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CIT uses Morgan Stanley, Evercore on restructuring

Despite tapping Evercore's Roger Altman and Morgan Stanley's Ruth Porat, who advised the Fed on AIG, troubled CIT still failed to secure government assistance.


Movers & shakers: July 30, 2009

Stephen Lamb, a vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery since 1997, will join Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as a partner...


Movers & shakers: July 21, 2009

Fortress Investment Group LLC said board member Daniel Mudd will become the firm's CEO, effective Aug. 11. Mudd was most recently president and CEO of...


Surveying the sandlot

Proposals to reregulate derivatives haven't even been submitted yet, and Congress is already bickering over who will control what.


Movers & shakers: May 6, 2009

Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc said finance director Guy Whittaker will step down from the board and leave the bank later this year when...


Movers & shakers: April 22, 2009

Government-controlled mortgage lender Fannie Mae appointed Michael Williams as president, CEO and a board director. Williams succeeds Herbert Allison Jr., who was nominated to be...


Movers & shakers: April 21, 2009

President Obama nominated Herbert Allison Jr. to succeed Neel Kashkari as head of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Allison (pictured) would be assistant...


Movers & shakers: March 3, 2009

After the U.S. government took control of Freddie Mac, David Moffett was named CEO of the mortgage giant. Six months later, Moffett is telling the...


A year unlike any other

Turmoil. Chaos. Bailouts. Conventional deals in 2008 were rare. Many of those that mattered, like Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan Chase, involved the government.


Winter's chill

Law firms struggle to cope with deal markets that have gone deathly quiet. The comparison: Silicon Valley after the dot-com bust.


Don't bank on it

The Blackstone-Alliance dust up shows just how hard it is for private equity firms to buy into financial services, and the M&A bar gets ready for Tulane.


Transactions: Jan. 26, 2009

A new president is inaugurated and history is made. But as long as we conflate the markets and politics, what can Obama say that has any long-term staying power?


Extreme makeover: Reining in the CDSs

Regulators jockey to oversee Wall Street's latest villain.


Grave dancers

The heavy hitters lay retrospective claims to the meltdown of '08. Can this crisis be tarted up into bestsellers without the presence of splashy villains?


Movers & shakers: Jan. 1, 2009

See who made partner New Year's and who's in and out at some high-profile firms, including Freddie Mac, Solamere Capital and more.


The elephant in the room

Whether it's single-cause explanations or the lone-bogeyman blame game, the media struggled to explain the unexplainable.


Buyouts and banks

A once-promising relationship has been marked by disaster, so what lessons are there for investors still intrigued by the bargains?


Citi directors call in Cravath

Citigroup's board has tapped Cravath's Robert Joffe for advice on the bank's many challenges.


Movers & shakers: Dec. 1, 2008

Fannie Mae, which was taken over by the U.S. government in early September, appointed David Johnson as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Johnson...


The exodus begins

The first high-profile departure from the SEC announced since the election is Corporation Finance Division Director John White.


Swap meet

Credit default swaps get the attention of regulators, exchanges and clearinghouses, but how the process will settle is anyone's guess.


Morgan Stanley hobnobs with the Brits

Along with Morgan Stanley bankers, Slaughter and May's George Seligman advised the U.K. on Bradford & Bingley.


Uncle Sam likes Simpson Thacher

Simpson Thacher attorneys are advising Treasury on its investments in U.S. banks.


The world below the bulge

Boutique i-banks are holding steady for now, but the future remains uncertain.


A second set of eyes

Cravath's Robert Joffe is emerging as a go-to guy for boards of stressed companies seeking their own counsel.


Shelter from the storm

A report from the commercial real estate front.


Take cover

U.S. covered bonds are a potential alternative to residential mortgage finance.


Mr. Toad's Wall Street Ride

Re-examining executive compensation in the post-Disney era.


Enter the giants

As bank consolidation accelerates, large questions await the day the crisis begins to recede.


Risky Business

How better asset-liability management could have blunted the current financial crisis.


Movers & shakers: Sept. 29, 2008

Using a similar restructuring approach as mortgage lender Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac is streamlining its top management. Freddie's three business lines -- single family credit...


Cram

Major financial crises are, at bottom, political crises. After a year of meltdowns and bailouts, it's testing time for Congress and the administration.


A Drexel-trained doctor

Lazard's Barry Ridings weighs in on the Lehman restructuring.


A black-and-white movie

The FSA exorcises short sellers to punish the greedy, but what about transparency for governments?


Movers & shakers: Sept. 23, 2008

Mortgage lender Fannie Mae, taken over by the government on Sept. 7, announced several resignations: Chief business officer Peter Niculescu (pictured), executive vice president and...


Taxpayers to the rescue

The Fed and Treasury race to put out fires in high finance. But don't expect big ideas to fix the regulatory apparatus anytime soon.


Wachtell's Herlihy leads charge in BofA-Merrill

Wachtell Lipton's Edward Herlihy led the legal team advising BofA in its $50B deal for Merrill Lynch.


Treasury taps Morgan Stanley to advise on AIG

Has Morgan Stanley become the go-to investment bank for the U.S. government? When the U.S. Department of Treasury hired a financial adviser -- the first...


Movers & shakers: Sept. 18, 2008

The Federal Housing Finance Agency appointed John Koskinen as non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac and Philip Laskawy (pictured left) as non-executive chairman of Fannie Mae....


Stress testing

Fannie's and Freddie's bailouts triggered lots of credit default swaps, and so far, so good.


A children's story

Bazookas, bailouts and carny games: How the media brought Fannie and Freddie crashing down to earth.


London creaking

Will a trading breakdown at the LSE help alternative platforms? They'll try to use the fiasco as a marketing tool.


When Treasury calls

Along with Robert Scully, Ruth Porat led the Morgan Stanley team advising Treasury on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.


Movers & shakers: Sept. 9, 2008

Alan Fishman (pictured), former chairman of commercial mortgage brokerage firm Meridian Capital Group, has been named CEO of Washington Mutual Inc. He replaces Kerry Killinger,...


Out of order

The regulatory system that oversees America's stressed-out financial industry needs an overhaul, but don't expect any big changes soon.


Cox and why naked shorting is sorta bad, but not really

First the president, then the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's good to hear from these guys.


Don't ask, don't tell

From Chuck Schumer to Richard X. Bove, negative nabobs are getting hammered for triggering off financial heart attacks. Luckily the SEC is on the case.


A few more comments on rumors

Who would have thought that the blogosphere would light up like a Christmas tree over a normally arcane debate about rumors and short selling?...



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