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 Entries tagged "Freddie Mac"CIT uses Morgan Stanley, Evercore on restructuringDespite 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, 2009Stephen Lamb, a vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery since 1997, will join Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as a partner... Surveying the sandlotProposals to reregulate derivatives haven't even been submitted yet, and Congress is already bickering over who will control what. Movers & shakers: May 6, 2009Royal 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: March 3, 2009After 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 otherTurmoil. 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 chillLaw 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 itThe 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, 2009A 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 CDSsRegulators jockey to oversee Wall Street's latest villain. Grave dancersThe 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, 2009See 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 roomWhether it's single-cause explanations or the lone-bogeyman blame game, the media struggled to explain the unexplainable. Buyouts and banksA once-promising relationship has been marked by disaster, so what lessons are there for investors still intrigued by the bargains? Swap meetCredit 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 BritsAlong with Morgan Stanley bankers, Slaughter and May's George Seligman advised the U.K. on Bradford & Bingley. Uncle Sam likes Simpson ThacherSimpson Thacher attorneys are advising Treasury on its investments in U.S. banks. Shelter from the stormA report from the commercial real estate front. Take coverU.S. covered bonds are a potential alternative to residential mortgage finance. Mr. Toad's Wall Street RideRe-examining executive compensation in the post-Disney era. Enter the giantsAs bank consolidation accelerates, large questions await the day the crisis begins to recede. Risky BusinessHow better asset-liability management could have blunted the current financial crisis. Movers & shakers: Sept. 29, 2008Using a similar restructuring approach as mortgage lender Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac is streamlining its top management. Freddie's three business lines -- single family credit... A black-and-white movieThe FSA exorcises short sellers to punish the greedy, but what about transparency for governments? Taxpayers to the rescueThe 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-MerrillWachtell Lipton's Edward Herlihy led the legal team advising BofA in its $50B deal for Merrill Lynch. Treasury taps Morgan Stanley to advise on AIGHas 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, 2008The 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 testingFannie's and Freddie's bailouts triggered lots of credit default swaps, and so far, so good. A children's storyBazookas, bailouts and carny games: How the media brought Fannie and Freddie crashing down to earth. London creakingWill a trading breakdown at the LSE help alternative platforms? They'll try to use the fiasco as a marketing tool. When Treasury callsAlong with Robert Scully, Ruth Porat led the Morgan Stanley team advising Treasury on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Movers & shakers: Sept. 9, 2008Alan 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 orderThe 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 reallyFirst the president, then the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's good to hear from these guys. Don't ask, don't tellFrom 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 rumorsWho 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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