http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Morgan Stanley Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132872 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation has begun to take shape, with the announcement Thursday of two new counsel and one senior policy adviser. http://www.law360.com/articles/132872 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/130159 The U.S. Supreme Court could attach a new application to the Mobile-Sierra doctrine Tuesday when it hears oral arguments from major players in the energy field on how to assess contract rate challenges made by noncontracting parties. http://www.law360.com/articles/130159 http://www.law360.com/articles/130881 Cereal giant Kellogg Co. is planning a cash tender offer to purchase up to $500 million of its senior notes due in 2011. http://www.law360.com/articles/130881 http://www.law360.com/articles/130339 Network management company SolarWinds Inc., which reported record total revenue for the third quarter of 2009, plans to offer up to 11.5 million shares of common stock worth $227.8 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.law360.com/articles/130339 http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 Following in the footsteps of numerous other banks, Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries have reached a truce with TQP Development LLC in a patent infringement suit over technology for online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129451 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/129230 Investment management company Invesco Ltd. has reached an agreement with Morgan Stanley to purchase the bank's retail asset management business for $1.5 billion in cash and stock. http://www.law360.com/articles/129230 http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and two of its subsidiaries have become the latest defendants to reach a settlement with TQP Development LLC in one of its ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/129267 http://www.law360.com/articles/128914 China Sunergy Co. Ltd. — along with its executives and underwriters including Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc. — has agreed to a $1 million settlement in a consolidated class action alleging the solar power company made misleading statements in connection with an initial public offering. http://www.law360.com/articles/128914 http://www.law360.com/articles/128644 A federal judge on Thursday dismissed with prejudice breach of contract and tortious interference claims in a putative class action accusing Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., Moody's Investors Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Rating Services of deceiving investors by disseminating false information about a big-dollar investment. http://www.law360.com/articles/128644 http://www.law360.com/articles/128610 American International Group Inc. expects to see a loss of around $1.4 billion on the sale of its Taiwanese life insurance unit, the insurer said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday. http://www.law360.com/articles/128610 http://www.law360.com/articles/127985 U.S. power producer Calpine Corp. plans to offer $750 million in senior secured notes in a private placement to holders of term loans under the company's existing credit facility. http://www.law360.com/articles/127985 http://www.law360.com/articles/127961 Private oil and gas producer Chaparral Energy Inc. has announced plans to go public in a $1.8 billion merger with United Refining Energy Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. http://www.law360.com/articles/127961 http://www.law360.com/articles/127918 American International Group Inc. plans to sell off its Taiwanese life insurance unit for $2.15 billion to a consortium of investors headed up by Hong Kong-based financial services firm Primus Financial Holdings Ltd., the biggest divestiture the troubled insurance giant has made since the U.S. government threw it a $182.5 billion lifeline. http://www.law360.com/articles/127918 http://www.law360.com/articles/127818 Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. has asked a federal judge to toss securities fraud claims brought against it by AshThree LLC and Ashland Inc., stating that the plaintiffs knew the risks associated with the acquisition of the auction rate securities at issue and that their suit failed to prove the willfulness necessary to make a fraud claim against Morgan Stanley. http://www.law360.com/articles/127818 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/127151 Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro ASA has issued $900 million in 2.90 percent notes due in October 2014. http://www.law360.com/articles/127151 http://www.law360.com/articles/127114 A Florida appeals court has turned down billionaire Ronald Perelman's bid to retry a $1.6 billion case against Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. over the sale of camping supply manufacturer Coleman Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/127114 http://www.law360.com/articles/126832 TQP Development LLC has reached a settlement agreement with Capital One Financial Corp. and two subsidiaries, potentially releasing the group from one of several ongoing and wide-ranging patent infringement suits over a TQP technology governing online encrypted data transmissions. http://www.law360.com/articles/126832