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8 Mar 2010, 6:37 am
What if company #3 purchases all the assets of company #1 but a shell corporation remains? [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 5:00 am
Rakoff Backs BofA Accord, Unhappily By DAN FITZPATRICK, KARA SCANNELL And CHAD BRAY in the Wall Street Journal A federal judge harshly criticized but approved a $150 million settlement Monday between Bank of America Corp. and the Securities & Exchange Commission, resolving claims the bank should have disclosed billions in losses at Merrill Lynch & Co. before it was acquired by the bank. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 1:58 am
Outside of the massive Merrill Lynch settlements, the $80 million MoneyGram settlement is the largest subprime-related securities class action settlement so far. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 9:56 am
This year’s case studies examine the Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch and the German Model Case Act (KapMuG) in general and the Hypo Real Estate Holding AG case in particular. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 5:06 am
Bringing in the Vote: The Need to Get Creative During our recent snow-in here, I spent some time pondering how to get more people to vote in corporate elections. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 5:00 am
The Race to the Bottom discussed here the SEC’s original complaint against Bank of America (“BofA”), in which the SEC alleged that BofA failed to disclose bonuses to Merrill Lynch (“Merrill”) executives and employees. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 2:29 pm
However, this defense is simply not justified, because sophisticated people can’t bring their sophistication to bear when they are lied to – as Merrill Lynch apparently recognized recently when it paid the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System $550 million. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 12:05 am
BofA Counsel's Firing Not Caused by Merger Advice, SEC Says New York Law Journal In its ongoing battle to win court approval of a settlement with the Bank of America, the SEC insisted Wednesday that the bank's former GC, Timothy Mayopoulos, did not lose his job because he gave unwelcome advice about the bank's takeover of Merrill Lynch. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 9:08 am
Mayopoulos was terminated because he wanted to disclose widening losses at Merrill Lynch before the deal closed. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 9:51 am
The fine represents BOA’s penalty for failing to disclose the extent of Merrill Lynch’s losses to BOA’s shareholders prior to voting on BOA’s merger with ML. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 6:50 am
Time will tell whether Thain can achieve for CIT what he did for NYSE and Merrill Lynch. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 1:02 pm
Rakoff on the SEC/BofA: New York federal judge Jed Rakoff didn’t look so kindly at the last settlement proposal sent his way by the SEC and Bank of America over disclosures (or lack thereof) concerning bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives around the time of the BofA/Merrill merger. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 3:15 am
Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of New York and Western District of North Carolina, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and the FBI into the circumstances of Bank of America’s merger with Merrill Lynch and its receipt of additional TARP funds. [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 1:53 am
But even if the value to shareholders is substantial, the renewed deal still does not avoid Judge Rakoff’s earlier concerns that BofA’s shareholders are being forced to bear the cost for having been misled about the Merrill Lynch transaction. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 3:30 pm
Price for duping shareholders and the federal government in order to complete a merger with Merrill Lynch. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
Bank management failed to disclose that by December 5, 2008, the day Bank of America shareholders voted to approve the merger with Merrill Lynch, Merrill had incurred actual pretax losses of more than $16 billion. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 1:00 pm
Third, the failure of the SEC to address the losses by Merrill Lynch in the first case (the complaint only involved issues around the representation that the bank had not approved the bonuses for Merrill when, it was alleged, they in fact had) and the confusion of the reliance on counsel argument suggested that the Agency had not been thorough in its investigation, lending credence to the suggestion by BofA that this case was best explained through government coercion. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 11:35 am
, Cuomo remarked, "We believe bank management understated the Merrill Lynch losses to shareholders to get shareholders to approve the deal then [turned around and] overstated their ability to terminate the agreement to get $20 billion from [the] federal government. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 11:18 am
The complaint alleges that Merrill Lynch had significant losses in [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 10:05 am
In addition to the fine, Bank of America agreed to install numerous corporate-governance measures. [read post]
