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... the shareholders vote more than 120 days before the one-year anniversary of the Acquisition Agreement, this could save Morgan some money. For this Jamie Dimon was "apoplectic"? I don't doubt that he presented the case in this way, but forgive ... Liabilities of the Covered BSC Entities guarantied hereunder or the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder with respect thereto. This provision obligates Morgan to stand behind the guarantee, even if Bear's shareholders reject the deal, as long as Bear's ...

... cut JPMorgan Chase people to make room for Bear Stearns executives it wants to keep. JP Morgan has as many as 1,000 executives in the investment-banking department, which translates to a ... department were told they no longer have jobs. Earlier this year, CEO Jamie Dimon, a noted cost cutter, told investors he wanted to create a "fortress-like" balance sheet that could withstand the credit crisis and put JP Morgan in a position to take on Goldman Sachs. Dimon has plans to cut additional jobs to ...

After pulling in record-breaking profits for 2006, J.P. Morgan Chase's chief executive, Jamie, Dimon, wants to celebrate with a shopping spree. "If something comes up, we're prepared at this point to take a look," Mr. Dimon said on Wednesday. Helped by its trading and investment banking businesses, J.P. Morgan posted a 68 percent increase in earnings [...]

Is J.P. Morgan Chase in danger of getting too big? Not yet, according to Jamie Dimon, the bank's chairman and chief executive. It's a fair question for the company, which after a series of huge deals in recent years now has $1.3 trillion in assets, a vast consumer operation in the U.S. and a [...]

A report that an ambitious banker recently pitched a Citigroup-Bank of America merger has got the folks at Breakingviews thinking: Wouldn't a combination of Citi and J.P. Morgan Chase make more sense? (At least one commenter on DealBook has been thinking the same thing.) Not only could such a deal bring Jamie Dimon back to Citi, [...]

There's tone-deaf and there's just plain stupid. J.P. Morgan apparently is both. After receiving $25 billion in TARP funds, the company is proceeding with plans to spend $138 million on two luxury corporate jets and build ... not using the TARP funds for the project. [More...] Apparently, the company feels victimized: [O]n March 11, the chairman of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, said he could not understand why corporate America has such a bad image. "When I hear the constant vilification of corporate ...

... of Mr. Mbeki's reluctance to act may have to do with Mr. Mugabe's residual status as a liberation hero. But mostly, I believe, it stems from Mr. Mbeki's distaste for the Zimbabwean opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change and its main leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who used to head up the Zimbabwean trades union movement. Therein lies the problem: Mr. Mbeki's ruling African National Congress party is actually a troika, and one of its legs is the Congress of South African Trade Union, which is ...

... is 518-477-2546. Schodack Justice Court has two judges: Honorable Paul W. Peter and Honorable Bruce J. Wagner. Court is held every Wednesday starting at 6:00 PM. Trish Loomis is the Senior Court Clerk. Jamie Morgan is the Assistant to Senior Court Clerk. William Dikant is the Court Officer. The Court is open Monday through Friday 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. The Rensselaer County District Attorney's office prosecutes all criminal cases in ...

... were being offered millions of dollars to move to new firms. While J.P. Morgan tried to reassure employees with offers of cash and stock, headhunters believe that many ... Stearns key employees will make a move. At weeks end, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was reportedly asking other firms to lay off hiring Bear ... Finally, in an attempt to placate angry shareholders and salvage the acquisition, J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns have reportedly renegotiated the contemplated transaction. The terms of the revised ...

... Dow's CEO, Andrew Liveris, learned of their alleged activities from Jamie Dimon, the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, whose London affiliate had been involved in ... alleged that Dow CEO Liveris was himself talking to investment banks, including JP Morgan Chase, about the possibility of doing an LBO of his own during the same period. (Last ... acknowledge, on the other hand, that Kreinberg and Reinhard didn't know that the JP Morgan Chase contingent would be present until shortly before the meeting. He also ...