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14 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm by David Zaring
So maybe this kind of judicial reception, and the jury in Bear Stearns test case that failed, has made the government gun shy. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 3:09 am by By CHRIS V. NICHOLSON
Goldman Sachs has denied that it sparked the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds by lowering the valuation of their subprime assets. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 8:56 am by Matt Bodie
I'll give Skeel one point for consistency -- he was against the AIG and Bear Stearns bailouts; he thought they should have gone bankrupt, too. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 5:50 pm by Larry Ribstein
Nobody from Lehman, Merrill Lynch or Citigroup, no top AIG or Bear Stearns executives, no big mortgage company executive, not even Angelo Mozillo. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 1:27 pm by Justin McLachlan
" That's what Jesse Eisinger wonders in the New York Times, as he ponders the fact that virtually no one at Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch or any of the other firms deemed responsible for the financial crisis have been charged with any criminal violations. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 3:54 pm by Kenneth Anderson
The rescue of BearStearns in 2008 was achieved through a “lockup” of its sale to JPMorgan Chase that flagrantly violated corporate merger law. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 10:18 am by Buce
 Alan Schwartz, CEO of Bear Stearns: Running an asset management firm; trustee of Duke University. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:20 pm by Michael Rinne
As in real life, like Barry Fox, a research supervisor who worked for nine years at Bear Stearns, and committed suicide from a drug overdose and then jumping from his 29th-floor apartment after he learned he wouldn't be hired by JP Morgan Chase, the movie portrays how some people die over money. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 10:44 am by Susan Alker
  The book tells the gripping tale of the financial crisis, beginning with the downward slide of Bear Stearns and Lehman and continuing through to adoption of the TARP program. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 8:42 am by Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law School,
Bebchuk, Cohen, and Spamann, The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000­–2008, (Yale Journal on Regulation, 2010). [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:25 am by Jonathan Lipson
  Not only do we now know that the federal government, through the Financial Stability Oversight Council, really has the power to do what it said it couldn’t do (but sort of did anyway with Bear Stearns, AIG, GM, and, depending on your version of the story, Washington Mutual): we also know that the scope and use of these powers is almost entirely unpredictable ex ante. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 9:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Bear Stearns ended up spending $3 billion bailing out a hedge fund in which it had invested just $35 million.3) Regulators must ban any activity that allows banks to bet against their customers, or for that matter creates any material conflict of interest between banks and their customers. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 3:00 am by LindaMBeale
  Of course, the boom in mortgage lending, securitization glut, and ultimate bankruptcy of key sponsoring banks such as Lehman and Bear Stearns suggest that this "practical" issue had substantial consequences, at least for the legal proceedings even if not for the IRS tax status of entities (where legal title is not necessarily determinative of tax beneficial ownership). [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 11:24 am by Kevin
The research possibly most relevant to law-firm governance won the Management Prize (they had already given the Economics Prize to Bear Stearns, et al.). [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:15 pm by buslawblogger
The author of House of Cards (re. the demise of Bear Stearns) recently opined that neither Dodd-Frank nor Basel III nor... [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 8:11 am by Mandelman
Tax fraud, tax evasion, securities fraud, a fraud on the courts, a Ponzi scheme of Herculean proportion, the unqualified failure of our government’s regulatory and enforcement agencies… the money long gone to bankers in the form of mega-bonuses… and a group of Wall Street bankers confident that Congress will simply white wash over everything (read: socialize the debt) and send the bill to the American people. [read post]