June 2012 2152 hrs           Related News  Video President Tony Tan hosts dinner for ICCA members SINGAPORE – The National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Centre for International Law (CIL) and the NUS Faculty of Law will host the inaugural Singapore International Arbitration Academy [...]

Proposal Follows Members’ Facebook Flap  Follow Your Town News On The Courant’s Manchester Facebook Page By JESSE LEAVENWORTH, leavenworth@courant.com The Hartford Courant 10:27 a.m. EDT, June 11, 2012 The school board will consider filling a gap in its official rules by adding a section on board members’ conduct. The board is slated to meet Monday [...]

London (CNN) — Investors are again pushing up Spain’s borrowing costs despite its move over the weekend to seek a €100 billion ($125 billion) credit line to shore up its troubled banks. European and Asian stocks initially cheered the move but enthusiasm appears to have faded and Spanish bond yields — effectively the cost of [...]

By BusinessGreen staff 11 Jun 2012

By JOE PALAZZOLO and CHELSEA PHIPPS Law schools are experimenting with a novel solution to the nation’s glut of attorneys: mint fewer of them. Faced with a weak job market for lawyers and a dwindling number of applicants, several law schools are cutting the size of their incoming classes, a move legal experts describe as [...]