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GMAC Commercial Finance of Southfield, MI has announced that Richard Newman recently joined the company's Equipment Finance Division as vice president of the Capital Funding Group's project finance team, in Houston, TX. Newman, previously with Compass Bank, will now be responsible for managing the division's midstream efforts. Midstream is a term describing energy infrastructure assets such as pipelines, port facilities and small refineries as well as oil and gas gathering equipment.
Stevens & Lee of Philadelphia and Salomon Green & Ostrow of New York have jointly announced merger of their practices effective Jan. 1, 2005. Seven former Salomon Green & Ostrow lawyers, including Chester Salomon, David Green, Alec Ostrow, Nicholas Kajon, Walter Benzija, Jocelyn Keynes and Constantine Pourakis, and two paralegals and related staff, will join Stevens & Lee and will remain in the combined firm's New York City office at Salomon Green's former 485 Madison Avenue location. Salomon Green, a notable bankruptcy boutique firm, has made a reputation representing parties in reorganization and liquidation, trustees, examiners, creditors' committees, landlords, equipment lessors, litigants and asset purchasers in bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and throughout the country. Stevens & Lee is a full service firm with offices in Princeton and Cherry Hill, NJ; Philadelphia, Valley Forge, Reading, Lancaster, Harrisburg, the Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA; Wilmington, DE; and now, New York City.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.