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9 Oct 2008, 3:38 am
[JURIST] The British government on Wednesday froze nearly $4 billion in UK financial assets [Treasury press release; Daily Mail report] held by the failed Icelandic bank Landsbanki [corporate website], exercising its powers under the 2001 Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act [text]. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 2:49 am
And the counterparty on Buffett’s first transaction while a brand new trader at Graham-Newman investment bank -- a complex arbitrage deal involving cocoa beans and cocoa bean futures -- was a shrewd investor named Jay Pritzker, whose family business, Marmon Corporation, Buffett would agree to buy in a multi-billion dollar transaction in late 2007 (refer here). [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 7:40 pm
These arrangements are used frequently in closely held corporations in order to provide market-mimicking protection for investors, particularly minority shareholders, in closely-held firms. [read post]
5 Oct 2008, 6:55 pm
The next day, Lehmans filed for bankruptcy protection. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 2:56 pm
Investors and creditors decided that the elimination of debt overhang and the avoidance of threatened corporate bankruptcies more than offset the cost to creditors of receiving 60 cents on the dollar. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 9:36 am
We do not believe that any legitimate investor protection goal is served by this significant restriction which continues to apply many years after a company ceases to be a shell. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 7:43 pm
Corporate governance reform advocates routinely call for companies to establish stock ownership requirements including imposing hold until retirement (HTR) policies for equity awards held by company officers (see for example the September-October 2008 issue of The Corporate Executive). [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 2:10 am
Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 3:10 pm
The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) was created in 1970 as a non-profit, non-government, membership corporation, funded by member broker-dealers. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 11:45 pm
(The TTABlog) (Law360) (Law360) (Post Grant Opposition) (IP Spotlight) Department of Justice letter to Senators Specter and Leahy on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Right Act of 2008: don't make us be Big Content's copyright cops (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (EFF) (Techdirt) (EXCESS COPYRIGHT) (Public Knowledge) OHIM: Extraordinary Join Meeting on 'How to better balance OHIM's budget - the way forward': CTM fees to fall (Out-Law) (Class 46) (IAM) (Managing… [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 10:19 pm
" In providing updated guidance, the SEC hopes to encourage companies to continue to develop their web sites in compliance with the federal securities laws so that they can serve as effective information and analytical tools for investors. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 10:19 pm
" In providing updated guidance, the SEC hopes to encourage companies to continue to develop their web sites in compliance with the federal securities laws so that they can serve as effective information and analytical tools for investors. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 1:25 am
In addition, in a completely different aspect of the current crisis, market participants who depended on Lehman for credit default protection will also be reporting the consequences of Lehman’s demise. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 6:01 pm
Maybe not officially, but believe me, there's puh-LENTY of pressure to water down proposed rules that would give more government oversight and investor protection.Sometimes they win.Regardless of whether something would protect investors or make financial institutions more accountable for what they do, how they do it and how they account for it, lobbyists and special interests are always right there to whine -- It would be too much work to implement those regulations… [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 12:15 pm
In other words, he was antagonistic towards regulation, targeted the areas that were mostly designed to protect shareholders and investors, had an inflated view of the power of the market to correct all evils with government (and plaintiffs) best kept out of the process. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 5:56 am
Liddy, the former chairman of Allstate Corporation. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 5:37 pm
When subprime mortgage lending took a reckless and unsustainable turn, a patchwork of regulators systematically and deliberately eliminated the regulations protecting the American people and failed to raise warning flags that could have protected investors and the pensions American workers count on. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 2:22 am
The damage from Lehman’s collapse will be widespread, as investors holding its shares and even its debt securities will likely see little or nothing on their investment. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 5:48 pm
After spending over six years as an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the late '90s and a little beyond, I can tell you that no matter what kind of leash, and no matter how slack that leash was that regulators tried to put on the banking and investment world, lobbyists and corporations won out more often than not. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 4:03 pm
In cases such as this, Lehman Brothers' customers will benefit from their extensive protections under SEC rules, including segregation of customer securities and cash as well as insurance by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. [read post]
