http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Credit Suisse Group Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135132 The Blackstone Group's Pinnacle Foods Group LLC has reached a definitive agreement to purchase frozen food giant Birds Eye Foods Inc. for $1.3 billion. http://www.law360.com/articles/135132 http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 Former Refco Inc. auditor Grant Thornton LLP and outside counsel Mayer Brown LLP have moved for a second time to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by the trustee overseeing Refco Inc.’s bankruptcy proceedings in response to allegations that they knew about the financial firm’s massive fraud scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/134085 http://www.law360.com/articles/133326 Technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. said Monday it would sell off three series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount of $5 billion. http://www.law360.com/articles/133326 http://www.law360.com/articles/132456 A California appeals court has cast doubt on whether Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Capital LLC has a stake in payments made to a law firm by a convicted Ponzi schemer, reversing a ruling that such payments are subject to a lien imposed in association with a $16.8 million judgement the financial services company won. http://www.law360.com/articles/132456 http://www.law360.com/articles/131868 Cooley Godward Kronish LLP has snagged Babak Yaghmaie — former head of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's venture capital practice — for its business and technology group. http://www.law360.com/articles/131868 http://www.law360.com/articles/130882 Mayer Brown LLP is adding two leveraged finance partners, Jacqueline Evans from Allen & Overy LLP and John Clark from Clifford Chance LLP, to its burgeoning London office, the firm announced Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/130882 http://www.law360.com/articles/129813 Financial investment giant UBS Securities LLC has asked a federal judge to block several Swiss investors from pursuing $40 million in claims in a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration proceeding related to losses from the massive HealthSouth Corp. fraud. http://www.law360.com/articles/129813 http://www.law360.com/articles/129630 Commercial truck maker Navistar International Corp. has announced plans to issue $1.5 billion in notes to repay loans. http://www.law360.com/articles/129630 http://www.law360.com/articles/129370 Roche International Ltd. has hit Credit Suisse Group AG with a lawsuit in the U.S. alleging the bank's brokers fraudulently invested more than $545 million of the Swiss drugmaker's funds into risky auction rate securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/129370 http://www.law360.com/articles/127455 A trustee for bankrupt lender American Business Financial Services Inc., which funded its business by publicly selling notes, has reached settlements totaling $100 million with JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse Group AG over their alleged role in the failed company's demise. http://www.law360.com/articles/127455 http://www.law360.com/articles/127415 A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss a shareholder action against GT Solar International Inc. concerning the company's $500 million initial public offering last year and its stock's fall from grace the very next day. http://www.law360.com/articles/127415 http://www.law360.com/articles/126735 A federal judge has approved a $586 million settlement in a massive securities case accusing banks, including Credit Suisse Group AG and Morgan Stanley, of rigging initial public offerings during the 1990s tech bubble, and has awarded plaintiffs' attorneys $217 million in fees and expenses. http://www.law360.com/articles/126735 http://www.law360.com/articles/126591 Australian bulk grain handler GrainCorp Ltd. has announced it will acquire United Malt Holdings Ltd. for $655 million, in an effort to make its revenue stream “more robust.” http://www.law360.com/articles/126591 http://www.law360.com/articles/125668 Satellite and networking systems producer ViaSat Inc. has announced that it will acquire privately held broadband service provider WildBlue Communications Inc. for $568 million in cash and stocks, in an effort to strengthen its place in the high-speed Internet service sector. http://www.law360.com/articles/125668 http://www.law360.com/articles/125297 Accretive Health Inc., which manages revenue cycles for doctors and hospitals, has announced that it plans to raise as much as $200 million in an initial public offering. http://www.law360.com/articles/125297 http://www.law360.com/articles/125514 Broker-dealers accused of fixing fees charged for naked short-selling are not under the purview of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but are liable to antitrust laws, an attorney for trading firm Electronic Trading Group LLC told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/125514 http://www.law360.com/articles/125144 A federal judge has dismissed a proposed securities class action accusing Credit Suisse and some of its leaders of not disclosing its risk associated with subprime lending, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the court had subject matter jurisdiction. http://www.law360.com/articles/125144 http://www.law360.com/articles/124799 A group of defendants, including Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Credit Suisse Securities LLC and H&R Block Financial Advisors, has asked a judge to dismiss it from a consolidated proposed securities class action alleging bankrupt Colonial BancGroup Inc. misled investors about its subprime lending practices. http://www.law360.com/articles/124799 http://www.law360.com/articles/124550 Hedge fund manager Alki Partners LP has accused a group of investors — including noted young German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst — and Credit Suisse Group AG of engaging in a “classic pump and dump” scheme by manipulating the stock price of criminal monitoring device company RemoteMDX Inc., costing the fund more than $10 million in losses. http://www.law360.com/articles/124550 http://www.law360.com/articles/124421 State and federal regulators warned lawmakers Thursday that life settlements — financial products that allow people to cash in on their life insurance policies by selling them to a third party — need more scrutiny. http://www.law360.com/articles/124421