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...Mr Kamensky, who was a member of an official committee of unsecured creditors, then sought to pressure Jefferies to back off from making another bid for the securities, prosecutors said....
...Obama administration officials took the lead in seeking more stringent rules for what the Basel committee of banking supervisors calls “specialised lending”....
...Nuclear power in France went from 4 per cent of the country’s electricity supply in 1970 to nearly 40 per cent in 1982, for instance....
...The outward embrace of China Inc raises a series of challenges for target companies and countries, he adds....
...Noble Energy of the US and Israel’s Delek Drilling initialled the deal – an anchor for their $6.5bn Leviathan project – with Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (Nepco) in September....
...With a lot of this merger talk companies are sitting around waiting for Godot. The primary discipline should be to run your own business well.”...
...Furthermore, the basic law of supply and demand is a factor. “The sports industry has relatively finite product,” says Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College, Massachusetts....
...But in a sign of how seriously companies are taking the new regulatory landscape, GE Capital, part of General Electric, has beefed up its government relations team with two former senior officials....
...for founding the company....
...But the window for reaching a deal in time for a regulatory review by Bush administration officials – viewed as being more open to mergers than any of their potential successors – has all but closed....
...The pledge of a 25 per cent premium to unsecured creditors is the lure as he tries to pull off the rarest of moves in the US – a hostile bid for a large bankrupt company....
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