Sallie Mae Settles Suit Over Buyout That Fizzled
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The embattled student lending giant, reached a settlement over its scuttled $25 billion buyout, ending months of legal fighting.
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Student lending company Sallie Mae  posted a fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, citing higher  provisions for loan losses due to the weakening credit markets.
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A bitter battle between Sallie Mae and New York investment firms ended with a whimper yesterday.
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The consortium that agreed to buy  student lender Sallie Mae for $25 billion said on Wednesday  that as of today conditions for the closing of the deal would  not be met.
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Wall Street brokerage house Lehman Brothers Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay $222.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it and other banks and brokerages helped the failed energy giant Enron Corp. mislead investors.
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Two companies that manage and market Franklin Templeton mutual funds have agreed to pay a total of &#36;20 million to settle federal regulators' charges that they failed to disclose their use of fund assets to pay brokerages for steering customers to the funds.
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Two companies that manage and market Franklin Templeton mutual funds have agreed to pay a total of $20 million to settle federal regulators' charges that they failed to disclose their use of fund assets to pay brokerages for steering customers to the funds.
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Sallie Maeâs would be buyers say the merger contract allows it to terminate the deal due to recent changes in student lending, which have reduced its potential for future earnings.
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Software giant settles with Novell and the CCIA, ending years of legal wrangling.
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Sallie Mae said it sold $2 billion of common stock and $1 billion of convertible securities Thursday in a deal that would help pay off bad derivatives bets.
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The accounting firm KPMG has agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit claiming the company failed in its audit of a software company which later collapsed.
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Sallie Mae Chairman Albert L. Lord sold $18.3 million worth of company stock last week, just days before the Bush administration unveiled a multibillion-dollar cut in subsidies to the lending industry that caused Sallie Mae shares to plummet.
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The investor group led by J.C. Flowers  & Co. that agreed to buy out student loan firm Sallie Mae for  $25 billion said proposals to cut government subsidies to  student lenders could threaten the deal, Sallie Mae said on  Wednesday.
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Sallie Mae Chairman Albert L. Lord yesterday sold 1.2 million shares -- a big chunk of his stock -- to meet the requirements of his "borrowing arrangements," the student lending giant said.
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General Electric Co. yesterday agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the company of failing to provide shareholders
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International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday that it agreed to settle most of the issues in a lawsuit over changes in its pension plans on terms that allow the company to continue to appeal a key question while capping its liability at &#36;1.7 billion.
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Michael Jackson on Monday settled a breach-of-contract suit brought by a financial firm that claimed to have brokered the deal that allowed him to avoid default on more than $270 million in loans last year.