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8 May 2015, 4:15 am
” In addition, SEC Commissioner Stein delivered this speech, noting that the SEC should be evaluating whether action in this area is warranted… Activism & Buybacks: Seeking Board Seats to Apply Pressure This DealBook article describes how a former Goldman banker who was placed in General Motors by the Obama Administration as part of the bailout has now put himself up for a seat on the GM board, as part of a campaign from four hedge funds to persuade the company to buy back… [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 6:03 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * “Obviously, the concussion affected my judgment — oops, I shouldn’t say that, given my day job. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 3:15 am
Here is a New York Times piece on it. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/dealbook/british-regulator-fines-merrill-lynch-19-8-million-for-reporting-failures.html? [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 4:49 pm
In Defense of Stockholder Appraisal Litigation: In an April 16, 2015 article in the New York Times Dealbook column (here), Case Western Reserve University law Professor Charles Korsmo and Brooklyn Law School Professor Minor Myers make their case that stockholder appraisal litigation, as opposed to the more common (and much bemoaned) merger objection litigation, “plays a strongly beneficial role in mergers and acquisitions. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 6:05 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * U.S. [read post]
15 Apr 2015, 5:07 am
BlackRock Speaks Out Against Knee-Jerk Buybacks This DealBook column notes how BlackRock’s CEO has sent letters to the CEOs of 500 companies about buybacks and other issues. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm
Times “DealBook”] A Brooklyn mess: new D.A. looking into 70 convictions obtained with evidence from retired detective Louis Scarcella [Radley Balko] Tags: banks, crime and punishment, forfeiture, New York, NYC, prosecutionProsecution roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 8:33 am
Some interesting legal reads for the week of April 13, 2015: From DealBook, arguments in favor of allowing law firms to go public. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 3:44 am
This DealBook column raises a topic that I blogged about a while back. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 3:47 am
As noted in this DealBook column, this is even more notable given that it’s Judge Rakoff that sided with the SEC. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 6:04 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * Indiana has more than one controversial law on the books. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 6:05 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * After an incredibly unsuccessful defense of its ban on same-sex marriage, Wisconsin is going to have to shell out more than $1 million in legal fees to the ACLU -- the largest single payout yet by a state in the history of cases of this kind. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 5:53 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * People may think “this is a crappy, for-profit school that didn’t make it. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:08 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * Paul Ceglia, the alleged Facebook huckster who claimed he owned half of the social media company, may have escaped justice by removing his ankle monitor and disappearing, but his family had to forfeit his $250,000 bail yesterday. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 8:24 am
Also from DealBook, some criticism of the bar exam, including debate over a year-over-year decline in scores. [read post]
21 Mar 2015, 6:26 am
--Of the aftermath of the IPR, Dealbook noted:--Mr. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 6:03 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * Following layoffs in two other firms' litigation practices, McDermott Will & Emery is losing three of its top litigation partners. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 6:00 am
Court Strikes on Insider Trading, and Congress Lobs Back by Peter Henning in NYTimes.com’s DealBook The legislative proposals go much further than just overturning the approach to tipping liability adopted by the appeals court in the Newman case. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 10:58 am
., NACDL’s amicus curiae brief and DealBook’s article on narrowing white-collar criminal statutes) and invited prognostications on other high-profile cases under this statute, and others. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 3:53 am
As the New York Times Dealbook notes in a survey of how recent white collar crimes have been stretched by imaginative prosecutors to cover conduct that wasn’t meant to fall within their proscription, it’s a very real problem. [read post]
