Everyone's favorite rogue trader Jerome Kerviel started his new job Monday working as a trainee at Lemaire Consultants & Associates, a computer consulting firm, according to the International Herald Tribune. Kerviel's trades were blamed for Societe Generale SA's $7.72 billion in losses. - Maria Woehr
By Chelsea A. Grayson and Mary C. Warner, Jones Day
Terms and structures now used to get deals done are post-closing purchase price payments, earnouts, simultaneous acquisitions, rollups, payments in kind and joint ventures.