http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Barclays 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/134868 Just one day before a hearing, a group of creditors threw their support behind a Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. plan to restructure the loan terms on its faltering real estate portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/134868 http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 The bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has sued Barclays Capital Inc., claiming the investment division of Barclays Bank PLC improperly reaped a $5 billion windfall in breach of their asset purchase contract when it hurriedly scooped up Lehman assets last fall. http://www.law360.com/articles/134578 http://www.law360.com/articles/133854 Lehman Brothers Inc. has returned more than $110 billion to customers of the failed bank over the past six months as part of “the largest and most complex stockbroker liquidation ever attempted,” according to the trustee supervising the distribution. http://www.law360.com/articles/133854 http://www.law360.com/articles/133023 Employers in the financial services industry have been particularly hard hit recently by claims that many of their most highly paid employees have been misclassified as exempt. Identifying any issues, and addressing them head on, prior to litigation can save thousands, if not millions, of dollars, say Randy Gidseg, Stephen Jones and Joseph Carello of Nixon Peabody LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/133023 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/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/132326 Wachovia Corp. and the underwriters and auditor of 30 of the company's public offerings have denounced a consolidated class action alleging they downplayed Wachovia’s parlous subprime exposure when selling some $35 billion bond class securities. http://www.law360.com/articles/132326 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/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/131737 Huntsman Corp. has inched closer to closing its proposed $415 million acquisition of bankrupt Tronox Inc.'s assets following the expiration of the U.S. antitrust waiting period on the deal, the stalking horse bidder said Monday amid continuing objections to the deal in Tronox's Chapter 11 proceedings. http://www.law360.com/articles/131737 http://www.law360.com/articles/131365 The collapse of the nation’s housing market hasn’t done much good for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which is asking a federal bankruptcy court to sign off on a bid to restructure the loan terms on its faltering real estate portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/131365 http://www.law360.com/articles/131245 Cott Beverages Inc. is planning a private offering of $200 million in senior notes due in 2017 to fund a tender offer of its senior subordinated notes due in 2011. http://www.law360.com/articles/131245 http://www.law360.com/articles/130703 A group of creditors has asked the judge overseeing Tronox Inc.'s bankruptcy proceedings to force the chemical company to accept an alternative debtor-in-possession financing plan they say would delay sale proceedings and potentially provide more return for creditors. http://www.law360.com/articles/130703 http://www.law360.com/articles/128635 Bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has already paid out $402.9 million in fees and expense reimbursements to attorneys, financial advisers and other consultants, a newly filed report shows. http://www.law360.com/articles/128635 http://www.law360.com/articles/128187 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is asking a court to order payment processing company First Data Corp. to produce information about a terminated interest rate swap agreement between the two companies, under which Lehman claims it is owed more than the $14 million First Data has paid. http://www.law360.com/articles/128187 http://www.law360.com/articles/125091 Station Casinos Inc. has objected to a proposed probe by its unsecured creditors into the transactions that transformed the now-bankrupt casino operator from a public to a private entity, contending that it already has spent $3 million investigating the going-private deals. http://www.law360.com/articles/125091 http://www.law360.com/articles/124759 Abbott Laboratories plans to buy the pharmaceutical business of Belgium's Solvay Group for $6.6 billion in cash in a move to expand its presence in key emerging markets and diversify its drug portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/124759 http://www.law360.com/articles/124736 General Electric Capital Corp. has asked for a $1.35 million fee to be carved out for it from bankrupt plastic film and packaging manufacturer Pliant Corp. should the bankruptcy court approve Pliant's plan to switch its exit financier of choice from GE to Barclays Capital. http://www.law360.com/articles/124736 http://www.law360.com/articles/124539 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., its unsecured creditors and the trustee appointed to oversee the liquidation of Lehman's broker-dealer subsidiary have asked a court to unseal findings of their investigation of Barclays PLC's acquisition of the subsidiary. http://www.law360.com/articles/124539