Corporate Law News

Three years after Congress passed a strict corporate-accountability measure designed to make it harder to defraud investors about corporate financial health, companies are experiencing higher audit fees and ...2.7

WESTFORD, Mass. Aug. 3, 2005 MatrixOne, Inc. , a leading provider of collaborative product lifecycle management solutions for the value chain , today issued an update on the Company's previously announced ...2.7

Former Waste Management Inc. Chairman Dean Buntrock agreed to pay almost $20 million to settle U.S. regulators' claims he helped orchestrate an accounting fraud at the trash-hauling company, said people ...2.7

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is scheduled to auction off a 3 percent stake, ... However, the timing of the decision came as a surprise, as the company is still struggling to obtain approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue American Depositary ...2.7

Former Cendant Corp. Vice Chairman E. Kirk Shelton was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay full restitution for his role in an accounting scandal that cost investors and the company ...2.7

Rep. Chris Cox left the congressional office he's held for 17 years Tuesday evening to assume a ... One of the many things he'll miss about his old job is meeting so many people from around Orange County and getting to help them in ways that matter, he said.2.7

WorldSpace Inc., which was created to beam satellite radio to the poor of the developing world and helped spawn XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.2.9

Regulators have become increasingly concerned that customer trade information is being used improperly, either within brokerage firms whose own trading activities have grown, or shared with other customers as ...2.7

Faith-based game creators meet in Portland to preach Bibleman instead of Bomberman; GameSpot News reports from the front lines of Christian gaming.2.7

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday that it has reached a settlement with Utah's 529 college savings plan for allegedly failing to disclose problems in its operating systems that enabled a ...4.6

A unit of HSBC Holdings PLC snapped up credit-card issuer Metris Cos. Inc. on Thursday for $1.59 billion cash, taking one more standalone credit-card issuer off the market.4

Film and Music Entertainment, Inc. , a publicly traded Hollywood based independent film production and distribution company, announced today it filed Form 10-SB-A/1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.2.7

On Aug. 4, 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 's new Chairman, Christopher Cox, made his first address to the entire SEC staff.2.7

Lucent was subpoenaed in an ongoing government probe of a federal program to provide schools and libraries with Internet access.2.7

Encore Clean Energy, Inc today announced its CEO, Dan Hunter, has been interviewed by Audiostocks.com. The interview may be heard by going to www.audiostocks.com About Encore Clean Energy Inc.2.7

Produce Safety & Security International, Inc. announced today that Capital Group Advisors, Inc will no longer be handling investor relations for the company, effective immediately.2.7

Corruption, poor infrastructure facilities and bureaucratic tangles in Bangladesh are increasing the cost of doing business, speakers at a seminar observed in Dhaka Wednesday.2.7

Eschelon Telecom Inc., a CLEC headquartered in Minneapolis, today set the price of its initial public offering at $14 per share.2.7

ENDEXX Corporation , a company dedicated to providing online board books for corporate governance to the highly regulated mutual fund, banking, energy and multi-subsidiary public company industries, is pleased ...2.7

Digital Signage Installation to Expand to 35 Locations Throughout St. Louis Area SEATTLE, Aug.2.7

Securities and Exchange Commission extended the compliance date for Rule 612 of Regulation NMS, known as the sub-penny rule, from Aug.2.7

Bellwether Report is Closely Tracking iVillage Inc. Published in M2 PressWIRE on Thursday, 04 August 2005 at 16:39 GMT Copyright 2005, M2 Communications Ltd.2.7

Predix Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. of Lexington has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of common stock.4.5

Procter & Gamble is getting a $24 billion loan, the largest by a U.S. company in five years, to buy back its shares and those of acquisition target Gillette.2.7

Denver-based Qwest registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Wednesday for the future right to sell $2.5 billion of new debt, stock or other types of hybrid securities.2.7

Gray Television is spinning off its newspaper and wireless businesses into a separate, publicly ... After the spinoff, Triple Crown plans to absorb publicly traded Bull Run Corp.2.7

Florida's attorney general is investigating the marketing of Eli Lilly's top-selling drug Zyprexa, ... Lilly's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission stated the subpoena came from the Medicaid fraud unit of the Florida attorney general's office.4.7

Track Data Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to buy back up to 1 million common shares, or nearly 11 percent of its outstanding stock, at a significant premium.2.7

The board of the Securities and Exchange Commission will start hearings on the listing proposal of Thai Beverages on the Stock Exchange of Thailand next Wednesday.3.1

King Pharmaceuticals and Palatin Technologies, Inc. announced today that they have initiated patient enrollment in two double- blind, placebo-controlled Phase IIb clinical trials of PT-141 in patients with ...2.7

Appliance maker has until Tuesday to submit Maytag offer. By ANDREW SOUKUP Tribune Staff Writer BENTON HARBOR -- Whirlpool Corp.2.7

Electro Energy Inc. , a developer and manufacturer of advanced rechargeable batteries, is pleased to announce that a technical paper authored by the Company's founder and CEO Martin G. Klein, together with ...2.7

Homeland Integrated Security Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will start marketing and selling its products to partners and customers in the European market this month.2.7

Celestica Inc. , a world leader in electronics manufacturing services , today announced that it has completed its previously announced cash tender offer for the repurchase of any or all of its US$614,435,000 ...3.1

The Philippines, feeling the pain of pricier imported oil, has approved a cut in the import tariff on ethanol to one percent from 10 percent to promote the use of renewable sources of energy.2.7