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A midtown Manhattan office tower majority owned by Carlyle Group LP is attracting bids of as much as $1.4 billion in what may be the biggest U.S. real estate deal since 2010, two people familiar with the sale process said.
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Greenhill & Co., the merger adviser GrainCorp Ltd. hired to consider Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.’s bid, is itself a potential target for firms looking to add banking expertise on optimism deal-making will resurge.
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The Texas Rangers, the bankrupt Major League Baseball club, asked a judge for permission to hire Perella Weinberg Partners as an investment banker as it works to complete a sale of the team.
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Daniel Mudd, the former chief executive officer of Fannie Mae, and Richard Syron, ex-CEO of Freddie Mac, were sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans held by the firms.
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Hostess Brands Inc., the bankrupt maker of Wonder bread, said no competing bids were received for its snack-cake business including Twinkies, resulting in a proposed auction to be canceled.
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The union representing Hostess Brands Inc.’s fired bakery workers held talks with companies bidding for the Twinkie maker’s assets, the union’s leader said.
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Liverpool’s board agreed to sell England’s most successful soccer club to John W. Henry ’s Boston Red Sox holding company over the objections of owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett , who vowed to resist an offer they said is too low.
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Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive director sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, disputed the claims and said he relied on his firm’s legal and compliance department.
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Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, Mexico’s biggest airline by passengers, filed for protection from creditors in Mexico and the U.S. after its executives said they had failed to reach cost-saving agreements with labor unions.
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A record of winning is the biggest asset John W. Henry ’s Boston Red Sox holding company brings to its pending purchase of Liverpool, according to the chairman of England’s most-successful soccer club.
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