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Tribune Begins Tender Offer for One-Half its Shares
Tribune began the first stage of its $8.2 billion LBO by commencing the tender offer for one-half its shares at $34 per share. Meanwhile, Tribune's deteriorating financial condition raises questions…
Legal Profession Blog
The “Do We Need to Know…” Trilogy: Part 1 – The Artichoke Answer
In a review session for Secured Transactions (Article 9) yesterday, a student asked (with some obvious trepidation, knowing how erratic my behavior can become when faced with this question) whether…
M & A Law Prof Blog
KKR’s Winning European Toehold
Alliance Boots Plc, a U.K.-based pharmacy chain and pharmaceutical wholesaler, yesterday endorsed an offer to be acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KKR's bid group included Italian billionaire Stefano…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Apple’s Former CFO Settles With SEC
By Ellen Podgor
According to the Wall Street Jrl here, Apple's Former CFO settled civil matters with the SEC.(esp) …
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC IPO Study Finds No Evidence of Naked Short-Selling
SEC staff economists studied 295 IPOs over a sixteen month period beginning January 2005 and finds no evidence that failures to deliver share resulted from manipulation or naked short-selling. Instead,…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Commissioner Atkins on Competitiveness of US Markets
Excerpts from Remarks Before the Security Traders Association of New York 71st Annual Conference by Commissioner Paul S. Atkins, April 19, 2007:[Discussing the three recent studies on U.S. Capital Markets'…
The D&O Diary
Arbitrating Shareholder Claims: Coming Soon?
Two of the recent reports of blue ribbon groups looking at the competitiveness of U.S. capital markets recommended among other things that the SEC should consider permitting public companies to…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC’s Thomsen on Mutual Fund Directors
Chairman Cox and Commissioner Nazareth have already spoken at the 7th Annual Mutual Fund Directors Meeting, and now it's SEC Enforcement Director Linda Chatman Thomsen's turn. Here is an excerpt:I,…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Sherwin on Mutual Fund Reform
The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation: Lessons from the SEC's Stalled Mutual Fund Reform Effort, by EDWARD SHERWIN, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, was recently posted…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Icahn Still Looks for Board Representation at Motorola
Carl Icahn, holder of 2.9% of Motorola, said in a letter to shareholders filed with the SEC that he still wants a seat on the board and doesn't understand why…