Finance Law

By Isabella Steger Anthony Yeung has joined Nomura Holdings Inc.’s corporate solutions financing group for Hong Kong and offshore China, according to a memo seen by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Mr. Yeung was previously head of corporate coverage for China and Hong Kong at UBS AG, and also worked in corporate sales for [...]

The board of directors of ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has elected Ms. Jody Freeman as a new outside director. The election of Professor Freeman increases the total number of ConocoPhillips directors to 10, of which nine are outside directors. She will serve on the Public Policy Committee of the ConocoPhillips board. Professor Freeman, 48, is the [...]

Five more companies are ending their financial support of a public policy group that has worked with state lawmakers to pass pro-gun ownership and voter- identification laws, a civil rights group said today. Deere Co., (DE) CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS), SABMiller Plc’s MillerCoors LLC, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY) are no [...]

European governments will jump-start as much as 100 billion euros ($123 billion) in emergency loans to shore up Spain’s banks and may move the costs off the Spanish government’s balance sheet to shield the euro region’s fourth- largest economy from the debt crisis. Spanish equities and bonds gained after finance chiefs agreed to make available [...]

NEW YORK, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Weight Watchers International, Inc. /quotes/zigman/293665/quotes/nls/wtw WTW -0.06% today announced the appointment of Nicholas P. Hotchkin to serve as its Chief Financial Officer, effective August 20, 2012. As CFO, Hotchkin will be a member of the Company’s executive leadership team and will oversee the global finance and [...]

Following a vote of the Harvard Law School faculty, D. James Greiner, a specialist in the application of modern quantitative thinking to legal questions, has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of law—a tenured faculty position. Said HLS Dean Martha Minow: “As he pursues empirical study of vital questions about the benefit of access [...]

The president of a local school board who is accused of violating election laws is taking the stand Tuesday night. Judson ISD’s June Adair isn’t speaking publicly about the allegations, but has said she won’t resign. Adair was under investigation by the District Attorney’s Office since November of 2011. Within recent weeks she was indicted [...]

Bank of America has been cutting jobs in its commercial banking unit in recent weeks even as it tries to boost the group’s business, people familiar with the situation said, reflecting the bank’s broader struggles to grow in a tepid economy. The job cuts are the latest round in Bank of America‘s [BAC  Loading...    [...]

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Johanna Bond Johanna Bond, professor of law and Ethan Allen Faculty Fellow at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs by Dean Nora Demleitner. Bond succeeds Robert Danforth, who served as associate dean for five years and will return to the faculty following a sabbatical leave. “Professor [...]