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4 Feb 2009, 2:33 am
An increase of over 50,000, the majority of which were announced on "Black Monday," January 26th, by the following companies: Caterpillar (20,000)Pfizer (8,000)Sprint Nextel (8,000)Home Depot (7,000)General Motors (2,000)Microsoft/Intel (10,000)Two corporate legal departments that have been in the news recently, Wyeth and Merrill Lynch, have been going forward with legal department layoffs - cutting into the highest levels, including GC's.As reported by… [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 5:38 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The ongoing contretemps involving John Thain's recent dismissal from Merrill Lynch is once again (and unfortunately) an object lesson for corporate insiders and outsiders in the subtleties of judgment. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 1:21 am
" This lynch mob mentality is familiar to those who recall the public outcry that accompanied the last era of corporate scandals. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 9:00 am
And how much did the Merrill Lynch directors make in the last year reported (for fiscal year 2007)? [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 1:54 am
Commentators have questioned, for example, whether Citigroup should be nationalized (refer here) or if the Merrill Lynch-related losses might cost Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis his job (refer here). [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 6:22 am
If Merrill Lynch is acquired by Bank of America (for example), won't it be BofA's and not Merrill's culture that prevails? [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 9:58 am
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 when it paid the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System $550 million. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 7:39 am
Look at the likes of Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial, whose unbridled lending excesses helped trigger the mortgage meltdown; former Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal, and Charles Prince, the former CEO who paved the way for Citigroup's precipitous tumble. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 5:19 am
We've blogged before about how years of corporate immunity in the financial world has led to disastrous results. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 9:59 pm
The large majority of these assets were assumed by Bank of America as a result of its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 6:17 am
Furthermore, most of the sale was funded with a loan from Merrill Lynch. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:01 pm
The major creditors of the fund included Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, all of which went on to lend and invest recklessly and, to one degree or another, pay the consequences. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 9:41 pm
., together with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Merrill Lynch Capital Corp., the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Vertis, Inc. and the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Local 32035. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 4:57 pm
Also, Bank of America buys legal services very differently than did Merrill Lynch. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 12:46 pm
There can be periods--5, 7, 10, even 15 years--when that isn't the case, but corporate performance always reverts to a lower level than the market because the economy is changing at a faster pace and on a larger scale than any individual company so far has been able to do without losing control [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 5:07 pm
Even John Thain of Merrill Lynch only folded in his request for a $10 million bonus under outside pressure. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 10:11 pm
Under pressure from inside and outside Merrill Lynch, John Thain, Merrill’s CEO, has decided to “voluntarily” forgo a bonus for 2008, according to the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 8:21 pm
In recent years, he's become the go-to guy in advising board of directors (among them, Citigroup Inc., General Motors Corporation, and Merrill Lynch & Co.). [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 9:52 pm
This potentially could become a process for the administration of a thousand cuts – and it potentially affects not just UBS, but Citicorp, Wachovia, Merrill Lynch and the other large institutions (or their successors in interest) that tried to effect a comprehensive solution to the auction rate securities debacle. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 6:01 am
And the Fifth Circuit has largely eviscerated the notorious Nigerian Barge prosecution in which Merrill Lynch served up four executives to Weissmann to avoid an indictment of the firm. [read post]
