Asset Management Archive » May, 2014

Asset Management - May, 2014

161 articles

• Administrative Law Judge OKs Delay in SEC's Cohen Case
• CFTC Rolls Out Swaps Rule Fix For Public Utilities
• Hedge Fund, Bob Evans Farms Spar Again Over Board Picks
• SEC Loses Latest Trial To Hedge Fund Boss Obus
• Jurors Won't Hear Of Raj Brother's SAC Ties
• Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds Hold 90% Of Assets, Study Finds
• Ex-Rothstein Partner Pleads Not Guilty To Bribery Charges
• Can Bankrupt Law Firms Claw Back 'Unfinished Biz' Profits?
• Scottrade: Diluting SEC Enforcement's 'Admission' Policy
• US Says Rajaratnam Evidence-'Sandbagging' Claims Baseless
• Spotlight On Buy-Side Leverage
• SEC Nears Finish Line In Long-Running Insider Trading Case
• Deutsche Bank Workers Say They Left Over 'Shady' Practices
• 'Bratz' Maker Sues Investing Cos. For $430M Over Failed Deal
• Man Group In Talks To Buy Investment Manager Numeric
• Pantheon Looks To Open PE Funds To Smaller Investors
• Dutch Fund Manager Invests $650M In Chinese Warehouse Co.
• Wells Fargo To Pay $62M To Exit Investor Class Action
• Laredo Lands $130M In PE Funding For Drilling Program
• Charles Schwab Founder Sued Over $25M RE Investment Fraud
• 2nd Circ. Again Nixes Claims JPMorgan, Others Aided Madoff
• Another Credit Bubble And Looming Litigation Risks
• Merrill Appeals Order Allowing Trusts' RMBS Buyback Suit
• GCs Question If Partners Are Worth The Cost
• Awaiting 2nd Circ., Bharara Asks SEC To Hold Cohen Case
• 11th Circ. Upholds Convictions In $7M Stock Fraud Scheme
• Teachers' Deal Cooks Up $1B Value For Restaurant Group
• 5 Insights From Ingram Micro's Lily Hughes
• Vivus Investor Unveils Plans For $640M Buyout Offer
• Deals Rumor Mill: Guggenheim, Facebook, GE
• Morgan Stanley Ducks W.Va. Pension Fund Claims In MBS Suit
• Akin Gump Reps Hannon In $107M Clean Energy Acquisition
• BuckleySandler Nabs Ex-Ally Financial Atty For DC Office
• PE Firm Nordic Capital Pays $331M For SEB's Euroline Unit
• Former Hedge Fund Analyst Cops To Insider Trading
• The Case For Eliminating Crummey Powers
• Ex-SAC Trader Martoma Calls For Lenient Sentence
• Moody's, S&P Can't Escape CalPERS Suit Over $1B Losses
• Conscious Parallelism May Justify A Wolf Pack Pill
• Deals Rumor Mill: LA Clippers, Alstom, Ontario Teachers
• Hedge Fund Boss Obus Denies Insider Trading At SEC Trial
• Gov't Urges High Court To Reject Madoff Trustee Suit
• Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Peter J. Walsh To Retire
• Allergan Rips Valeant's Biz Model As Heftier Bid Looms
• KKR Puts Up $1.1B To Buy Singaporean Packaging Co.
• Fidelity May Put Up $500M For $5.4B Energy Futures Loan
• High Court Won't Free Investment Managers From Fraud Rap
• Link REIT Inks $159.9M Deal To Sell 4 Hong Kong Properties
• California Broker Will Pay SEC $44M For Ponzi Scheme
• 5 Insights From MetLife General Counsel Ricardo Anzaldua
• New Stream Execs Cop To Conspiracy In Fraud Case
• Dewey Can't Get Arbitration For Couple's Investment Suit
• In Pursuing BP, FERC Unafraid To Cast Wide Enforcement Net
• Ruderman Ponzi Victims Can Be Paid Before $25M SEC Claim
• China Lowers Barriers To Foreign Investment To Fuel Growth
• Apax To Cash Out Of Foreign Exchange With Travelex Sale
• Morgan Lewis Adds Former SEC Counsel To DC Office
• Carter Validus REIT Pays $212M For Chicago-Area Data Center
• RLJ Pays $120M For 2 West Coast Hotels
• Gov't Blasts Rajaratnam Bid To Nix Inside-Trading Evidence
• Deals Rumor Mill: Reynolds American, Travelex, TSB Bank
• 11th Circ. Says Lancer Group Fraudster Needs New Sentence
• Rare Private Equity Self-Sale Raises Questions
• Andrews Kurth Atty Wanted At $10M Stanford Malpractice Trial
• RE Rumor Mill: Secured Capital, UC Davis, Sam's Club
• Morgan Stanley Can't Shake PNC Trade Secrets Suit
• Darden Proxy Fight Heats Up As Activist Pitches New Board
• Helios Pushes NY For Quick Decision On Coal Plant Restart
• SEC Settles Insider Trading Suit Over Carlyle Group Buyout
• Hess Slimdown Continues With $2.9B Retail Gas Sale
• 'Neither Admit Nor Deny' Continues To Draw Controversy
• CORRECTED: Cadwalader Didn't Snub 'Red Flags' On Loan Appraisal: Suit
• Fund Manager Wants Negligence Claims Revived Against PwC
• 2nd Circ. Mulls Voiding Fairfield's Sale of $230M Madoff Claim
• Filene's Basement Trustee Seeks Fried Frank Docs In Ch. 11
• Butler Snow Adds Tax, Licensing Pro In Memphis
• Edison Mission To Pay $23M To Settle Retirees' Claims
• 11th Circ. Told Bad Evidence Tainted $7M Stock Fraud Trial
• McKesson Hit With Suit Over Celesio Shareholder Payout
• The Trial Lawyer's Guide To A Winning Direct Examination
• No Easy Win For IRS In Madoff Account Tax-Refund Dispute
• Harman International Pays $365M For Tech Automation Co.
• Ackman Prods Allergan For Outside Review Of $46B Takeover
• Goodwin Procter Reps Carlyle In Buying Talent Services Co.
• Ex-Weil Banking Head Joins Kirkland in London
• CalPERS Plans New Cuts To Private Equity Allocation
• Brookfield Expands Hotel Presence With Thayer Lodging Buy
• Quantum Foods' Ch. 11 Stays Afloat With Revived $60M DIP
• Hot London Hotel Market Forces Deal Makers To Sweeten Pot
• American Realty Scores $2B In Sale Of Shopping Centers
• Calif. Appeals Court Tosses Judges' $100M Pension Suit
• 5 Takeaways From Credit Suisse's $2.6B Tax Evasion Fine
• Deals Rumor Mill: Commerzbank, Repsol, Wencor
• BB&T Gets NFL Players' $53M Fund Transfer Claims Pared
• PE-To-PE Exits Increasingly Trump Strategic Buyers, IPOs
• CFTC Shortchanged In House Panel's Spending Bill
• The No-Nonsense New Yorker: Justice Jeffrey K. Oing
• RE Rumor Mill: Hugo Boss, Stropiq, Jane Street
• 5 Insights From Prudential General Counsel Susan Blount
• Fla. Bar Wants Atty Indicted For $21M Scheme Suspended
• K&L Gates Adds International Investment Management Partner
• Top House Republican Urges Halt To SIFI Designations
• Bonomi Fund Raises Club Med Stake To Thwart Fosun Bid
• Carlyle Fund Beats Investors' RMBS Risk Disclosure Appeal
• Ray LaHood Heads From DOT To Investment Firm Meridiam
• Australian Winemaker Rejects KKR's $3B Buyout Bid
• A Close Look At Pledge Funds
• LSE Enters Into Exclusive Talks To Buy Russell Investments
• Major AstraZeneca Investor Urges $118B Pfizer Merger Talks
• SEC Commish Hints At More Scrutiny Of Lawyers
• AXA Investment Strategy Harms Policyholders, Suit Says
• NJ Atty Disbarred For Concealing $500M Bayou Ponzi Scheme
• Funds Dodge $15M Contract Row Over Facebook Investments
• Credit Suisse Pays $2.6B, Pleads Guilty In Tax Evasion Case
• Asset Managers May Yet Avoid Systemic Risk Designation
• Ex-MF Global Execs Granted Extra $10M For Defense Costs
• SEC To Lean On 'Controlling Persons' Law In Fraud Cases
• FINRA To Revamp Risk Data Plan After Industry Objects
• King & Spalding Adds Ex-WilmerHale Hedge Fund Pro In NY
• Debevoise Partner's Apparent Suicide Shocks Firm
• 2nd Circ. Clears Prudential Trader In SEC Market Timing Case
• Asset Managers Fear Regulators Plan To Beef Up Oversight 
• NY Regulator Proposes Rules For PE Annuity Deals
• Bradesco Makes Splash As $1B Ford Offering Bookrunner
• Jeffer Mangels Adds Manatt Capital-Raising Pro To LA Office
• Miller Nash Accused Of Fumbling FFNW Proxy Battle
• Law Practice Is Evolving Via 'Legal Project Management'
• Morgan Stanley Can't Shed Allstate's $104M MBS Suit
• Togut Segal Nabs Ex-Kasowitz Auto, Finance Bankruptcy Pro
• 2nd Circ. Newman Ruling Looms Over Latest SAC Sentencing
• For Solar Industry, Obama's REIT Rewrite Falls Flat
• Fortress Said To Bid $4.7B For Stuyvesant Town Complex
• Blue Harbour's $125.5M Chico's Stake Buy Gets FTC's Nod
• RE Rumor Mill: Blackstone, WeWork, PMC
• Deals Rumor Mill: AstraZeneca, Carlyle, BWAY
• Ex-Merrill Trader Hits Brazil Brokerage Firm With $10M Suit
• Broker Says Insurer Can't Blackball Attys In Churning Case
• The Tenacious Technocrat: Judge Francis Allegra
• CFTC Official Says Automated Trading Regs Still In Works
• 3rd Circ. Says Bad Tax Advice Can Nix Some IRS Penalties
• Rajaratnam Brother Wants Wiretaps Excluded From Trial
• Sallie Mae, Navient To Pay $96.6M Over Loan Practices
• Volkswagen Paves Way For $9.2B Scania Takeover
• Syniverse Offers $290M For Mobile Network Servicer Aicent
• What To Know About New DOD Rule On Foreign Ownership
• Pfizer Could Raise Contested $106B AstraZeneca Merger Bid
• Intel Can't Withdraw Lehman Claim Over $1B Collateral
• CD&R Pays $1.7B For German Industrial Packaging Co.
• McGuireWoods Scores FCPA Pro From Latham & Watkins
• SEC Internal Controls, Accounting Need Work, GAO Says
• Quiznos Gets OK For Ch. 11 Plan To Slash $400M In Debt
• Ex-Willkie Farr Atty To Head Parker Ibrahim Securities Group
• Deals Rumor Mill: CalPERS, Carphone, Time Warner
• Investcorp Puts Up $105M For Texas, Florida Properties
• Intevac, Voce Capital Nix Proxy Fight With New Board Nom
• $88M Singapore Cruise Centre Deal Goes Belly Up
• Ex-Sentinel CEO, Claiming Jury Laziness, Urges Acquittal
• Valeant, Ackman Poised To Go Hard In $46B Allergan Fight
• Detroit Plan Threatens Muni Bond Market, SIFMA Says
• Hillshire Brands To Pay $4.3 Billion For Pinnacle Foods
• SAC's Steinberg Deserves At Least 5 Years, Prosecutors Say