VIDEOS
May 2010
31 May 2010
Loan buybacks are stepping up, and not just by borrowers deleveraging on the cheap. The result of continuing low secondary market prices for some loans, this debt is up for grabs…
28 May 2010
Thanks to a shareholder class action lawsuit, GLG Partners must now be more forcefully questioning the structure of its proposed merger with the UK’s Man Group. While the deal would create…
24 May 2010
The traditional exit paths for venture capitalists seeking the biggest bang for their buck were traditionally IPOs or M&A transactions. With a recent spate of venture-backed IPOs and acquisitions, it might seem like there is plenty of liquidity. But…
21 May 2010
Once veiled by an iron curtain, more companies in the former Soviet bloc are stepping out of obscurity with western capital grabs as the curtain goes up on the economic performance of…
14 May 2010
The credit crisis has shifted to a credibility crisis for ratings agencies, besieged by the SEC and litigants alike. For Moody’s and McGraw-Hill (S&P's parent), legal woes are spreading and…
14 May 2010
The recent ruling of the B.C. Securities Commission in Icahn Partners LP and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp seems to suggest that securities regulators in Ontario, Alberta and B.C. do not see eye-to-eye...
7 May 2010
Goldman Sachs’s disclosure pendulum appears to have now sharply swung in the other direction. In so doing, Goldman may be charting a new course for itself, and arguably for the broader world of besieged public companies...
5 May 2010
BP’s filings are dripping with disclosures on its Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the contamination is spreading to other companies…