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17 Jun 2014, 11:17 am
Fines Hedge Fund in Demotion of Whistle-Blowing Employee by Alexandra Stevenson in NYTimes.com’s Dealbook Paradigm Settles With SEC in Whistleblower Case by Rachel Louise Ensign in the Wall Street Journal A Weekend of Whistleblowing [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 1:38 pm
[DealBook / New York Times (gavel bang: TaxProf Blog)] * So as I read this, someone who definitely bought prostitutes to influence people is accusing someone else of allegedly buying prostitutes to influence people. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 6:57 am
[Victor Fleischer, NYT "DealBook" via TaxProf; earlier on pen-and-phone executive orders here, etc.] [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 12:02 pm
Victor Fleischer has a short piece in today's NY Times Dealbook suggesting that the Treasury Department, at the behest of the Obama Administration, could simply flex its regulatory muscles and eliminate the current practice whereby investment fund managers commonly treat compensation that takes the form of "carried interest" as yielding long-term capital gain that is taxed at only a 20 percent rate, rather than ordinary income that typically would face a 39.6 percent… [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 8:59 am
Henning in the New York Times’ DealBook In Defense of GM by Eric Posner in Slate. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 6:08 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * U. of Maine wants to combine its business and law schools, but professors are concerned about pressing questions like, “What will the diploma say? [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 8:14 am
New York Times DealBook reported today that ALM Media will be acquired by an investor consortium led by Wasserstein & Co. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 4:36 am
Here are a few articles on this: - Davis Polk’s “SEC Commissioners Emphasize Focus on Individuals, Including Lawyers, in Enforcement Cases, and Brings an Auditor Independence Action Against an Audit Partner” - Dodd-Frank.com’s “Mary Jo White Explains Enforcement Action Decisions” - DealBook’s “S.E.C. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 4:12 am
Here’s news from DealBook’s Steven Davidoff: The hedge fund Merion Capital might have hit a roadblock in its multimillion-dollar appraisal proceedings involving the $1.6 billion buyout of Ancestry.com. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 11:17 am
Some interesting legal reads for the week of June 2, 2014: DealBook’s Steven M. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 6:08 am
” [DealBook / New York Times] * “Why would you bring black people into the world? [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 4:17 am
Here are articles about Ackman’s initial approach: - WSJ’s “Lawmaker Raises Concerns to SEC About Ackman’s Allergan Referendum” - Representative Royce’s Letter to SEC asking for review of the innovative Pershing Square plan - The Activist Investor’s “Annals of Investor Relations: What CEOs Really Think of Investors” - DealBook’s “In Allergan Bid, a Question of Insider Trading” - The Activist Investor’s “A… [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 11:00 am
New York Times DealBook: To Get an A in Philanthropy Class, Give Away $50,000, by William Alden: Vinay Sridharan must make it through microeconomic theory and the writings of Proust before the end of his senior year at Northwestern in June. [read post]
30 May 2014, 6:06 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * “We can’t turn law schools into graduate school for the study of law,” says a law prof who thinks legal education is straying from being professional education. [read post]
29 May 2014, 7:00 am
Davidoff, the New York Times DealBook’s Deal Professor, has a good outline of the various unforeseen consequences of Regulation FD that have unfolded since its adoption by the SEC in 2000. [read post]
28 May 2014, 6:08 am
[DealBook / New York Times] * We’ve got some breaking news for our readers from the “no sh*t” department: Law school graduates are still having a very tough time getting jobs as lawyers, and there is no real end in sight. [read post]
27 May 2014, 7:00 am
DealBook reports on a study showing that “go shop” M&A provisions have a counterintuitively negative effect on sale proceeds. [read post]
27 May 2014, 4:04 am
There was an article in DealBook about the scandal at NYU over labor conditions associated with its Abu Dhabi campus and the corporate governance issues raised by the matter. [read post]
21 May 2014, 2:27 pm
Some interesting legal reads for the week of May 19, 2014: DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on the relatively long time (10 days) allowed for reporting the acquisition of a 5% equity stake of public companies, and the potential for abuse by activist investors. [read post]
19 May 2014, 1:36 pm
New York Times DealBook: Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty in Felony Case: Credit Suisse has done what no other bank of its size and significance has done in over two decades: plead guilty to criminal wrongdoing. [read post]
