Asset Management
Asset Management Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the asset management industry. Coverage includes litigation, policy developments, and corporate deals involving investment firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, pension funds, and real estate investment trusts.
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Latest News in Asset Management
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May 26, 2017
Sports Biz Of Chinese Tech Co. Valued At $3.5B In Fundraise
The sports division of Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco has raised a round of funding that values it at 24 billion yuan ($3.5 billion), it said Friday, and the company has plans to form a committee that will assist with its strategic decisions.
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May 26, 2017
Fla. Firm Seeks To Claw Back Proceeds Of Alleged $64M Fraud
A Florida-based investment firm that raised more than $64 million from 400 investors in an allegedly fraudulent securities offering sued Thursday to claw back over $3 million from one of the firm's originators who lured investors into the scam.
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May 26, 2017
Ocwen Says Loan Auditor Billed Strip Clubs, Bloated Hours
A lawsuit filed by Ocwen Financial Corp. alleges that the monitor hired by California regulators as part of a June 2015 mortgage servicing settlement fraudulently inflated monthly rates and attempted to bill Ocwen for employees’ outings to strip clubs and casinos.
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May 26, 2017
Interest Rate Swap Trader Says Exchange OK On Its Own
Interest rate swap trader MarkitSERV Ltd. urged a New York federal court Friday to refuse online exchange TrueEX LLC a preliminary injunction to force MarkitSERV to continue their relationship, likening TrueEX’s dire prediction of its closure to Chicken Little's “proclaiming that the sky is falling.”
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May 26, 2017
Glass-Steagall Revival Could Have Profound Impact
The financial services industry faces the real possibility of a bipartisan effort to reinstate the portions of the Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial and investment banking. Depending on the final form any new legislation takes, the changes could go further than merely reinstating the status quo as of 1999, say V. Gerard Comizio and Nathan Brownback of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial public offerings
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spinoffs
- Franchise and management agreements
- Real estate deals
- Shareholder activism involving hedge funds and hedge fund managers
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Internal Revenue Service
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Financial company lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Bankruptcies involving assets managed by hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, or other investment managers
- Restructuring and distressed debt issues
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of asset management practices
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