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1 Oct 2008, 6:07 pm
Here's the intro: Before the government stepped in last week, the bodies of financial institutions--Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and A.I.G., with Washington Mutual and even Morgan Stanley threatening to be next--were piling up so fast it seemed possible that Wall Street might simply cease to exist. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 5:00 pm
When Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, it created a significant regulatory gap by failing to give to the SEC or any agency the authority to regulate large investment bank holding companies, like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns. [read post]
28 Sep 2008, 3:10 pm
These accounts allow investment brokers, such as the financially unstable Merrill Lynch (acquired by Bank of America) and investment bank Lehman Brothers (which filed for bankruptcy), to manage the association’s funds for a fee. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 7:25 pm
The council's corporate governance guidelines have long backed proxy access and call on companies to give investors an annual, non-binding vote on compensation. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 5:11 pm
Although these arguments have been subject to a fair amount of criticism, events that have occurred over the last few days severely expose chinks in the U.S. model of corporate governance, and provide at least some anecdotal evidence that such model is questionable.The question that is being posed is: where was corporate governance when the CEOs and boards of directors of large and admired U.S. corporations such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae,… [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 1:54 pm
The good news is that trust assets managed by a corporate fiduciary such as Merrill Lynch & Co. don't go on the company's balance sheet. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 3:06 pm
In case WaMu goes the way of Merrill Lynch and is acquired, Fishman's severance package would be grossed up to compensate for any excise taxes related to change-in-control payments. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 1:20 pm
As The New York Times puts it: As late as 2004, financial services firms earned 28.3 percent of corporate America's total profits, according to Moody's Economy.com. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 11:55 am
Brands like CITI, MERRILL LYNCH, JP MORGAN, GOLDMAN SACHS, UBS, MORGAN STANLEY and AIG all lost ground over last year - and in the midst of this market correction, it’s a safe bet that these brands will continue to lose value over the next year. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 1:25 am
Run the Numbers: I have added the AIG bailout lawsuit and the Merrill Lynch/BoA lawsuit to my list of subprime and credit crisis-related derivative lawsuits, which can be accessed here. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 1:52 pm
Lack of Responsiveness on the Part of BoardsLeading shareholder activist, Carl Icahn, notes on his Blog, The Icahn Report:"What has transpired in recent weeks with Lehman Brothers, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Merrill Lynch is shocking. [read post]
20 Sep 2008, 3:49 am
Although these arguments have been subject to a fair amount of criticism, events that have occurred over the last few days severely expose chinks in the U.S. model of corporate governance, and provide at least some anecdotal evidence that such model is not infallible after all.The question that is being posed is: where was corporate governance when the CEOs and boards of directors of large and admired U.S. corporations such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Freddie Mac,… [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 9:00 pm
In that article he asks in a comparative way whether there is a link between the failures of Merrill Lynch, AIG and Lehman and their large corporate stock buybacks. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 5:55 pm
Going back to the firm will likely get even more difficult as additional attorneys from Lehman and Merrill Lynch flood the midlevel market. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 12:50 pm
The Lawyer kicks off with “The collapse of Lehman, the acquisition of Merrill Lynch and the effective privatisation of AIG has left dozens of lawyers facing life without their once lucrative client relationships. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 11:00 am
FACT: Merrill Lynch, which had been a top issuer of subprime investment vehicles, abruptly sold itself to Bank of America after suffering $45 billion in write-downs, more than double its profit for two years. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 4:37 pm
(I recently read that the merged Bank of America/Merrill Lynch will control customers' assets of 2.5 trillion dollars.) [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 12:11 pm
Lewis already had a new target in his sights: Merrill Lynch, The New York Times’s Eric Dash reports. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 9:25 am
Those firms that have regularly represented Merrill Lynch face the challenge of dealing with the investment bank's new owner.Merrill Lynch has had strong historical ties with Shearman & Sterling in particular, and the bank's present vice chairman and general counsel, Rosemary Berkery, began her career at the firm. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 5:48 pm
After getting up at the crack of dawn today, I saw the headlines about Lehman, Merrill Lynch and AIG. [read post]
