Legal & Regulatory

Pharma major GSK seeks FIPB nod to hike stake in Indian subsidiary

GlaxoSmithKline has asked for the approval of India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board for its planned acquisition of a 24.33% stake in its Indian arm GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. GSK will fund the stake hike by investing INR6,400 crore.


Private equity firm Catalyst Capital gets go ahead for Advantage Rent A Car takeover

A Mississippi bankruptcy judge on Friday approved the sale of bankrupt car rental company Advantage Rent A Car to Canadian private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group.

The Hague tribunal reschedules Chevron, Ecuador arbitration claim hearing

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands has pushed back an arbitration claim hearing involving Chevron Corp. and Ecuador to February. Chevron was indicted for environmental damage done in Amazon by Texaco.

China promises more support for embattled solar power industry- report

China said it would give more support to the domestic solar power industry as the government seeks to revamp a sector that is plagued with overcapacity and lower prices, Reuters reported.


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The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled against food and beverage company Dean Foods Co. in an antitrust case. The said lawsuit alleged that Dean Foods conspired to restrict competition for bottled milk in southeastern states in the US after its 2001 merger with Suiza Foods Corp.
RJ Lane filed a case against Deutsche Bank, BDO Seidman and a former partner of BDO Seidman over claims that they formed a fraudulent tax shelter that caused him losses, Bloomberg reported.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank filed a motion in a federal court in the Southern District of New York seeking a dismissal of the lawsuit filed by former employee Carmen Segarra.
Argentina's stock regulator CNV on Friday rejected Braskem's $1.35 per share bid to buy roughly 30% of the shares of plastics maker Solvay Indupa that are traded on the Buenos Aires bourse. CNV said that the offer was below Solvay Indupa's book value of $2.81 per share as of September.
Harbinger Capital Partners, controlled by American investor Philip Falcone, has asked the US Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan to reject Dish Network Corp.'s $2.2 billion takeover bid for bankrupt satellite firm LightSquared Inc.
A regulatory filing showed that Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors intends to raise up to $100 million in its initial public offering in New York, Reuters reported.
Alternative asset manager Carlyle Group has introduced its first two publicly listed mutual funds, paving the way for Carlyle to offer its investment platform to retail investors, Reuters reported.
JPMorgan Chase & Co settled a lawsuit brought against it by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh involving the losses it sustained from mortgage securities it bought from the bank, Bloomberg reported.
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry filed an infringement lawsuit against Typo Products, the startup co-founded by Ryan Seacrest, over its newly released smartphone keyboard that attaches to the iPhone5.
Pinterest, the popular US social networking startup, will be having difficulties expanding in international markets after a ruling the European Commission's Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, Trade Marks and Designs Division said the true owner of the brand name in the region is a London startup.