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...Antitrust lawyers in Beijing were befuddled by the Ministry of Commerce's ruling. "From a purely competitive point of view, this would not have affected the [nonalcoholic-beverage] market," says Michael Gu, a lawyer specializing in corporate finance with the Zhong Lun Law Firm. Before the ruling, a source close to the deal from the Coca-Cola side said, "There is just not a competition issue, no matter how you look at it." He called the proposed acquisition a "marriage made in heaven...
...crackdown, requisitioning troops and silencing a leading TV news channel. A senior government minister has resigned in protest over the media clampdown, but President Asif Ali Zardari appears unwilling to negotiate under pressure. And his chief rival, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is pressing ahead with preparations for a lawyer-led protest march due to arrive in the capital of Islamabad on Monday...
...fetching only 20 pence right now. That's left Myerson's stake in the firm worth a measly $2.7 million. Should Myerson be made to pay the $3.5 million in cash he still owes his former wife, she'll have landed 105% of the couple's assets, Myerson's lawyers argued in court Wednesday, and he'll be left hundreds of thousands of dollars in the red. "The freefall in the value of the shares has completely changed the basis on which the case was settled," argued Martin Pointer, Brian Myerson's lawyer...
...Arguing that today's financial market chaos came out of nowhere will be key to Myerson's case. While Pointer, his lawyer, claimed in court recent events were indeed "unforeseeable and unforeseen", Nicholas Mostyn, representing Myerson's ex-wife, hit back that "the present downturn was totally foreseeable and indeed well under way" at the time of the couple's settlement a year ago. Moreover, Mostyn argued, as a fund manager, Brian Myerson knew as well as anyone that shares can go up as well as well as down. "He agreed in exchange for having a majority of the assets...
...Justice spoke about her experiences as a female in the traditionally male-dominated field of law. When she attended Harvard Law School, Ginsburg said, she was one of only nine women in her class, and when she began working as a lawyer, legal gender discrimination was rampant...