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Entries tagged "General Motors"

Cheap trick

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.

Traffic jam

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.

Gerber at the wheel

Chrysler's ride through bankruptcy kept Judge Robert Gerber busy. Now he must drive the even larger, and possibly more contentious GM bankruptcy through court. He will have to draw upon prior experience overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings of Adelphia, Global Crossing and Lyondell Chemical.

AlixPartners drives GM

AlixPartners will oversee the dismantling of up to 20 GM factories and a handful of brands. Meanwhile, Weil's GM bankruptcy team is led by Harvey Miller.

Movers & shakers: March 17, 2009

New York's Evercore Partners Inc. created a joint venture with Citic Securities International Co. Ltd., launching Citic Securities International Partners Ltd. The firm will focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions advisory and investment management, sourcing deals between China and other international markets. CSIP will also manage a $500 million China-focused private equity business.

Movers & shakers: Feb. 25, 2009

Steven Rattner, managing principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, the private equity firm he co-founded nine years ago, will leave the firm to join the Treasury...

Transactions: Nov. 17, 2008

Fifty years ago John Kenneth Galbraith described the connection between finance, consumers and, in so many words, loose money. We're now defined by that tightly bound combination.

Crash test

General Motors may never end up in bankruptcy protection. But if it did, what would the unthinkable look like, and why?

Clear-cut solution

Scientists find a way to end the financial crisis.

When Treasury calls

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

Riders on the storm

When Cerberus bought GMAC, it was flying high, but soaring gas prices, a stumbling economy and a troubled housing market are threatening the firm's image as a master of tricky bailouts.