Jean-Marie Messier News
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A year after Vivendi SA began considering a breakup under pressure from investors, Europe’s largest media and telecommunications conglomerate is almost back to where it began.
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Steptoe & Johnson LLP hired Markham Erickson as a partner in the telecom, Internet and media practice in the Washington office. He was previously at Holch & Erickson LLP, a firm he co-founded in 2006.
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Olivier Metzner, one of France’s best-known lawyers, was found dead from an apparent suicide, the prosecutor’s office in the Brittany city of Vannes said.
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Vivendi SA investors asked a Paris court to order former Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Messier and six other former executives, as well as the company, to repay them money lost during a $77 billion acquisition spree.
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Swiss lawmakers approved a UBS AG tax treaty, ending a two-year legal battle with the U.S. that threatened the bank’s American operations.
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Tullett Prebon Plc , the inter-dealer broker, lost a lawsuit accusing competitor BGC Partners Inc. of a hiring raid on 77 of its partners that cost the U.K. firm $387 million in market value.
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Vivendi SA asked a judge in New York today to dismiss a jury’s fraud verdict against the company or cut most of the $9.3 billion in damages sought by shareholders in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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Federal prosecutors in New York have been examining transactions by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., accused of fraud by U.S. securities regulators, to determine whether to pursue a criminal case, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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The U.S. appealed a federal judge’s June 22 order lifting a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling that was imposed after the BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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U.S. citizens and residents with UBS AG accounts are racing the clock to disclose their secret holdings to the Internal Revenue Service after the Swiss Parliament ratified an agreement to surrender the names of 4,450 bank clients, tax lawyers said.
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