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Detroit recovery plan a negative for bondholders-Moody’s

Thu May 16, 2013 11:15am EDT May 16 (Reuters) – A financial recovery plan released on Monday by a state-appointed emergency manager running Detroit has negative consequences for the city’s bondholders, Moody’s Investors Service said on Thursday.”The plan is negative Read more »

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Ally, ResCap creditors race to finalize settlement

Tue May 14, 2013 9:20am EDT May 14 (Reuters) – Ally Financial Inc must sign a deal to resolve claims that it owes billions of dollars to creditors of its Residential Capital LLC unit by 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday (1500 Read more »

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BRIEF-Ally, Rescap creditors reach settlement in principle – ResCap’s CRO

Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and Read more »

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Commerzbank mulls platform to operate seized ships with partners

FRANKFURT | Tue May 14, 2013 11:48am EDT FRANKFURT May 14 (Reuters) – Commerzbank, Germany’s second-biggest lender, said it is considering launching a platform to operate ships in a bid to recover higher values from the vessels that it seizes Read more »

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Ally, ResCap creditors reach settlement

Tue May 14, 2013 11:56am EDT May 14 (Reuters) – Bankrupt Residential Capital LLC said on Tuesday that parent Ally Financial Inc reached a private settlement with ResCap creditors, who say Ally owes them $25 billion.The deal will keep sealed Read more »

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Bulgaria resumes sale of ailing arms plant

SOFIA | Tue May 14, 2013 12:04pm EDT SOFIA May 14 (Reuters) – Bulgaria on Tuesday resumed the sale of state-owned arms maker VMZ Sopot, aiming to attract a strategic investor to overhaul the debt-laden plant and funds for the Read more »

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UPDATE 1-Ally reaches deal with ResCap creditors

Tue May 14, 2013 12:32pm EDT * Deal allows Ally to shed links to mortgage lending * Settlement details likely next week * Examiner’s report remains sealed until May 23 By Nick Brown and Tom Hals May 14 (Reuters) – Read more »

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California cities to remain ‘fiscally challenged’-Moody’s

WASHINGTON | Tue May 14, 2013 12:48pm EDT WASHINGTON May 14 (Reuters) – Many California cities are showing signs of improvement, but limits on raising revenues, swelling pension costs and other pressures will leave them “fiscally challenged over the next Read more »

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Kirkland Cleans Up on PE Shop’s $1.4 Billion Buy

By&nbspBrian BaxterContactAll Articles The Am Law DailyMay 15, 2013 Kirkland & Ellis clinched its latest large M&A deal on Wednesday as private equity client Pamplona Capital Management acquired the largest laundry equipment service provider in the U.S., as well as Read more »

Ropes Settles Age Discrimination Suit With Ex-Partner

Ropes & Gray has settled a two-year-old discrimination lawsuit brought by former partner Patricia Martone, who claimed Ropes management routinely passed her clients off to younger male partners and unfairly pushed her out of the firm.In a one-page stipulation filed Read more »

DISH Selling Debt Ahead of Possible Sprint Deal

A month after shaking up the telecommunications industry by making a $25.5 billion bid to acquire Sprint Nextel, DISH Network has announced a $2.5 billion debt offering meant to help finance part of the proposed deal. Read more »

Ugliness Inside the Am Law 100—Part II

In Part I of this series, I explored the possibility that a key metric—average partner profits—has lost much of its value as a measurement of anything meaningful about big law firms. Read more »

The Score: Dentons Partner Doubles as Fantasy Sports Pro

Like many lawyers, Glenn Colton is a baseball fan. But the Dentons white-collar and government investigations practice chair has taken his love for America’s national pastime to the next level, scoring his own fantasy baseball column for NBC Sports’s Rotoworld Read more »

Law Suit Filed: Viacom Video Music Awards Spam Text Messages

May 16 2013 Los Angeles, CA: Viacom, parent company of MTV is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it sent out unsolicited, promotional text messages to people who voted in the 2011 Video Music Awards (VMAs), in violation of the Read more »

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