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Bonds
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White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Bonds Indicted
By Ellen Podgor
KTVU.com has a story with a headline of, "Bonds Indicted By BALCO Federal Grand Jury." Press reports say the charges are perjury and obstruction of justice. (Wall Street Jrl (AP)…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Bank of America Refuses to Cash Eighty Year Old Woman’s Bond
In April of 1984, Bette Miller and her now deceased husband Laurence entrusted their $5,000 to Rainier Bank by purchasing a bond. Because the bond on its face indicated that…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Another Bond Offering Cancelled
Underwriters called off a $1.15 billion sale of bonds to pay for the ServiceMaster LBO. Like other recent debt offerings, investors were unhappy with the payment-in-kind provision, which gives companies…
Securities Law Prof Blog
U.S. Foodservice LBO Financing Cancelled ; Beginning of the End to the LBO Boom?
Investor pushback has hit the LBO bond market, as underwriters for U.S. Foodservice pulled a $1.55 billion LBO bond offering and postponed plans to sell another $2 billion in loans…
Pension Risk Matters
Bond Demand Influenced by Pensions
There is a lot of evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, that various capital markets are affected by policy. The impact on price and trading volume depends on a host of factors,…
ContractsProf Blog
Caveat lender
A bankrupt firm in Italy is suing the banks who helped it issue the bonds it defaulted on. Parmalat Finanziaria SpA claims that Italy’s UniCredito Italiano SpA and America’s J.P.…