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...In the past, it has advised on the bankruptcies of Enron and Lehman Brothers....
...Hertz chief financial officer Thomas Kennedy has resigned after more than four years with the car rental company....
...In March the company was given a second chance after its purchase by Gordon Brothers Group, a US private equity firm....
...The UK offshoot of the Blockbuster DVD rental chain is poised to enter administration for a second time this year putting 2,000 jobs at risk after poor retail and rental sales....
...Yet it has clashed with some film studios including Warner Brothers, which worry that the service undermines their home entertainment sales, which are declining rapidly....
...After attracting a surge in interest from overseas investors in 2007 and 2008, Japan’s real estate market was hit by a series of setbacks, beginning with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008....
...Blockbuster, the video-rental store, followed in 2010, along with Midwest Banc and a host of lesser-known and regional companies....
...Last year, GI, which has offices in London and in Menlo Park, California, put the Orchid pubs group though a pre-packaged administration to cut its rental bill....
...Sony and Warner Brothers declined to comment while Lions Gate did not return calls on Wednesday....
...Estate agents say the only “green shoots” they can see now are in the rental market, where landlords are lowering prices to avoid a stand-off....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...“That mentality and the rental legacy it leaves behind is far removed from the current day post-Madoff situation.”...
...Lehman Brothers, with Banc of America Strategic Ventures and Barclays Capital, took on a $4.6bn equity bridge as part of last year’s buy-out of Archstone-Smith with partner Tishman-Speyer....
...He points to the test case of US car rental group Alamo National....
...Others that may be pushed out include Brake Brothers, the food service group owned by Clayton Dubilier & Rice, and Lucite, another Charterhouse-backed business and maker of acrylic-based products such as...
...“Asian central banks are the driving forces behind the short-dated dollar transactions,” said Edward Mizuhara at Lehman Brothers, which managed the sale with Credit Suisse First Boston and Dresdner Kleinwort...
...Gecina was advised by Lehman Brothers and CSFB....
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