Finance Law

Corporate mergers and acquisitions were up for the first six months of this year in the United States, but only if you measure a certain way: The number of deals announced grew to nearly 5,900 through June, up from about 5,100 in the first half of 2011, according to research firm Dealogic.

The Texas Wesleyan University Board of Trustees has approved a letter of intent for Texas Wesleyan University and Texas AM University to enter into a strategic partnership that would provide premier legal education in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex for decades to come. Under the proposed multi-million dollar agreement, the school would be known as the [...]

5:25 p.m. Update: Jude Daniel Ellender has ruled the Monroe City School Board did not violate the state’s open meeting laws when they voted to suspend Dr. Kathleen Harris during the June 26 board meeting. A judge is hearing testimony in the lawsuit filed by suspended Monroe City School Superintendent Kathleen Harris against the School [...]

By Steve Slater LONDON, July 13 | Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:08am EDT LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) – Barclays Plc is already counting the cost of lost business over its part in rigging a global interest rate and may be spared a worse exodus of customers only because the cloud of scandal hangs over other [...]

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PITTSBURGH, July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Western State College of Law at Argosy University, the oldest law school in Orange County, California and one of Education Management Corporation /quotes/zigman/108913/quotes/nls/edmc EDMC -2.26% 109 locations, is pleased to announce that 92 percent of its graduates taking the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners [...]

Students are suing the state of Michigan and their Highland Park school district for violating their “right to read.” The class-action lawsuit appears to be the first of its kind, and potentially signals a new wave of civil rights litigation in the United States to enforce laws intended to boost academic achievement, education law experts [...]

Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief- Phoenix Business Journal A new U.S. Treasury Department    U.S. Treasury Department Latest from The Business Journals SunTrust gets 0M in NMTC program Follow this company report highlights both the successes and shortcomings of the Small Business Lending Fund, an effort to stimulate lending by providing cheap capital to community [...]

Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:01pm EDT July 13 – Fitch Ratings currently maintains the ratings as listed below on the student loan revenue bonds issued under Panhandle-Plains Student Finance Corporation, Series 2001 indenture of trust (the trust). Fitch has been requested to confirm the existing ratings assigned to the Trust in connection with a change [...]

13 July 2012 Chris Tyrer-Hope, MSc Advanced Healthcare Practice (Clinical), graduated with Distinction. Chris has been doing his masters alongside a full-time position as a Community Matron. Chris said: “I came to LJMU because the masters course was recommended to me. I’ve really enjoyed by time at the University, it was hard work doing the [...]