Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
A federal judge has rejected a bid by a dozen Wall Street firms and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to ease restrictions on some communications between research analysts and investment bankers prohibited by a 2003 settlement.Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco has sued several securities dealers — including units of Bank of America Corp., Credit Suisse Group AG and Deutsche Bank AG — in a bid to have $19.1 billion of residential mortgage-backed securities refunded.Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
Medtronic Inc. is planning to offer $3 billion of debt in a three-part sale, a move the medical device giant said would help generate cash for working capital and general corporate purposes, including possibly paying down its indebtedness.Friday, Mar 12, 2010
Dutch chemical company LyondellBasell Industries NV has announced that subsidiary Lyondell Chemical Co. will raise $3.25 billion through a first priority debt offering in order to finance its exit from bankruptcy.Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
A bankruptcy judge has given the green light to LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA's $450 million deal with its unsecured creditors that resolves their objections to a settlement between the debtor and the lenders that financed the 2007 acquisition of Lyondell Chemical Co. by Basell Polyolefins, clearing the way for the Dutch chemical giant to leave Chapter 11.Monday, Mar 08, 2010
Dutch chemical giant LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA has filed a new disclosure statement that reflects a recent settlement with its unsecured creditors, rejecting a buyout bit from India’s Reliance Industries Ltd.Monday, Mar 08, 2010
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. announced Monday that it would buy BHF Asset Serving GmbH for €253 million ($343 million) from European banks Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. SCA and BHF-Bank AG.Thursday, Mar 04, 2010
A federal judge has denied Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.'s bid to force Deutsche Bank AG into arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as US Airways seeks to force the investment firm to buy back some $250 million in auction rate securities.Tuesday, Mar 02, 2010
Plaintiffs have challenged the dismissal of two putative class actions accusing Citigroup Inc., UBS AG, Bank of America Corp., The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and several other financial firms of violating antitrust laws in their presentation and marketing of auction rate securities.Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. has agreed in separate deals with Massachusetts and New York officials to pay about $35 million to reimburse auction rate securities investors who suffered when the market dried up.Monday, Feb 22, 2010
It has often been said that Hollywood relies on newer and bigger tellings of old stories. With federal officials pursuing a new wave of high-profile insider trading cases, it appears that the government is following a similar pattern, according to a report by Morrison & Foerster LLP.Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Facing scrutiny from Italy's competition regulator, Assicurazioni Generali SpA has agreed to terminate a shareholder pact with Credit Agricole relating to a merger that created the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo SpA.Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Landlords have traditionally been reluctant to perform energy-efficiency retrofits on buildings because most of the cost savings go to tenants, but environmental advocates and lawyers are finding ways to resolve this so-called split incentive through the green leasing movement.Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
Akamai Technologies Inc. has slapped Deutsche Bank AG with a lawsuit seeking to recover $217 million Akamai says was "wrongfully" invested in auction rate securities by a Deutsche Bank subsidiary.Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010
LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA has reached a deal with its unsecured creditors that resolves their objections to a settlement between the debtor and the lenders that financed the 2007 acquisition of Lyondell Chemical Co. by Basell Polyolefins, clearing the way for LyondellBasell to leave Chapter 11.Monday, Feb 08, 2010
A federal judge has awarded E-Trade Financial Corp. and E-Trade Bank $5.5 million in attorneys’ fees for their breach of contract claim over their $60 million purchase of a Deutsche Bank AG special purpose entity.Friday, Feb 05, 2010
A federal judge has rejected bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas Holdings LLC’s attempts to appeal one ruling moving a dispute with its lenders out of bankruptcy court and another finding that lenders' decisions to cut off financing to the company's casino resort project might have been reasonable.Friday, Feb 05, 2010
Bank of America NA has called on a federal judge to toss breach of contract suits filed by Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas Mortgage Corp., which have accused the bank of botching its job to guard more than a billion dollars in collateral that backed a mortgage investment facility.Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
Kraft Foods Inc. on Thursday launched a four-part offering of $9.5 billion in notes to help finance its $19 billion acquisition of U.K. confectioner Cadbury PLC.Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
Bankrupt packaging company Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has asked a judge to allow it to enter into a $650 million revolving credit facility deal as part of an exit financing package designed to serve the company’s cash needs as it emerges from Chapter 11 protection.| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next 10 Pages |