January 21, 2012
As the European financial crisis worsened in November, the executive in charge of capital markets at Nomura Holdings Inc. proposed a plan to buy up billions of dollars of Italian government bonds with the firm's money, people … In 1998, Nomura posted a nearly $1 billion loss, mostly on commercial real – estate loans in the U.S. That bet, led by real – estate financier Ethan Penner, had earned big returns through the 1990s, before the market tumbled and the risks …
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January 19, 2012
Philadelphia-based law firm Dechert LLP, which has a significant national and global presence, announced Tuesday that it has increased its international operations with the opening of an office in Frankfurt, Germany. … leveraged finance and acquisition finance, financial services and asset management, securities, banking, capital markets , labor, tax, finance and real estate and Islamic Finance and other business law for various industries, the statement says.
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