November 9, 2010

The Daily Bankruptcy News

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Law:

Lehman Lawyers Seek a Fresh $90 Million
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Saul Ewing Interviews Emphasize Critical Life Decisions
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Largest Law Firms Still Shrinking, Shedding 1,400 Lawyers This Year
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Partners of Squire Sanders & Hammonds OK Megamerger; Will Keep Squire Sanders Name
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Diversity Issues To Consider Before You Accept Your Offer
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Decline in Law Firm Diversity Blamed on a Few 'Bad Actors'
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Not a Good Year for Women Lawyers
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A promise from a client not to seek discharge of attorneys fees in bankruptcy is unenforceable
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New Century Settlement a $14.4 Million Payday for Bernstein Litowitz
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Go East Young Man: If You Can Make It There, You'll Make It Anywhere...
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Staff Layoff Watch: Howrey Makes Cuts
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Allen & Overy's revenue up 3 per cent at half-year stage
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BigLaw Firm Scraps Plans to Scrap Lockstep
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Just Sittin' on the Dock of the Pay at Simpson
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Work-Life Balance Concerns Placed on Hold in Recession, Career Consultant Says
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Brothers Keep Running BigLaw Firm in the Family
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Departure Email Hall of Fame
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Surprises in the 2010 AmLaw Tech Survey
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Using the iPad to Create PDFs
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Houston lawyer, wife accused of stealing from vets
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Suit Claims Keyless Ignition Is to Blame for Lawyer’s Death
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GMAC, K1, M&T, BHP, MetLife, Oracle in Court News
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Lawyer Sues for Humiliation and Lost Business Due to Misspelled Yellowbook Ad
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NY Law Professor Elected President of Seneca Indians
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Bridging the Gap: UMKC Law Opens a Solo and Small Firm Incubator
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Lawyers to the Rescue responds to disasters
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Sexing the Law Firms
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Alan Dershowitz Opens His Home/'Art' Gallery to 'The Harvard Crimson'
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Cops: Grandma Offers To Sell Grandson For $75K
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Judges:

Bankruptcy judge steps aside over fiancé flap
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Invitation for Public Comment on the Reappointment of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith A. Jury
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Panel: Judge Who Quit Must Be Removed; Cites Due-Process Issues, Sexual Talk re Turtle T-Shirt
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Room Share Creates Appearance Of Impropriety
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The Smiling Turtle?
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Wall Street:

U.S. stock -index futures up slightly
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Morgan Stanley CEO: 'Leverage Is A Killer'
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The Flash Crash, in Miniature
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Layoffs:

Jobs Numbers Worse Than They Appeared
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‘Lies, damned lies, statistics’
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1.2 Million Unemployed Want A Job But Have Given Up Looking
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Insurance:

The when and how of claiming against an insolvent's insurance
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Ambac Financial files for bankruptcy
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Read Ambac Financial's Bankruptcy Filing
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Does D&O Insurance Undermine the Deterrence Effect of Securities Litigation?
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Politics:

Palin Tells Bernanke "Cease and Desist"
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Warranties:

Car-warranty dealer, accused of scamming consumers, settles for $9.5M
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Credit Counseling:

Bankruptcy education offers little benefit, study says
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States settle with AscendOne
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Banking:

Big Banks Are Destroying Resolution Authority
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Barclays Profit Hit by Big Loss at Investment Banking
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Bank Failures Hit Two Decade High
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The Death of a Small Town Bank
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Hotels:

Report: Kyoto Grand to be Sold to Torrance Firm
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Owner of Hotel del Coronado seeks to restructure debt
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W woes could cost Hub $10M
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Baseball:

Ex-Rangers Ownership Scoffs at Scout’s $1.4 Million Demand
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Personal Finance:

Debt's most tragic toll: murder-suicide
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Sports:

Stadium Economics Forced Cowboys To Fire Wade Phillips
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Economy:

Global Fed bashing casts shadow over G-20
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Fed Backlash Grows
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QE2 A Dangerous Endgame For Ordinary Wage Earning Americans
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Geithner: Double Dip Threat Receding
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Commercial mortgage securities stand to benefit most from QE2
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Even Fed Officials Are Split Over $600 Billion Stimulus
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Fed's Fisher Says Asset Purchases May Be `Wrong Medicine' for US Economy
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Fed's Warsh: Asset Buying Deliberately Small
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Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian: Fed's Move Is 'Not Enough'
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Bullard Says Stimulus May Have `Maximum Impact' in Six Months
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Gold Prices Settle Above $1400
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Oil near $90. Thanks a lot, Fed.
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Bankers: Uncertainty in Global Growth
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One of America's economies is recovering. The other isn't. Which are you in?
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10 signs the consumer is not dead
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American's Debt Slashing Nears $1 Trillion
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The Race to Erase Debt
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When a Tax Is a Tax May Be Pivotal Issue for U.S. Debt Panel
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Economic Stress Map
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Economy Tracker Map
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US Debt Clock
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Recovery Index
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Bailout Tracker
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Real Estate:

At Legal Fringe, Empty Houses Go to Needy
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Ohio GMAC Foreclosure Case May Set Anti-Wall Street Precedent
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Foreclosures and the Rule of Law
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Home prices drop 5% in three months
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More current mortgages go delinquent in 3Q as household debt falls
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Bair Says Regulators Need More Data to Relieve US Foreclosure Bottleneck
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Top 5 Things To Know About Robo-Signers
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In Foreclosure Cases, Do Borrowers Get Due Process?
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MERS: Symptom or Cause
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A Third of Mortgages Missing
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States say federal regulators dropped ball on foreclosures
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Defaults: It turns out that location, in fact, really does matter
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Jupiter apartment/condo owner files Chapter 11
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To Mow Or Not To Mow That Vacant House Next Door
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On Jumbo Mortgages, Government Muscles Out Banks
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Public Housing Bonds Hurt by Low Rates
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Perils of Privatization
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Sheila Bair: Bring securitization practices back in balance
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Majority of Property Investors Plan Purchases as Prospects Rise
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Mass Torts:

Money concerns didn't drive Deepwater Horizon decisions, panel counsel says
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BP Falls: Panel Finds No Profiteering, But Lack of Care
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Spill panel chief counsel bemoans lack of subpoena power
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Energy Losers: Anadarko Petroleum
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Health Care:

Health costs fuel rise in bankruptcy among elderly
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Convenience Stores:

Tranzon Auction Properties Engaged for Bankruptcy Sale of 21 Convenience Stores
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Autos:

Bush: GM, Chrysler bailout to 'safeguard American workers'
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Bush: Auto bailouts were needed to save economy
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GM's Outlook Includes Pension Gains
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Fraud:

Judge Upholds Bayou Award Against Goldman
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Pictures Emerge of Allen Stanford, Post Prison Fight
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Nortel Fights Family of Delaware Chancery Judge in Corporate Fraud Lawsuit
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Fraud Indictment Accuses Lawyer of Hiding Superfund Status of Property
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How a Fraud's Value Affects Prison Time
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Marshals service sues to get money for Rothstein victims
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Tipster in Galleon Case Gets 18 Months in Prison
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Ex-Galleon Trader Brings Insider Trading Rule Under Scrutiny
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Judge freezes assets of Hecker co-defendant
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Celebs:

'Real Housewives of New Jersey': Teresa Giudice auction reportedly unlikely
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M&A:

The Return of the Risk Arbs
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Corporate Reform:

Warren gets a parting shot from Sen. Dodd
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US Sen Dodd: Obama Ought To Nominate Consumer Agency Head Soon
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US risk council should probe foreclosure mess -Dodd
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A Lack of Transparency in S.E.C. Disclosure Rule
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Municipalities:

California: The Lindsay Lohan of States
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How El Paso, Texas dodged the recession
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Former San Diego City Attorney Says Bankruptcy Best Option for City
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(No new opinion today)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)- (2)- (3)- (4)- (5)- (6)- (7)- (8)- (9)- (10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Reform:

Dodd Says Bankruptcy Law Must Change to Address `Too Big to Fail' Issues
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Bankruptcy Statistics:

October Filings Hold Steady
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O.C. bankruptcies per 1000 people up 34%
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Miscellaneous:

Blockbuster, Connector, WaMu, FX, Point Blank, MGM: Bankruptcy
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Litigation:

Oracle enlists private eyes to find HP CEO
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Oracle’s Ellison Testifies that SAP’s Infringement Cost It $4 Billion
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Chevron in Ecuador: More Tapes the Plaintiffs Don't Want You to See
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On the feeding frenzy over Deepwater Horizon spill litigation
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Aviation:

US Airways to fill 500 crew positions
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Credit Cards:

Are Credit Card Lines Growing? No.
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New Laws Haven’t Stopped Credit Card Issuers from Using New Ways of Getting Your Money
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What's in Our Wallets?
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Theme Parks:

The Good, The Bad and The Bankrupt
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Wild West World auction sells the last of assets
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Retailing:

Shoppers burned by recession haven't healed
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Resorts:

Deal Reached at Tamarack
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Aviation:

Flier Patience Wears Thin at Checkpoints
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Golf:

Fairvue Club suspends operations
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Derivatives:

Protecting the Subsidy
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Goldman, Natixis in Talks to Settle U.K. Default Swaps Fight
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UK:

Winding Up Petitions - 8th November 2010
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U.K. Factory Production Expands for a Fifth Month
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Cable Urges Bonus Moderation as Banks Warn of Exodus
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AP1 sues custodian BNY Mellon for negligence in Sigma investment
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Directors: When a restructuring comes knocking at the door
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Report: Bankruptcies Among Divorced Middle-Aged British Women Up 37 Percent
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Insolvency statistics ‘lull before the storm’, debt experts warn
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Begbies Traynor acquires Hamiltons a Sheffield based firm of business recovery and insolvency practitioners
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EU:

Fears grow over woes of Europe’s periphery
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Ireland:

Ireland's top economist says bank losses make bankruptcy 'inevitable'
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If you thought the bank bailout was bad, wait until the mortgage defaults hit home
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Here Come the Irish Mortgages
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US investment greater in Ireland than Russia and China
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Ireland's brutal bankruptcy reality
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Ireland's Woes — And Ours?
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Ireland's Budget Plan Endorsed by Europe's Rehn Amid Bond `Buyers' Strike'
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New Zealand:

Auckland property developer faces bankruptcy
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Japan:

Acom Cuts 2010 Forecast to Loss on Prospect of Swelling Interest Refunds
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Japan Oct corporate bankruptcies -9.9 pct yr/yr
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Germany:

German Insolvencies Rise In August
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German Finance Minister Schäuble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'
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