bankruptcy
The Skye Parrott Conspiracy
Hamilton Nolan · 08/24/09 12:41PMWhat Comes Next for Annie Leibovitz?
John Cook · 08/19/09 11:04AMReader's Digest—America's Soul—Going Bankrupt
Hamilton Nolan · 08/17/09 01:04PMVibe Resurrected by The Man
Hamilton Nolan · 08/12/09 01:26PMNick Kristof Is an Honest Man
Hamilton Nolan · 07/09/09 12:56PMLenny Goes Bust
cityfile · 07/08/09 02:06PMBauer Goes Bust
cityfile · 06/17/09 02:34PMBeauty Business Goes Bust
cityfile · 06/11/09 02:41PMA tipster tells us—and we have since confirmed—that Insitu, the Gramercy salon founded by stylist Paula Casano and known for its Japanese hair-straightening expertise, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It's not just the salon's curly-haired clients who will suffer if it's forced to close it doors: Insitu is one of the few salons in Manhattan that works with the Locks of Love project year-round, offering free haircuts to women willing to donate their tresses to economically disadvantaged cancer patients. The grim evidence is below.
Who Killed GM?
Pareene · 06/01/09 10:29AMOur Great Brands Are Too Big to Fail
Hamilton Nolan · 05/26/09 12:08PMTimes Scribe Omits Vital Details From Book/Article
The Cajun Boy · 05/22/09 03:21AMIn last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Times economics reporter Edmund Andrews wrote a piece about how irresponsible lenders had essentially ruined his family's life titled, "My Personal Credit Crisis." Megan McArdle of the Atlantic then went digging around and found some major issues with Andrews' story.
Crunch Gets Crunched
cityfile · 05/06/09 10:30PMCrunch filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. The chain won't be disappearing, though. The chain reports it has a buyer lined up and willing to take over, and only two locations willl close as the company reorganizes. As part of the filing, Crunch also revealed that it owes more than $100 million to 50,000 creditors. So if you check your credit card statement next month and you see you were "accidentally" billed you for the next three months, that probably means you're one of them. [Reuters, Crain's]
Boom Goes Chrysler
cityfile · 04/30/09 08:31AMOpportunity Arises to Get the Hell Out of Boston
Hamilton Nolan · 04/17/09 12:53PMWall Street: Friday Morning
cityfile · 04/17/09 05:54AM• Citigroup posted its first profit in 18 months today, which made Wall Street very happy and sent Citi shares up to a whopping $4. [WSJ, DB]
• GE's first-quarter profit fell less than expected, dropping 35% compared to a year earlier, results that gave shares a boost in early trading. [BN, WSJ]
• AIG chief Ed Liddy still owns a big stake in Goldman Sachs, info that will be most pleasing to Goldman conspiracy theorists out there. [NYT, NYT]
• Is the banking business showing signs of recovery? [NYT]
• Carl Icahn and Kirk Kerkorian are locked in battle over MGM Mirage. [WSJ]
• General Growth Properties's bankruptcy will make hedge funder Bill Ackman a very rich man. And he already happens to be a very rich man. [NYT]
• The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco now says it was a mistake to allow Lehman Brothers to collapse. Now you tell us? [BN]
Wall Street: Thursday Morning
cityfile · 04/16/09 05:48AM• JPMorgan Chase reported a $2.1 billion profit in the first quarter, exceeding estimates. Unlike Goldman, though, Jamie Dimon says the bank hasn't decided whether to return the $25 billion it's received in bailout money. [DB, WSJ, BN]
• General Growth Properties, the second-largest mall operator, filed Chapter 11 today, making it one of the largest real estate failures in history. [AP, WSJ]
• AIG is close to a deal to sell its auto insurance business for $2 billion. [FT]
• Investors remain concerned about the situation at GE and whether the company will be forced to go out and raise additional capital. [WSJ]
• Foreclosure filings jumped 24 percent in the first quarter. [CNN]
• Blackstone boss Steve Schwarzman says he's really worried about the "decline of capitalism." But he's got $25 billion sitting on the sidelines, and he's ready to pounce at any second assuming the world isn't ending. [Fortune]
It's Good to Be a Bankruptcy Attorney
cityfile · 04/15/09 03:20PMWeil Gotchal is one of three major law firms that has asked new associates to hang out until 2011 before showing up to work. The firms are encouraging recruits to push back their start dates on account of the recession, naturally, but Weil may have a harder time pleading poverty as of this afternoon. The firm just requested the largest quarterly fee in bankruptcy history for its work on the Lehman Brothers meltdown. Weil is asking a judge to turn over $55.1 million for the the work it has done over just the past four months—plus expenses, of course—and insiders say it will probably get every penny of it. And Weil is expected to earn another $200 million in the event General Motors files for bankruptcy protection. It isn't often that we wish we'd gone into bankruptcy law. But it looks like today is one of those days.