http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: ING 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/135520 In a victory for investors who collect securities settlements from soon-to-be bankrupt companies, noteholders including Alfa SAP and two ING funds will not have to return early payments they received from Enron to the Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. http://www.law360.com/articles/135520 http://www.law360.com/articles/134893 The European Commission signed off on restructuring plans for KBC Group, ING Groep NV and Lloyds Banking Group on Wednesday, providing antitrust clearance for proposals calling for the banks to make significant divestitures and exit the riskier financial markets that contributed to the financial crisis. http://www.law360.com/articles/134893 http://www.law360.com/articles/132058 Dutch financial giant ING Group NV announced Tuesday it will sell three of its U.S. independent retail broker-dealer units to private equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC, just a week after revealing plans to split its banking and insurance divisions and divest all its insurance operations by 2013. http://www.law360.com/articles/132058 http://www.law360.com/articles/131957 On the heels of announcing plans to acquire part of the reinsurance business of an ING Groep NV subsidiary, Reinsurance Group of America Inc. said Tuesday that it would offer public senior notes worth $300 million in order to raise capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/131957 http://www.law360.com/articles/131230 An executive at JPMorgan Chase Bank has said in a sworn statement to a California bankruptcy court that homebuilder Woodside Group LLC violated its credit agreement when it consummated a significant reorganization last year. http://www.law360.com/articles/131230 http://www.law360.com/articles/130868 Residential developer California Coastal Communities Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing a need to extend the maturity dates on $182 million in debt it incurred from a development project. http://www.law360.com/articles/130868 http://www.law360.com/articles/130235 ING Group NV will split its banking and insurance divisions and divest all its insurance operations by 2013, the company said Monday. http://www.law360.com/articles/130235 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/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/128736 ING Groep NV has agreed to sell its U.S. and Canadian reinsurance business to Reinsurance Group of America Inc., in a deal that the Dutch financial giant said Friday would free up €100 million ($149 million) in capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/128736 http://www.law360.com/articles/128540 Dutch finance giant ING Groep NV has agreed to sell its Asian private banking business to Singapore-based Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd. for $1.46 billion in cash, part of ING's continuing effort to slim down operations. http://www.law360.com/articles/128540 http://www.law360.com/articles/126860 Dutch finance giant ING Groep NV plans to sell its Swiss private banking unit to international banking group Julius Baer Group for $505 million in cash as part of a wider strategy to streamline its business. http://www.law360.com/articles/126860 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 http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 TQP Development LLC has dropped ING Groep NV from an ongoing patent infringement lawsuit accusing a slew of major companies — including Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. MetLife Inc., Apple Inc. and eBay Inc. — of infringing its online encrypted data transmission method. http://www.law360.com/articles/125913 http://www.law360.com/articles/124572 Dutch financial services firm ING Groep NV announced Friday it had reached a $1.6 billion deal to sell its stake in its wealth management and insurance businesses in Australia and New Zealand to joint venture partner Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. http://www.law360.com/articles/124572 http://www.law360.com/articles/119940 Citing lack of jurisdiction, a federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action brought by New York teachers against their union alleging it accepted kickback payments from ING Life Insurance and Annuity Co. in exchange for promoting the company's investment plans. http://www.law360.com/articles/119940 http://www.law360.com/articles/117497 It cannot be said with certainty that the integrated employer test will be applied to Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower claims by all courts, the Administrative Review Board or all administrative law judges. But, since the U.S. Department of Labor espouses this test, employers need to be prepared to show how they will pass it when a letter from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration containing a SOX charge comes in the door, say Steven J. Pearlman and Frank Kinson of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/117497 http://www.law360.com/articles/117750 The bankruptcy of real estate investment trust General Growth Properties Inc. warrants attention not only because it is the largest real estate bankruptcy case ever filed, but because of the shadow it cast on the commercial real estate financing world and in particular the already besieged market for commercial mortgage backed securities, say Douglas R. Gooding and John F. Ventola of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/117750 http://www.law360.com/articles/116199 A group of lenders has lost a bid to release several shopping centers from the bankruptcy of mall operator General Growth Properties Inc., which sought Chapter 11 in an effort to deal with an $18.4 billion debt load. http://www.law360.com/articles/116199 http://www.law360.com/articles/109164 A bankruptcy judge has called for a trial to determine the exact role J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. played in a complex web of big-dollar commercial paper transactions between Enron Corp. and other entities in the months leading up to the energy giant's dramatic 2001 collapse. http://www.law360.com/articles/109164