NEW YORK, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (the “Company”) /quotes/zigman/359497/quotes/nls/nrf NRF -4.91% today announced that NorthStar Realty Finance Limited Partnership, the operating partnership through which the Company conducts its operations, has priced a private offering of $75 million aggregate principal amount of the operating partnership’s 8.875% exchangeable senior notes [...]
Mary Lu Bilek, associate dean and professor at the City University of New York’s law school, has been appointed dean of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth law school, the state’s first public law school. UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Jean MacCormack announced the appointment Thursday. “Professor Bilek brings expertise in strategic planning and innovation in legal education, [...]
Stricter ID laws and other controversial voting restrictions passed this year by several Republican-controlled legislatures are hitting legal roadblocks that could keep many of the measures from taking effect before the November elections. Curbs on early voting, ID requirements and last-minute efforts to rid voter lists of noncitizens have been met with vigorous opposition from [...]
On a day that Moody’s downgraded the safety rating of six German banks over the eurozone debt crisis, major stock indexes that have been roiled by the crisis rose 2 percent on the Spanish rescue hopes. By Mark Trumbull, Staff writer / June 6, 2012 Getco Securities traders Philip Finale (l.) and its floor official Peter [...]
OLD GREENWICH, Conn., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Ellington Financial LLC /quotes/zigman/1526607/quotes/nls/efc EFC +1.23% (“Ellington Financial” or the “Company”) today announced that its estimated book value per common share as of May 31, 2012 was $23.85, or $23.30 on a diluted basis. These amounts give effect to the previously announced dividend in the [...]
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By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff High school students admit they regularly text while driving, according to a new national survey that found one in three teens said they had texted or e-mailed while driving a car. The findings released Thursday come a day after Massachusetts made headlines for the conviction of a Haverhill teenager for [...]
And so, as Madrid tries to come up with the money to bail out its banks, its main lenders are increasingly becoming many of those same institutions. If it sounds like the most vicious of circles, it is. Economists warn that over the long term, Spain will have trouble meeting its substantial financial requirements until [...]
Award to Fund Study of the Impact of New Technology on Democratic Institutions New York, NY (PRWEB) June 07, 2012 The Institute for Information Law Policy at New York Law School (NYLS) was awarded an $800,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to convene an interdisciplinary planning group of leading researchers, [...]








