Finance Law

NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE: NRF) (the “Company”) announced today that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of 15,000,000 shares of common stock.  The Company expects to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,250,000 additional shares of common stock. Deutsche Bank Securities [...]

Michael Hunter Schwartz Bill Hethcock Staff Writer – Dallas Business Journal Email The University of North Texas System has appointed Washburn University School of law professor Michael Hunter Schwartz as the inaugural associate dean for Academic Affairs of the UNT Dallas College of Law. The appointment is effective May 2013. The law school is expected [...]

Detroit — A Muslim school filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Pittsfield Township officials for turning down its request to build a new school in the area. Last year, Pittsfield Township denied the Michigan Islamic Academy’s zoning request to build near the intersection of Golfside and Ellsworth roads. Officials cited traffic concerns and complaints by [...]

February 23, 2012, 12:32 AM EST By Takahiko Hyuga (Updates with customer assistance in fifth paragraph.) Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, will withdraw from consumer banking in Japan, closing down six branches four years after starting the business. HSBC will stop selling new investment products, including mutual funds, from March [...]

NEW YORK, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – –Proportionately combined free cash flow of $3.16 per share exceeds expectations –Atlantic Aviation exits cash flow lockup, expected to distribute approximately $25 million to MIC during 2012 –Proportionately combined free cash flow of $3.50 – $3.60 per share expected in 2012 Macquarie Infrastructure Company LLC /quotes/zigman/1507157/quotes/nls/mic MIC [...]

By Jennifer Smith We bring you some sad news for the California legal community, particularly for those involved in the battle over that state’s voter initiative banning same-sex marriage. On Friday, M. Katherine Baird Darmer, a Chapman University School of Law professor and an active campaigner for marriage equality, died after falling from a building [...]

TALLAHASSEE –  Gov. Rick Scott hosted a rally backing charter schools Wednesday. Scott wants the power to flip failing public schools into private hands. A handful of new laws are aimed at making it easier for charter schools to get up and running. Wendy Howard and her daughter, Jessica, from Pasco County want lawmakers to pass [...]

By Michael Molinski SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Banking is back in Latin America. While most of the rest of the world is still recovering from the global financial crisis of 2008, Latin American banks have recovered. Five factors have fueled that growth: a growing middle class, access to banks for the previously “unbanked” population, growth [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – As the mortgage industry and the federal government struggle to find ways to stem foreclosures, Barry Habib, vice president and chief market strategist for Columbus, Ohio-based Residential Finance Corp. (RFC), proposes a plan to prevent foreclosures and strategic defaults. The proposed plan also enables homeowners to quickly [...]

  On Monday, authorities said that a professor from Chapman University might have committed suicide. The professor of law fell from a building to her death. Daniel Aikin, the Supervising Deputy Coroner for Orange County, said that early investigations have found that Mary Katherine Baird Darmer most likely committed suicide on Friday. Aikin said that [...]