http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: NYSE Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135595 NYSE Euronext, LCH.Clearnet, BATS Global Markets and several other financial institutions have asked the House Financial Services Committee to scrap a proposal for a “rigid cap” on dealer ownership of over-the-counter derivative clearinghouses that are part of the overall financial regulatory overhaul, according to reports. http://www.law360.com/articles/135595 http://www.law360.com/articles/135492 MPC Corp., a small business computer services provider that filed for bankruptcy protection earlier in November, has filed a Chapter 11 liquidation plan that calls for all secured claims to be repaid in full and a possibility for unsecured claimants to be paid back with interest. http://www.law360.com/articles/135492 http://www.law360.com/articles/135021 Medtronic Inc. announced Wednesday that it had received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding an inspection of its heart rhythm device facility over problems the agency found at the unit’s corporate headquarters. http://www.law360.com/articles/135021 http://www.law360.com/articles/134830 Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. has disclosed that it will spin off AOL Inc. as a separate company, thus ending the companies' disastrous nine-year marriage. http://www.law360.com/articles/134830 http://www.law360.com/articles/134313 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has said it plans to split off its 83 percent stake in infant-formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition Co., a move the drugmaker said will allow it to focus on its biopharmaceutical business. http://www.law360.com/articles/134313 http://www.law360.com/articles/133880 Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera and Russian conglomerate Alfa Group announced Thursday that they would form a new U.S.-listed company by combining their ownership stakes in two cell phone operators — a move that could help the companies resolve ongoing legal disputes. http://www.law360.com/articles/133880 http://www.law360.com/articles/120814 The next wave of deals will come from small to midmarket firms with transactions in the range of $250 million to $1 billion, but there will be a general reluctance to do major transactions, says Martin H. Neidell, a partner in Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP's corporate practice group. http://www.law360.com/articles/120814 http://www.law360.com/articles/131940 In response to calls for reform, legislators and federal regulators have been stepping up efforts to demand that shareholders have a stronger voice in the corporate governance of U.S. public companies. A recent example is the Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009, say Nichole Browning and Darren J. Check of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/131940 http://www.law360.com/articles/132731 Realtime Data LLC has won court approval for a settlement and licensing deal with F5 Networks Inc. and one of its customers, putting to rest allegations that the companies infringed seven patents covering compression-based data acceleration technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/132731 http://www.law360.com/articles/132653 A New York City judge approved Southfield, Mich.-based Lear Corp.'s plan of reorganization on Thursday in a bankruptcy hearing devoid of objections save an eleventh-hour letter from one wiped-out shareholder who did not show up to press the fight. http://www.law360.com/articles/132653 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/132564 A small cadre of Fowler White Boggs PA attorneys — including shareholder Burton Wiand — has broken off to start its own securities and complex litigation boutique in Tampa, Fla. http://www.law360.com/articles/132564 http://www.law360.com/articles/131138 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently proposed amendments to the proxy rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are intended to provide additional flexibility for issuers and other soliciting persons on the content and format of the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, say Laurence S. Lese, David J. Kaufman, Dietrich A. Loos and Peter D. Visalli of Duane Morris LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/131138 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/131856 Electricite de France International SA and Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group Inc. finally made good on a $4.5 billion nuclear assets deal Monday, brushing aside concerns that a $100 million ratepayer rebate required by Maryland regulators would create a snag. http://www.law360.com/articles/131856 http://www.law360.com/articles/126163 Buyers and sellers need to become more realistic about valuations, and credit markets need to soften so there is a middle ground, says T. Justin Moore III, head of Hunton & Williams LLP's corporate team. http://www.law360.com/articles/126163 http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 Technology company Qimonda AG has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review a determination issued earlier this month finding one Qimonda patent invalid, and ruling that Seagate Technology and LSI Corp. had not infringed three other Qimonda patents by importing semiconductor integrated circuit chips. http://www.law360.com/articles/131141 http://www.law360.com/articles/121087 One of the biggest issues we face is the amount of time it takes the clerk’s office to compile the record on appeal and to ensure the record is complete, says Nancy M. Reimer, a shareholder with LeClairRyan in the firm's tort defense group. http://www.law360.com/articles/121087 http://www.law360.com/articles/129751 Harvest Energy Trust, a Calgary-based producer and refiner of oil and natural gas, has been snapped up by Korea National Oil Corp. for CA$4.1 billion ($3.9 billion), in a deal designed to shore up the energy supply of Asian economic powerhouse South Korea. http://www.law360.com/articles/129751 http://www.law360.com/articles/129327 A federal judge has effectively tossed a proposed class action that took issue with allegedly misleading statements surrounding an initial public offering of common stock in dry bulk shipping company Britannia Bulk Holdings Inc. http://www.law360.com/articles/129327