Finance Law

Barry Critchley  Jan 12, 2012 – 4:54 PM ET National Post Comments Email Twitter By most measures the year’s corporate finance calendar got underway at the start of this week. And what a four days it has been. The buyers are back from vacation and have demonstrated that they are more than keen to buy [...]

WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, with reception to follow. WHERE: UC Irvine School of Law, 401 East Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA 92697, Room EDU 1111. Directions, http://www.law.uci.edu/directions.html Presented by the School of Law, Newkirk Center for Science and Society and Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. REGISTRATION: Attendance is free, but please RSVP [...]

Religious groups and churches may hire and fire their leaders without being subject to laws against discrimination in employment, the U.S. Supreme Court said this week in a unanimous landmark ruling. For the first time, the Supreme Court recognized a “ministerial exemption” to the nation’s employment discrimination laws. “The interest of society in the enforcement [...]

Commentary By Jessica Hodgson European Pressphoto Agency So why is Royal Bank of Scotland holding onto a substantial part, if not all of its debt capital markets business, as it restructures and slims down? The parts of an investment banking operation which raise and package debt became synonymous with what was crudely dubbed “casino banking” [...]

CPV Completes Project Financing for the Cimarron Wind Energy Project. CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed financing for the construction of its 165.6 MW Cimarron Wind Power Project in Gray County, Kansas. Cimarron Wind Energy Project in Gray County, Kansas. CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed [...]

CPV Completes Project Financing for the Cimarron Wind Energy Project. CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed financing for the construction of its 165.6 MW Cimarron Wind Power Project in Gray County, Kansas. Cimarron Wind Energy Project in Gray County, Kansas. CPV Renewable Energy Company (CPV Renewable Energy) announced that it closed [...]

On Wednesday, 28 seventh- and eighth-graders at Tucson’s Mansfeld Middle School followed their familiar routine. They walked into Room 306, sat at their desks and greeted teacher Rene Martinez. But the class they’d known the day before had vanished. No longer can the students discuss Chicano perspectives on history. And no longer can Martinez teach [...]

On Wednesday, 28 seventh- and eighth-graders at Tucson’s Mansfeld Middle School followed their familiar routine. They walked into Room 306, sat at their desks and greeted teacher Rene Martinez. But the class they’d known the day before had vanished. No longer can the students discuss Chicano perspectives on history. And no longer can Martinez teach [...]

U.S. stocks traded mixed Thursday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently fell 4.1 points to 12445, the Standard Poor’s 500-stock index gained 0.6 point to 1293, and the Nasdaq Composite index was up 7 points to 2718. Among the companies whose shares are actively trading in the session are CA Inc. (CA), Wynn Resorts [...]

DETROIT – The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday to uphold a “ministerial exception” that, under the Constitution, exempts ministers from America’s anti-descrimination laws. The court’s ruling was a result of the case of Cheryl Perich, who was a teacher at the Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School in Redford Township. Perich went on leave from [...]