Societe Generale SA is hiring 5,500 staff in France this year, according to the Financial Times.
The bank looks like it is making a comeback from last January's rogue trading scandal courtesy of Jerome Kerviel. The scandal cost the bank $7.2 billion, but now even Kerviel has begun the recovering process. He has since been hired by computer consulting firm Lemaire Consultants & Associates. - 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.