Finance Law

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) announced today that investment transactions closed in the fourth quarter of 2011 included three financing commitments to new portfolio companies totaling more than $640 million. Ares Capital served as administrative agent in all three transactions. “We are very pleased to have partnered with three high-quality private equity investors [...]

The dean of the Inland region’s only accredited law school has resigned, effective immediately. Allen Easley, dean of the University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario, had led the college since July 2008, focusing recently on regaining the school’s national accreditation. The university’s executive vice president has been named interim dean. In June, [...]

Los Angeles – The two-week holiday is over today for some 700,000 Southland students, as they return to school, and Los Angeles police traffic officers say they will be enforcing safety laws around school campuses, a sergeant said. “We’ve seen a decline in traffic accidents, but an increase in pedestrian-related accidents,” according to Sgt. Arturo [...]

 Posted 05:03 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. (OZRK) expects to report fourth quarter earnings at the close of business Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Management plans to conduct a conference call to review this information at 10:00 a.m. CST (11:00 a.m. EST) on Wednesday, January [...]

SINGAPORE, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – China Yuchai International Limited /quotes/zigman/143742/quotes/nls/cyd CYD +1.98% (“China Yuchai” or the “Company”), announced today the appointment of Mr. Kok Ho Leong as Chief Financial Officer with effect from January 9, 2012. Mr. Leong takes over from Benny H Goh, President of the Company who took on the [...]

An official of the University of Iowa College of Law, where Ms. Wagner applied for a job in 2006, certainly seemed to think so. “Frankly, one thing that worries me is that some people may be opposed to Teresa serving in any role in part at least because they so despise her politics (and especially [...]

Suffolk County Council’s Endeavour House headquarters in Ipswich Monday, January 9, 2012 4:39 PM SUFFOLK County Council has been fined £48,000 after it admitted breaching health and safety laws at three of its workplaces – including one incident which led to a school pupil being temporarily blinded. Ipswich Magistrates’ Court heard the council faced six [...]

January 09, 2012, 1:09 PM EST By Angus Whitley Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s biggest government-owned bank, will this week announce plans to sell or close its global cash equities business, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The proposal will be unveiled by Chief Executive Officer Stephen [...]

NEW YORK, Jan 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Ares Capital Corporation /quotes/zigman/94512/quotes/nls/arcc ARCC +0.38% announced today that investment transactions closed in the fourth quarter of 2011 included three financing commitments to new portfolio companies totaling more than $640 million. Ares Capital served as administrative agent in all three transactions. Ares Capital President Michael Arougheti commented, [...]

WASHINGTON — As scrutiny of law schools has increased over the past year, with students bearing increasing loan debt and having more difficulty finding jobs to pay it off, law school deans and professors have come in for criticism. But on the front lines of the battle, dealing with sometimes skeptical prospective students, has been [...]