Finance Law

SHELTON, Conn., Jun 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Hubbell Incorporated /quotes/zigman/1473506/quotes/nls/hub.a HUB.A +3.67% /quotes/zigman/228919/quotes/nls/hub.b HUB.B +3.04% has named David G. Nord President and Chief Operating Officer, effective June 6, 2012. Timothy Powers will remain as Chairman and CEO of the Company. “Dave is an experienced financial leader with a strong operational grounding,” said Tim Powers. [...]

Dr Dominic Ayine A Senior Law Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Dr Domnic Ayine is curious as to why embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has been charged with causing financial loss to the state since he is not a public official. Mr Woyome was on Tuesday discharged of previous [...]

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The central bank kept its benchmark rate at 1 percent, where it has been since December. Noting the stress in Europe and signs of flagging economic growth, the central bank promised to continue providing banks with effectively unlimited low-interest loans at least through the end of the year. While most analysts had not expected the [...]

NEW YORK, June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. /quotes/zigman/359497/quotes/nls/nrf NRF +6.01% (the “Company”) announced today that NorthStar Realty Finance Limited Partnership, the operating partnership through which the Company conducts its operations, has commenced a private offering, subject to market conditions, of $75 million aggregate principal amount of the operating partnership’s [...]

Professor Krishan Mahajan is currently Dean, School of Law at the National Law University, Orissa (NLU-O). The CLC graduate has also been one of the country’s most prolific legal journalists, working with national dailies such as the Indian Express and Hindustan Times. In this talk with Associate Editor, Anuj Agrawal, Prof. Mahajan talks about the [...]

Detroit — Union dues will continue to be taken from the paycheck of school employees after a U.S. District Court today granted an injunction blocking implementation of a state law which prohibited the deduction. In issuing the injunction, U.S. Judge Denise Page Hood said the law was likely to be found unconstitutional, David Hecker, president [...]

The central bank left its main interest rate unchanged at 1 percent. In a measured response to fears of a banking crisis, the E.C.B. did promise to continue supplying institutions with unlimited short-term, low-interest loans through the end of the year. But Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. president, said the bank had no “silver bullets” to [...]

MALVERN, Pa., Jun 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – USA Technologies, Inc. /quotes/zigman/99788/quotes/nls/usat USAT 0.00% , (“USAT”) announced today that it has received a commitment letter from Avidbank Corporate Finance (“Avidbank”) to establish a $3.0 million, one-year secured line of credit. The credit line is part of USA Technologies’ strategy to assist in the accelerated transition [...]

3. “Salaries are shrinking …” While public service and government attorneys don’t expect to make the big bucks, corporate law positions have traditionally paid some of the highest salaries of any industry. But even these lofty positions aren’t recession-proof. Law school students who graduated in 2010 earn $84,111 on average during their first year, down [...]