September 2, 2010 - Banks are planning to launch five deals totaling more than $4 billion.
August 27, 2010 - The firm, whose deals have included healthcare software provider EMIS and mining house Vallar, says further transactions are in the pipeline.
August 26, 2010 - The Omaha distributor of party supplies and hobby items says it has a prepackaged agreement in place.
August 25, 2010 - The trend is also beginning to resonate favorably in other ways, Morgan Joseph said, such as lenders paying greater attention to middle market companies.
August 24, 2010 - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has started an investment firm, according to a filing with regulators.
August 24, 2010 - Sterling Financial Corp., the bank holding company of Sterling Savings Bank of Spokane, Wash., has announced agreements to raise $730 million with Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Warburg Pincus Private Equity X LP leading a group of institutional and private equity investors.
August 23, 2010 - Midwest Banc Holdings Inc. of Melrose Park, Ill., filed for Chapter 11 protection in Chicago, three months after federal regulators closed its Midwest Bank and Trust.
August 23, 2010 - Albuquerque Studios got a couple of take fives in its march through bankruptcy court.
August 20, 2010 - Mayer Brown appointed Dominic Griffiths as the new head of the banking and finance group in London.
August 20, 2010 - LLM Capital and LogistiCare veteran John Shermyen will serve as chairman and chief executive of the SPAC.
August 17, 2010 - Moody's reiterated Monday that the possible bankruptcy of Ambac Financial is unlikely to affect policyholders of its bond insurer subsidiary.
August 13, 2010 - Independent Portfolio Consultants, a Boca Raton, Fla., investment management firm, decided to move the trading functions of its clients managed accounts from Jesup & Lamont last year, well in advance of the New York broker-dealers Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on July 30, a source familiar with the situation said.
August 12, 2010 - The U.S. share of the single AIG rescue exceeded the size of Frances entire $35 billion capital injection program and the bailout was nearly half the size of Germanys $133 billion program.
August 11, 2010 - International Lease Finance Corp. increased the size of its junk bond offering to $4.4 billion from $2.5 billion, upsizing three tranches and adding a fourth.
August 10, 2010 - Jefferies & Co. said it brought on Kamlesh Bhatia as a managing director responsible for private placement origination within the firms equity capital markets group.