The state of Calabasas

FocalPoint Partners carves out an investment banking niche. Originally focused on M&A and capital raisings, with the great recession, it now has turned to distressed and restructuring work.

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Creditors are increasingly eager to engage in credit bids — using debt owed to them to either buy companies out of bankruptcy or preserve their value. It's not for the fainthearted.

The right technology can transform your pedestrian bathroom into a 21st century, full-sensory immersion experience — if you're willing to pay for it. Mr. Bubble never had it so good.

Federal jurist Jed Rakoff throws out the SEC's settlement with Bank of America, earning kudos and criticism. The parties had hoped the settlement would spare them costly litigation over the bonus disclosures and perhaps the obligation to reveal uncomfortable details of how the Merrill Lynch acquisition came together.

Major Wall Street figure for three decades was a bridge between the old and the new.

Ben Horowitz talks about Andreessen Horowitz's investments in Skype and Apptio.

Behind closed doors and drowned out by the din of the healthcare debate, Wall Street wages a quiet war to forestall tougher regulations for the nuanced and largely unregulated derivatives market.

After months of testimony and argument, the hearing over the Charter bankruptcy recommences. Ahead: a settlement or perhaps a precedent.

Vivendi's latest dealmaking foray makes sense, but once-burned investors will wait and see. To some, the company's bid for Brazil's GVT Holding has many of the hallmarks of a classic Vivendi misadventure.

British officials are grumbling about Berlin's attempts to saddle it with some of the costs of the Opel deal. But they won't stop the sale.

The search for new sources of revenue takes Atheros, a scrappy survivor of the WiFi chip shakeout, in a risky new direction.

The leveraged loan market gets a little hope with a financing for Warner Chilcott.

IBasis majority shareholder Royal KPN seeks to buy in the rest of the company. Meanwhile, a Landry's shareholder suit fails to deter CEO Fertitta from making a second run at the company.

Afew weeks back, Thomas Friedman gave a thumbs-up to leaders of China and a Bronx cheer to America's democratic representatives, which he tut-tutted as a...

The media engages in an orgy of Lehman Brothers retrospectives, raising the question: Did we learn anything new?

A class action against bankrupt Charter Communications could reopen concerns about analyst-banking conflicts.

Writing with biting sarcasm, federal appeals judges last month struck down federal limits on how many subscribers one cable operator can serve. The FCC had capped the limit at 30%.

A more disciplined industry will make fewer mistakes, weaker players will disappear, and the barriers to entry may grow, likely allowing for more consistent returns for more demanding investors.

Deal noncompetes in California are easy to get wrong.

BDO is tops among noninvestment banks for first time. See the full set of bankruptcy league tables including consultants, attorneys and bankers.

The U.S, must adapt to VC slowdown and encourage innovation. And it must realign its policies to do more to encourage innovation and maintain its leadership in global technology development.

When Cadbury needed advisers to help fend off Kraft, it turned to people it knew.

The announcement of Pacific Century's agreement to buy AIG's asset management unit left out Goldman.

Johnson & Johnson takes advantage after a court ruling leaves Elan vulnerable.