Posts Tagged ‘the-firm’
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
Why are we talking about Bain Capital again? The answer, it seems, is that the two presidential campaigns want it that way. The Romney campaign wants us talking about Bain Capital LLC because Mitt Romney says his time leading the firm prepared him for the presidency. Read full article > >

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Why neither Obama nor Romney wants to talk about Romney’s record
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
All past and present partners could lose pensions, and recent partners will probably lose investments in the firm and could be forced to return salaries as the firm closes.
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Dewey Partners and Retirees Face Huge Financial Losses
Tags: art, border, dewey & leboeuf, fcc, firm, Investments, pension, pensions, personal bankruptcies, present-partners, retirement, return-salaries, the-firm
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt sought “private advice” over phone hacking, an email sent to ex-News International boss Rebekah Brooks by the firm’s PR chief suggests.

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Hunt ‘sought News Corp guidance’
Tags: culture, firm, hacking, hunt, international, Jeremy Hunt, mai, News, over-phone, private-advice, rebekah-brooks, sec, secret, secretary, the-firm
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs “willfully violated” federal law by holding weekly “huddles” through which there was at least the potential for the firm’s analysts to offer Goldman’s own traders and favored clients a preview of the firm’s investment research, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. Read full article > >

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Goldman fined $22M for ‘willfully’ violating law on information-sharing, SEC says
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
The chief executive of US electronics retailer Best Buy, Brian Dunn, resigns after the firm’s recent poor performance.

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Best Buy chief executive resigns
Tags: after-the-firm, brian, chief-executive, cut, poor, recent-poor, resign, the-firm
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Lawmakers asked Christine Serwinski, the chief financial officer for the firm’s North America operations, why she didn’t tell regulators about her concerns before the firm’s bankruptcy.
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DealBook: MF Global Employees Say They Are Cooperating With Investigation
Tags: ban, before-the-firm, christ, cia, edith o'brien, firm, laurie ferber, Law, mf global, mf global ltd, north, the-firm
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
A letter from Apple’s legal team reveals that the firm wants Europe to revise rules covering patents that are essential to industry standards.

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Apple seeks revised patent rules
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Some persistence is merely doggedness. Newt Gingrich’s persistence is a form of confidence — the firm belief that, given enough time and enough debates, his skills will prevail. He knows how to probe an opponent’s weakness, how to humiliate a journalist, how to employ an applause line and how to parry an uncomfortable question. The anti-Romneys who came before him were chosen more or less at random. Gingrich has earned his surge that produced a 13-point victory in South Carolina on Saturday. Read full article > >
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Newt Gingrich, the man who knows too much
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
The sinking of the Costa Concordia could cost parent firm Carnival up to $95m (£62m; 75m euro), the firm says.

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Ship sinking costs Carnival $95m
Tags: 75m-euro, carnival, cost, costa, costa-concordia, euro, firm, king, parent-firm, rent, the-firm
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
The rights to Marvel Comics hero Ghost Rider – played by Nicholas Cage in two films – belong to the firm and not the writer who conceived him, a judge rules.
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Writer loses Ghost Rider battle
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Federal authorities have uncovered e-mails that detail the transfers of money in the firm’s last days, including transfers that contained customer money, according to people close to the investigation.
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DealBook: E-Mail Clues in Tracking MF Global Client Funds
Tags: border, customer-money, Financial services, including-transfers, investigation, jon s. corzine, jpmorgan chase &, mf global ltd, Money, the-firm, top headline 1
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
The UK’s economy is experiencing weak growth but inflation pressures have eased, according to the firm behind closely-watched surveys.

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Surveys ‘point to weak UK growth’
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has consulted with a Washington consulting firm staffed by former CIA agents and U.S. diplomats for public-relations advice following his arrest for sexual assualt. Strauss-Kahn previously hired the firm, TD…
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Strauss-Kahn Taps Ex-CIA Firm
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
The president of Tepco, which operates the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, resigns as the firm reports a $15bn loss.

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Tepco head quits after $15bn loss
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
As its original partners leave, the elite at Goldman Sachs hold less control over the firm, giving way to the demands of outside shareholders. And the partners’ power base may soon erode further.
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DealBook: A Once-Tight Flock at Goldman, Now Scattered
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