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Morgan Chase Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 A judge has tossed all claims against Constar International Inc., citing its filing for Chapter 11 protection, in a consolidated securities fraud class action alleging the plastic container maker and several financial firms made misleading statements to investors about Constar's 2002 initial public offering. http://www.law360.com/articles/132757 http://www.law360.com/articles/132813 A New York state appellate court has reinstated Amaranth LLC's tortious interference claims but killed a breach-of-contract claim against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a suit claiming the bank derailed the hedge fund's major business deals, leading to its 2006 collapse. http://www.law360.com/articles/132813 http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has asked a bankruptcy court to modify the automatic stay for Washington Mutual Inc. to allow the agency — the receiver for WaMu's banking unit — to compel JPMorgan Chase & Co. to turn over roughly $4 billion in deposits while the three figure out to whom the money belongs. http://www.law360.com/articles/132687 http://www.law360.com/articles/132593 Investment firm TPG Capital LP and Canada-based pension manager CPP Investment Board will acquire IMS Health Inc., a provider of market intelligence to the health care and pharmaceutical industries, in a leveraged buyout deal valued at $5.2 billion. http://www.law360.com/articles/132593 http://www.law360.com/articles/132508 A federal appeals court has upheld the New York Stock Exchange LLC's $100,000 fine against a former JPMorgan Securities Inc. investment banker for passing along confidential merger information to an employee at Bank of America Corp., where he was scheduled to take a job after the merger. http://www.law360.com/articles/132508 http://www.law360.com/articles/132422 JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay more than $720 million to put to rest claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of improper payments intended to procure business involving municipal bond offerings and swap agreement transactions in Jefferson County, Ala. http://www.law360.com/articles/132422 http://www.law360.com/articles/132203 Lakeside Steel Inc. has lost its bid to buy out Barzel Industries Inc., with stalking horse bidder Chriscott USA Inc. winning court approval to purchase the bankrupt metal processing company's assets for $75 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132203 http://www.law360.com/articles/132156 A federal jury has ruled that Former New York Stock Exchange President Gerald Putnam and two others defrauded a former business partner out of millions of dollars related to the development of electronic stock exchange Archipelago Holdings LLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/132156 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/131928 A federal judge has granted a dozen energy companies' request that he review his ruling on the scope of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's jurisdiction related to claims raised by Kansas plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to fix wholesale natural gas prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/131928 http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 Private equity firm TPG Capital has purchased a majority stake in natural gas services company Valerus Compression Services LLP for $500 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132042 http://www.law360.com/articles/132052 Ocwen Financial Corp. has dropped its claims against Citigroup Global Markets Inc., formerly known as Salomon Smith Barney Inc., in a case where Ocwen and another firm alleged Citigroup left them stranded with about $120 million in illiquid, student loan-backed auction rate securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/132052 http://www.law360.com/articles/131764 The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Metaldyne Corp. bankruptcy has asked the court to toss an appeal from BDC Finance LLC, which claims the auction was really a gussied-up private mergers and acquisitions negotiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131764 http://www.law360.com/articles/131720 Oil exploration and production company Denbury Resources Inc. has announced a $4.5 billion deal to buy Encore Acquisition Co. in a definitive merger agreement to be underwritten by JPMorgan Chase & Co. http://www.law360.com/articles/131720 http://www.law360.com/articles/131582 A New York judge has ruled that policies Twin City Fire Insurance Co. provided to JPMorgan Chase & Co. require the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. unit to pay the banking giant nearly $22 million toward its roughly $2.3 billion in settlements with bondholders of defunct WorldCom Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/131582 http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 A federal appeals court has upheld the certification of a securities class action claiming that Constar International Inc. and several financial firms misled investors about the plastic container manufacturer’s 2002 initial public offering by touting the company as strong and competitive when its business was allegedly deteriorating. http://www.law360.com/articles/131409 http://www.law360.com/articles/131213 JPMorgan Chase NA has lashed out against an appeal by a group of paper carriers who settled a class action against the newspaper publisher in 2008 of a bankruptcy court's decision to allow Freedom Communications Holdings Inc. to use prepetition lenders' cash collateral in the company's Chapter 11 case. http://www.law360.com/articles/131213 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/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/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