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SandRidge Energy Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Ward was fired from the energy producer he founded and replaced by Chief Financial Officer James Bennett, days before an activist shareholder was poised to gain control of the board.
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Senior employees at U.K. banks may face a 10-year wait for bonuses under proposals put forward by a committee investigating the failures of the industry, which also recommended making “reckless” management of lenders a crime.
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Gardendale, Texas, sits on the Permian Basin, the largest oil province in the United States. That makes it an unlikely site of anti-fracking protests and an even more unlikely bellwether for shale gas drilling activity in Europe and Asia. And yet it is.
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The U.K. asked the European Union’s top court to quash the “wide” and “unpredictable” powers of an EU agency to ban short selling in the latest skirmish over the regulation of financial services.
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The U.K., defeated in a campaign to derail European Union curbs on banker bonuses, goes to the bloc’s top court tomorrow in a bid to overturn the powers of an EU agency to ban short selling.
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Latham & Watkins LLP’s Zachary Fardon was nominated by President Obama to be U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. He would replace Patrick Fitzgerald, who left last June and joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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Law firm leaders are failing to make the changes necessary to effectively manage their enterprises under today’s conditions, according to a new survey by consultant Altman Weil.
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The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered Monsanto Co.’s ability to control the use of its genetically modified seeds, ruling that companies can block efforts to circumvent patents on self-replicating technologies.
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Nike Inc. is designing golf clubs with data-collecting sensors to help perfect a swing. Its LeBron X+ basketball shoes can measure vertical leap.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open an office in Sydney next month with Michael Mills and Michelle Fox of Herbert Smith Freehills.
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