Asset Management Archive » April, 2015

Asset Management - April, 2015

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• SEC Rejects Broker's Janus Argument In Clean-Energy Case
• Wachtell Lipton Founder Suggests Settling With Activists
• FINRA To Put CARDS On Ice To Consider Other Options
• CFTC Proposes Easing Options Requirements For End-Users
• Puerto Rico Asks 1st Circ. To Revive Restructuring Law
• Broadstone Net Lease REIT Acquires $95M Worth Of Property
• Puerto Rico Crisis Worsens With Tax Overhaul Flop
• Allen Matkins, Orrick Steer REIT's $309M West Coast Sales
• Mayer Brown Reps Dow Chemical In Latest Unit Sale For $860M
• AIG Says PIMCO Filed Securities Fraud Suit Too Late
• 'Embarrassing' BNY Mellon Emails Unsealed In Investor Action
• Francisco Partners Forks Over $438M For ClickSoftware
• Investors Hungry For Self-Storage Portfolio Trades
• RBS Earmarks $1B For Future Forex Settlements
• Stroock Nabs Ex-Kelley Drye Real Estate Pro For LA
• Revolving-Door Roundup: Pimco, WilmerHale, MoFo
• Wachtell Guides Sears In Forming $300M Macerich Venture
• Bakrie Execs Urge NY Court To Toss $380M Bond Suit
• Ocwen Exec Sold $72M Stake Before Stock Drop, Suit Says
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Shorenstein, RREEF, Milwaukee Bucks
• SEC Hits 2 For Insider Trading on Chinese E-Commerce Merger
• New IRS Regulations Could Affect Offshore Insurers
• Redbrick, David Werner Finance Apt. Deal With $402M Loan
• SEC Reaches Deal With Ex-Ameriprise Adviser Ahead Of Trial
• BNY Mellon Seeks To Scrap Proposed Forex Investor Class
• Jones Day's Orr Champions Muni Settlement Model
• Strategic Hotels To Shed Calif. Hyatt In $118M Deal
• SEC Uses Firm's Retaliation To Market Tipster Program
• CFTC Lands $5.5M Victory In Forex Trading Row
• SEC Pay-For-Performance Plan May Actually Boost Exec Pay
• Embattled Ariad CEO To Step Down In Sarissa Deal
• States Want Stay Of $17M DBSI Tax Row For 9th Circ. Appeal
• Ex-Level Global Trader Says Newman Voids Conviction
• SEC Floats Additional Cross-Border Swaps Rules
• Data Startup Infinidat Raises $150M In Latest Funding Round
• SEC Charges Hedge Fund, Execs For Misusing Client Funds
• Split SEC Votes To Propose Executive-Pay Disclosures
• Vinson Guides Biomass Energy Co. Enviva In $200M IPO
• Dish, Ergen Escape Harbinger's $1.5B Suit Over LightSquared
• Ex-JPMorgan Employee Stole Customer Data, FBI Says
• Del. Chancery Axes $450M ADT Stock Repurchase Suit
• SEC's Investment Management Team Offers Cybersecurity Tips
• Carlton Fields, Shumaker Loop Guide $117M Property Deal
• Bipartisan Bill To Lift Veil On Fed. Settlements Reintroduced
• DOL Accuses City National Of Self-Dealing In ERISA Suit
• SEC Awards $600K To Tipster In Paradigm Retaliation Case
• Skadden, Kirkland Steer Carlyle's Investment In Rede D'Or
• Wayne County Chief Unveils Plan To Dodge Bankruptcy
• 9th Circ. Won't Rethink Ruling Reviving Schwab CMO Suit
• 5 Proxy Battles To Look Out For This Season
• Futures Industry Law Confab Canned Due To Baltimore Riots
• TIAA-CREF Pays $454M For Stake in 2.2M-SF Hawaii Mall
• PwC Liability In MF Global Fiasco A Close Call In 2nd Circ.
• SAC Capital Ducks Investors' Racketeering Claims
• Hudson's Bay Investors Cut Down Stakes In $363M Offering
• Sen. Warren Calls Out Annuity Cos. For Lavish Sales Gifts
• Skadden Guides Windstream's Tax-Free Spinoff Of REIT
• TIAA-CREF To Take Over Property JV In $122M Deal
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Brookfield, China Vanke, Bennett
• Debunking The Myth: Why Activism Is Tough In Canada
• Gramercy Client Wants Indemnity Suit Over Tax Shelter Tossed
• Endeavour Lenders Slam Creditors' Bid To Wipe $440M Loans
• Sheppard Mullin Can't Trim Claim It Shielded Client Assets
• Highland Claims Ex-Sales Director Stole Client Data
• Vegas Showroom REIT Sets Terms for $185M IPO
• Citigroup Ordered To Give Banamex Files To Pension Fund
• $9M Hedge Fund Embezzler Sentenced To 4 Years
• Baker & McKenzie's Malaysia Arm Guides $902M Finance Deal
• Manatt Nabs 3 Squire Patton Boggs Corporate Partners
• Ex-Cushing Trader Gets 30 Months For Securities Fraud
• IRS May Need Legislative Fix For Reinsurance Tax Strategy
• Foundry Insider Gets 78 Months, Vows 'Newman' Appeal
• Ropes & Gray Picks Up 2 Mutual Fund Pros From K&L Gates
• INC Research's PE Backers Plan $237M Secondary Offering
• FINRA Targets Sales To Military Personnel With New Rules
• Harvey Miller, Godfather Of Bankruptcy Law, Dies At 82
• Facilitating Access To Italian Nonperforming Loans
• UBS Unit Strikes $338M Deal For London Office
• Madoff Trustee Nets $11.1M In Clawback Deal With Families
• Christie Warns Of Court 'Entanglement' In $1.6B Pension Fight
• Barclays 'Dark Pool' Suit Survives Dismissal Bid
• LSU Halts $114M Bond Issue, Says Insolvency Fear Premature
• Nasdaq Rebuts Market Power Claims In SEC Data Pricing Row
• 4 Hurdles The Gov't Faces In Monumental 'Flash Crash' Case
• PREPA Creditors Fed Up With Restructuring Tug-Of-War
• NJ Firm, Dentons Exit Malpractice Dispute Over $41M Loan
• CPPIB, Global Logistic JV Sells Japan Property For $60M
• Carlyle Unloads French 3-D Software Co. To Astorg Partners
• TIAA Henderson Scores $607M Debt Deal
• National Storage, Apigee Mark Week's Only IPOs
• A Harbinger Of SLUSA's Broad Reach
• Court Has Broad Authority Over Assets To Satisfy Restitution
• Kirkland Fights To Remain At Helm Of Caesars Bankruptcy
• SEC Told Nasdaq, NYSE Prices Hit Returns In Market Data Row
• Rothstein Trustee Settles Investor Row In Bankruptcy Case
• Puerto Rico Could Shut Down, Lender Of Last Resort Warns
• 11th Circ. Takes Up Ala. County's Appeal Of Ch. 9 Challenge
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Weingarten, Tier REIT, Orbach Group
• DLA Piper, Seyfarth Steer REIT InvenTrust's $57M Mall Buy
• Hammerson Nabs $93M In Sale Of English Mall
• Goldman Grabs Pacific Life's Pension Fund Adviser Biz
• Celgene Drugs Join Hedge Fund's AIA Patent Hit List
• McLaughlin & Stern Beats $2.1M Malpractice Suit In Ponzi Row
• Ex-Soros Fund Manager's Bid For $3M In Fees Gets Axed
• Insider Trader Revamps Plea After Newman, Avoids Jail
• Jailed Fund Chief Says Newman Reduces Case To Technicality
• Enforcement Extensions Aren't Reviewable, SEC Tells DC Circ.
• Parkit, PE Firm Och-Ziff Form $500M Parking Property JV
• 2nd Circ. Partially Revives Madoff Feeder Fund Class Action
• RBC Pays $1.4M To Settle FINRA Supervisory Failure Claims
• No Bright-Line Test In IRS Hedge Fund Reinsurance Regs
• New York Life Strikes $205M Loan For MEPT's NYC Tower
• National Storage REIT Misses Target In $260M IPO
• Calculus Of Going Hostile: Recent Lessons From The Field
• Getting Ready For BEA Survey Of US Investment Abroad
• Barnes & Thornburg Malpractice Defense Ripped In $50M Suit
• Prudential Settles $2B RMBS Row With BofA, Merrill
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Playboy Club, Magnum, Starwood
• GCs Name Most Elite Law Firms
• Hedge Fund's New Patent Attack Targets Biogen's MS Drug
• Argentina Ordered To Divulge Details Of $1.4B Bond Sale
• SEC Sends Warning To Compliance Chiefs With BlackRock Fine
• Cleary Reps Brookfield In $1.7B Deal For Associated Estates
• CFTC Will Allow Swap Trade Fixes In Regulatory Overhaul
• NY Financial Compliance Landscape May Get Treacherous
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: David Robinson, Lending Club, JFR
• General Growth Pays $1.8B For New York's Crown Building
• SEC Wins Freeze On Phony Hedge Fund Manager's Assets
• 11th Circ. To Hear Fight Over Shareholder, Pension Payments
• SunTrust Suit Says Morgan Stanley Broker Took Trade Secrets
• Clifford Chance Steers Aurelis' $569M Loan Deal
• State Rescues Seen As Doubtful For Atlantic City, Chicago
• Ex-SEC Chair, Investors Urge Political Spending Disclosures
• 7th Circ. Asked To Reverse $25M CFTC 'Asset Grab'
• Dense Property Crowdfunding Field Demands Deft Vetting
• SEC Won't DQ BlackRock As 'Bad Actor' After $12M Settlement
• Brookfield Plans $1B Stock Offering To Fund Deals
• 2 Approaches To Ponzi Fraud Treatment — Which Is Right?
• A Look At The 1st Criminal 'Spoofing' Prosecution: Part 2
• Kirkland Steers Edmentum In $140M Restructuring Deal
• Greenberg Traurig Atty Deceit Action Headed For Trial
• Bankruptcy Talks Collapse Between Caesars, Bank Lenders
• Meager 4% Of Wall Street Attys Are Female Partners
• Barclays' Attempt To Quash HFT Suit Blasted By Brokerage
• Top NJ Lawmakers Wade Into Supreme Court Pension Fight
• SEC Won't Let Hedge Fund Jettison Shareholder Proposal
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Ayala Land, Real Estate Equities
• Gupta Accuses Bharara Of About-Face On Newman's Impact
• Labaton Slams CVS Cert Challenge Over Political Donations
• SEC Seeks $180M From Rothstein Feeder Fund Owner
• Ga. High Court Sides With XL In 'Consent-To-Settle' Fight
• NII Allowed To Offer $4.35B Debt Plan For Creditor Vote
• No Road Map For Muni Creditors From Detroit Ch. 9
• SEC Fines BlackRock $12M Over Failure To Disclose Conflicts
• Hedge Fund Lawyers Unsure How To Comply With Newman
• Running A Private Equity And Hedge Fund Side By Side
• 2015 Begins With A Drop In FCPA Enforcement Activity
• A Look At The 1st Criminal 'Spoofing' Prosecution: Part 1
• Justices Refuse Gupta's Appeal Of Insider Trading Conviction
• Tips For Guiding Your Client Through The Mediation Process
• The 100 Best Law Firms For Female Attorneys
• Law Firm Biases Continue To Thwart Women
• The Best Law Firms For Female Partners
• The Glass Ceiling Report
• REIT Prologis To Pay $5.9B For KTR Capital Partners
• Chancery Fast-Tracks Suit Over $63M BioScrip Stock Deal
• Ch. 11 Reforms Seen Pushing Restructurings Out Of Court
• PwC Paying $65M To End Suit Over MF Global Collapse
• Clifford Chance-Led REIT Set To Headline Week's 3 IPOs
• Banks Lose Ground In Revolving Door Race
• Prologis Issues $324M Note Offering In Europe
• Two Sigma Can't Extend VP's Work Ban In Contract Fight
• Goodwin Procter Nabs Ex-King & Wood PE Partner In London
• SEC's Freddie Mac Letdown Underscores Discovery Risks
• KSL Delivers $100M Refi To St. Regis Aspen Resort
• McDermott Can't Get Antioch Malpractice Suit Going Again
• Seyfarth Shaw, Banks Ran Tax Shelter Scam, Suit Says
• NJ Judge Blocks Straub's Plan To Re-Energize Revel
• Law Duo Guide Calloway's $1.2B Deal With Wal-Mart Developer
• Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose Fulbright, Skadden
• SEC Seeks $1M From Ponzi Scheme Feeder Fund Manager
• Ex-Diplomat Can't Ditch Order To Return Stanford Ponzi Funds
• Skadden-Led Fortress Transportation Unit Charts $100M IPO
• Boston Investment Adviser Hit With $48M Arbitration Award
• How To Dodge The Dangers Of Unregistered Securities
• Caesars Ch. 11 Examiner Gets Winston & Strawn For Probe
• REIT Liberty Property Leases Out 1.3M Square Feet
• Ex-Revel Utility Maligns Straub's Proposed Power Plans
• Sidley, Skadden Guiding Starwood REIT's $286M Offering
• Lynn Tilton Presses Bid To Freeze SEC In-House Case
• Katten's Bad Advice Led To Ponzi Losses, 7th Circ. Hears
• Feds Say Newman Can't Help Jailed Hedge Funder Whitman
• Ex-Fund Manager To Redo Insider Trading Plea After Newman
• REIT Pays Blackstone $83M For DC Area Offices
• Ex-JPMorgan Adviser Charged With $20M Client Theft
• Pillsbury Leads Asia Alternatives To $1.8B Fund Closings
• Former Fed Chair Bernanke Joins Citadel As Senior Adviser
• Law Trio Guides RFR's €480M EuroTower Sale To IVG
• Seyfarth Nabs Beazer Homes Real Estate Pro For Atlanta
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Macerich, Zell, Thor
• New Revel Owner Says Deal Unlikely In Casino Power Struggle
• Chinese Brokerage Haitong Plans $670M Bond Offering
• Casinos Weigh Cash Concerns Against Leaseback Hurdles
• Warren Blasts SEC, DOJ Over 'Slap On The Wrist' Enforcement
• DOL Missed Chance To Make Statement In BNP Case
• BNP Paribas Sentenced Following $9B Settlement
• Watchdogs Push Congress To Act On Investor Disclosures
• SEC Chair Feels Heat In Congress Over Email Subpoena Power
• Goodwin Reps REIT DiamondRock On $85M Texas Hotel Deal
• Prosecutors Still Weighing Newman High Court Appeal
• RBS Didn't Mislead Investors About RMBS Exposure: 2nd Circ.
• Tribune Creditors Ask 3rd Circ. For Appeal Of $7B Plan
• 2 Routes To Hourly Rates For Lawyers
• A 'Winning' Strategy: Redefine The Term
• 2nd Circ. Revives FGIC's $900M Claims Against Putnam
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: GLPI, Blackstone, Federal Capital
• UK FCA Fines BNY Mellon $186M For Violating Custody Rules
• New Plaintiffs Seek To Take Up Goldman Sex-Bias Case
• Pension Fund Asks Court To Join Exporter Shareholder Suits
• Fletcher Feeders Go After Accountants Over Auditing Gaffe
• SEC Commish Says Agency Needs Data Strategy Office
• Honigman, Haynes And Boone Steer $100M Pebblebrook Loan
• Paul Weiss Guides Exor's $6.4B Bid For Reinsurer PartnerRe
• Today's Debt Tricks May Hurt Cities Later, Fed Boss Warns
• 9th Circ. Comes Around On CAFA
• Petrobas Securities MDL Plaintiffs Stuck With Discovery Stay
• DC Circ. Told US Air Pilots Lost Millions From PBGC Inaction
• PREPA Turnaround Boss Casts Doubt On Bondholder Fix
• Labor Dept. Seeks To Expand Fiduciary Duties
• Ivanhoe, Blackstone Take $183M Bite Of Sydney Office
• SEC Reaches Settlement With Evercore Insider Trader
• Citibank Says Ex-VP Ran Off With Trade Secrets
• Standard Register Gets OK For $155M DIP, Auction Plans
• Questcor Pays $38M To Settle Securities Class Action
• RBS Selling $30B Fund Manager In Move To Streamline
• Jones Day, Weil Named In Fund Manager's RICO Suit
• Activist Firm Jana Targets Chipmaker Qualcomm
• Storage Property Trust Tees Up $340M IPO
• InnVest REIT Scores $64M Refinancing For Hyatt Hotel
• Canada Securities Watchdog To Study Enforcement Mediations
• NuWave Asks NJ Justices To Revive Nixed Defamation Award
• Simpson, Paul Hastings Steer Blackstone REIT's Share Sale
• MGM Blasts Activist Shareholder Over 'Flawed' REIT Plan
• SEC Sues Ga. Man Over $1M Internet Investment Ponzi Scheme
• Wachtell, Latham Guide Sears, Simon In $228M Property JV
• How To Weather Media Inquiries In High-Profile Cases
• Firm's Mortgage Advice Bankrupted Ex-Doctor, Trustee Says
• An In-House Cheat Sheet On The SEC Whistleblower Program
• Endeavour Creditors Move To Wipe Out $440M Lenders
• Taxation With Representation: Wachtell, Ropes & Gray, Vinson
• Sullivan & Cromwell Guides $92M One57 Condo Purchase
• Ergen Not Giving Up On LightSquared Ch. 11 Injunction
• GE To Sell Off GE Capital Assets, Return $90B To Investors
• Class Action Over UBS Funds Moved From Puerto Rico To NY
• How Russian CFC Rules Affect Inbound US Tax Planning
• Broker-Dealers — New Targets Of Unclaimed Property Audits
• Committee To Scrutinize Fees In Caesars Ch. 11
• SEC Names New Acting Exams Chief
• Edge Therapeutics Raises $72M For Brain Injury Drug
• FINRA Arbitrators Ignored Citigroup Deal, NY Court Says
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: GE, North River, Morton Salt
• Valeant, Pershing End Spat With Allergan Over Takeover Bid
• 11th Circ. Chews Up Big Apple's Janus Claim In SEC Suit
• Morgan Lewis, Hunton Steer Gramercy's $236M Offering
• S&P Says Chicago Needs Pension Fix To Shore Up Rating
• EU Antitrust Chief Calls For Integrated Capital Markets
• SEC Wins Fraud Claims Against Investment Adviser
• Public REIT Market Poised For Bustling M&A Run
• Apps Are Reshaping Gov't Investigations — And Compliance
• Caesars Debt Battle Escalates With Credit Suisse Suit
• Argentina Sues Citi Over Holdout Bondholder Agreement
• Holland & Knight Nabs Investment Fund Pro To Co-Head Team
• Emanuel Faces Wary Creditors In 2nd Chicago Term
• Franklin Street Properties Drops $78M On Atlanta Tower
• Ex-Financial Adviser Gets Prison Time For Winklevoss Lies
• Barnes & Thornburg Wants Legal Mal Claims Cut In $50M Row
• Abu Dhabi Inks $337M Deal For NYC's 'Clock Tower' Hotel
• Steinberg Asks 2nd Circ. To Keep His Appeal On Ice
• SEC Denied Judgment Against Alleged Receiver Of Inside Info
• SEC's Market Structure Guru To Leave Agency
• IMF Wants More Hands-On Regulation Of Asset Managers
• Investors Chasing Trophy Malls Turn To JV Deals
• American Capital Pockets $750M In Mirion Technologies Sale
• Activist Investors Blast 'Bloated' BNY Mellon Employee Ranks
• Financing CLO Risk Retention — Options And Concerns
• SEC Exams Chief Bowden Leaving For Private Sector
• Madoff Investors Want Swindler To Sit For Deposition
• Caesars Ch. 11 Examiner Wants Winston & Strawn For Probe
• Gusrae Kaplan DQ'd From SEC's Sands Brothers Case
• Rakoff Ruling May Help SEC Frame Insider Trading Claims
• Corporate Firms Take Aim At Delaware's Appraisal Laws
• 2nd Circ. Nixes Argentina's Contempt Appeal In Bond Row
• Artis REIT, Trammell Crow Buy 127 Acres In Texas
• Investment Firm Accuses Rothstein-Kass Of $11.3M Mistake
• LightSquared Punts On Ergen's Ch. 11 Protection Demand
• Munger Reps Berkshire Arm In $560M Deal For Axalta Stake
• CORRECTED: Fried Frank Guides Buyers In $5.3B Informatica Go-Private Deal
• Hedge Fund Adds Jazz Drug To List Of AIA Review Targets
• News Corp. Handed Win In Poison Pill Suit
• LXB Retail Strikes $222M Deals To Shed UK Projects
• Judge Iffy On Fining Imprisoned Inside Trader From Ameriprise
• Standard Register Unsecured Creditors Blast $275M Sale Plan
• PIABA Trolls The Fiduciary Duty Debate
• Argentina Takes $2.3B Bond Payment Row To 2nd Circ.
• Hedge Fund Wants To Vacate Default In Hotel Developer Suit
• DLA, Andrews Kurth Guide Houston Mega Office Tower Deal
• PCD Bankruptcy Trust Can't Extinguish $50M Mezz Loan
• Amedisys Asks High Court To Hear Revived Shareholder Suit
• REIT Physicians Realty Spends $234M On Q1 Acquisitions
• Banks Say Fed Should Withdraw SIFI Surcharge Proposal
• Law Quintet Guides Ventas' $1.5B Ardent Deal, REIT Plan
• DOJ's Pursuit Of Admissions — And The Risks Of Settling
• Contribution Caution: Mitigating Risks From Pay-To-Play
• 10th Circ. Won't Review FINRA Fine In Stock Scheme Case
• RadioShack Bankruptcy To Test Shelf Life Of Privacy Vows
• Judge Says BMO Must Arbitrate Poaching Suit Against UBS
• Huntington Ingalls Leases 515K Square Feet In Virginia
• La. Archdiocese Wants Stay Lifted In Founding Partners Row
• Hospital Group Says PE Funds Can't Dodge $45M Poach Suit
• Ex-Galleon Trader Says Atty Deprived Him Of Newman Defense
• Deals Rumor Mill: Reynolds American, Land & Buildings, SFR
• NM Businessman Ordered To Cough Up $55M In SEC Case
• BDCs: Navigating Uncertain Markets
• 2nd Circ. Refuses To Rehear Bharara's Newman Appeal
• Activist Investors Shy Away From Big Bank Fights, For Now
• Feds Say Gupta Misread Newman, Should Remain Jailed
• Walker Closes Record $670M Loan For REIT New Senior
• 9th Circ. Says CAFA Exception Sends Bond Suit To State Court
• Swiss Banker Pleads Guilty Days Before Trial In Fla.
• Tristan Capital Funds Pay $232M For Germany, UK Properties
• 'Big Short' Money Manager Lobs New Claims Over SEC Courts
• TD Bank Asks 11th Circ To Return $67M Ponzi Settlement
• Shire Drugs Are Next Targets Of Hedge Fund's AIA Reviews
• Farmers Sue Allens Ch. 11 Pros For Priority $2.8M Fee Claim
• Jamba Sells 100 Calif. Stores After Activist Pressure
• Simon Unveils $2B Stock Buyback After Macerich Loss
• Omnicare Muddies Section 11 Opinion Liability Standards
• Barclays Can't Escape Ex-Pillsbury Atty's Antitrust Suit
• Sears Plans To Form REIT With $2.5B Property Sales
• Deals Rumor Mill: Didi Dache-Kuaidi, Focus Media, Holcim
• PREPA Bondholders Back $2B Capital Investment Plan
• SEC Wins Fla. Trial Against Rothstein Fund Manager
• Gov't Has No Sovereign Immunity In $17M DBSI Tax Row
• 2nd Circ. Revives AIG Investors' $60M Stock-Drop Suit
• EFH Extends New York Make-Whole Rationale To Delaware
• Christie Asks NJ High Court To Take Up $1.6B Pension Fight
• Labaton Row A Reality Check On Lawyer Donations
• Baker Donelson Rips Apart Hedge Funds' Legal Fee Fraud Suit
• SEC Focus On Financial Reports Is Fodder For Plaintiffs
• Real Estate Rumor Mill: Sterling, Alibaba & Bank of China
• PE Adviser Tilton Lobs Latest Suit Over SEC In-House Courts
• Discovery Strategies To Protect LLC, LP Member Identities
• $16.8B Simon, Macerich Merger Proposal Collapses
• Ethics In The Tech Age: What Every Lawyer Should Consider