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A 'perfect storm' for pension suits?
Attorneys are doing well with the unfortunate outcomes for employees of companies trying to endure bankruptcies and scandals.Summers, Geithner have baggage, not fatal flaws
Lawrence Summers is a brilliant, sometimes arrogant economist who can be hard to work with. Timothy Geithner, whose sharp mind has been honed by five years of dealing with the heads of the world's largest financial institutions, got his job as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank partly because he is easy to work with.Protection for Shareholder Payments in LBOs Gone Bad
Lisa M. Schweitzer, a partner with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Luke A. Barefoot, an associate, write that when a company acquired in an LBO faces an inability to sustain its debt load or other business conditions push it to seek bankruptcy protection, debtors may review the LBO transaction to determine whether the payments made to shareholders, and debt incurred, may be avoided under federal and state fraudulent conveyance theories based on an argument that the company received less than reasonably equivalent value in exchange. The success of such challenges, they say, often initially turns on the applicability of the safe harbor for securities transactions provided by �546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code.Corrupt culture may be ticket to light sentence
Imagine Tony Soprano getting convicted and given a shorter prison sentence because he worked in a criminal environment. That would be getting it backward. A federal judge implied last week he may go easy on two brokers convicted of securities fraud because they worked within a "culture of corruption." He wasn't talking northern New Jersey.Big Public Energy Partnership in Big State of Texas
Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners is one of the largest publicly traded energy partnerships in North America. Enterprise has been involved in more than $1.4 billion in investments and acquisitions this year. Not surprisingly, Richard H. Bachmann, the company's chief legal officer, has been incredibly busy. Bachmann and Enterprise's CEO describe their working relationship.View more book results for the query "Related Cos"
Housing nears bottom with no quick bounce
The slump in the U.S. housing market that caused the median value of homes to decline 24 percent since 2006 may bottom next month without any prospect of a rebound for another year, according to estimates from chief economists at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Mortgage Bankers Association and national realtors and homebuilder groups.UCJF Not Available to Passengers of Bare-Bones Automobile-Policy Holders
The limited personal injury benefits under "dollar-a-day" auto policies are not the equivalent of having no benefits for purposes of recourse to the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund, the state Supreme Court rules.Trending Stories
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