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Rhonda Ryan didn’t meet many other women when she broke into the private-equity business 15 years ago. Today, she’s still the rare female executive in an industry pushed into the spotlight by the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, co-founder of buyout firm Bain Capital LLC.
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UBS AG hired Debbie Mittelman of Lime Brokerage Holdings LLC to develop and manage electronic stock-trading products, according to an internal memo sent to employees today.
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Carl Icahn’s hostile bid for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. was set back by a New York judge’s decision to let a board member vote shares acquired in a deal that diluted the billionaire investor’s stake in the company.
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Massey Energy Co., dealing with the death of 29 miners at one of its West Virginia coal mines, is being investigated by the FBI for possible bribery of state and federal inspectors, a person familiar with the probe said.
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A former co-head of UBS AG ’s municipal derivatives group faces a fraud charge tied to a $100,000 kickback for steering an investment agreement with a U.S. state to another bank.
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Three former bankers with a General Electric Co. unit that sold investment contracts to state and local governments were indicted for conspiring to profit at taxpayers’ expense by rigging bids, showing the broadening scope of a Justice Department investigation of municipal finance.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Bernard Madoff’s “primary banker,” was sued for $6.4 billion by the trustee liquidating the imprisoned con man’s former firm.
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UBS AG , Switzerland’s largest bank, said it’s conducting an “internal review” of a few employees’ conduct and denied a report that police and federal agents had escorted workers from its office in Stamford, Connecticut.
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UBS AG, Switzerland’s biggest bank, hired Brett Langbert as a managing director and team leader for its prime brokerage business in the U.S.
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UBS AG named Carl Mason of BNP Paribas an executive director and equity derivatives strategist, rehiring the analyst who said options showed investors were bracing for a stock-market crash a month before shares peaked in October 2007.
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