Clifford Chance Elect New Global Corporate Chief

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LawFuel.com – Clifford Chance corporate partners have elected Guy Norman as global leader of the Firm’s Corporate practice, following an uncontested election.  Guy will commence his four year term on 1 May, 2014.

Guy has been a partner in the Corporate practice since 1998 and has recently returned from leading the corporate practice in the Middle East.   Previously he spent a year on secondment as an investment banker at Citi and two years at the UK Takeover Panel as a Senior Regulator.

Matthew Layton, Global Head of the Corporate Practice, said: “Guy is particularly well placed to take on this role. During his years working in our Corporate team in London and the Middle East, and through his secondments into clients and regulators as well as his lead role on a number of major client relationships, Guy has acquired important experience and insights that are invaluable to clients and to our team.  I am confident that under Guy’s leadership our leading international M&A and corporate practice will continue to go from strength to strength.”

Guy Norman said:  “I am delighted to be elected to lead what is, without doubt, an outstanding practice and a highly talented team.  The global reach and leading regional expertise of our Corporate practice means that we are in a unique position to give our clients an international perspective on the challenges and opportunities arising in the increasingly complex global economy.”

Guy has advised on a number of major M&A transactions in recent years including advising Kraft in relation to its successful £11 billion unsolicited offer for Cadbury plc; Barclays on its proposed takeover of ABN Amro and its acquisition of Lehman Brothers North America investment banking and capital markets businesses; Babcock International on its successful £1.32 billion recommended offer for VT Group plc; Anheuser-Busch Inbev on the disposal of its Central and Eastern European business to CVC; and Mannai Corporation QSC on its S$445 million takeover of Damas International Limited, one of the largest ever public offers in the Middle East.

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Missouri Execute a Man in “Callous and Dangerous Game”

/ Featured, US Law / February 26, 2014 / By
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A man convicted for the 1989 abduction, rape and killing of a teenager has been executed in Missouri, offering no final statement and refused a last minute appeal.

Michael Taylor was 47.  His attorney argued for his life on the basis that the drug used to kill him could have caused Taylor inhuman pain and suffering.  His execution was witnessed by two clergymen and family members.

A Missouri inmate was executed early Wednesday for abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager as she waited for her school bus in 1989, marking the state’s fourth lethal injection in as many months.

Taylor was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.As the process began, he took two deep breaths before closing his eyes for the last time. There were no obvious signs of distress.

His victim was 15-year-old Ann Harrison who was abducted by Taylor and Roderick Nunley. The men pulled her into their stolen car, took her to a home, then raped and fatally stabbed the girl.

The debate over the death penalty has been further stirred, with opinions such as this editorial from the Kansas City Star arguing against the penalty and saying Missouri is playing a dangerous and callous game:

While attention has centered on Missouri’s nefarious methods of obtaining execution chemicals, the state has been pushing the limits of decency and legality in another respect.

Legal experts and judges have rebuked the state for its hurry.

“Missouri violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the long litany of cases warning Missouri to stay executions while federal review of an inmate’s constitutional challenge is still pending,” 8th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kermit Bye wrote after the Nicklasson execution.

With stunning arrogance, one of Attorney General Chris Koster’s deputies, David Hansen, told a legislative committee that his office was responding to a strategy of death row inmates to file enough motions for stays of executions to outlast the time spans of death warrants.

That’s not the attorney general’s call. The courts decide when the appeals process has run its course. If Koster is concerned about an inmate’s defense team prolonging the process, he can petition the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse to accept further motions.

Missouri is playing a callous and dangerous game. Its next execution date, for former Kansas Citian Michael Taylor, is Wednesday. If Gov. Jay Nixon continues to refuse to declare a moratorium on executions, the state must at least show respect for the judicial process.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/23/4840977/editorial-missouri-plays-a-dangerous.html#storylink=cpy

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