Corporate & Securities Law

NYS Attorney General Investigates Auction Rate Securities Market
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating the auction-rate securities market and has sent subpoenas to eighteen institutions seeking information...

Massachusetts Files Complaint Against UBS for Marketing of Auction Rate Securities
The Massachusetts Securities Division has filed a complaint against UBS Securities LLC and UBS Financial Services, alleging violations of the Massachusetts Uniform Securities in connection with the sale of auction rate securities (ARS) to retail customers...

SEC Staff Provides Some Auction Rate Securities Relief
SEC Staff Provides Some Auction Rate Securities Relief The Investment Management and Corp Fin Staffs recently provided some no-action relief to Eaton Vance Management in one of the latest efforts to deal with the locked-up auction rate securities markets...

State Regulators and Attorney General Probe Banks and Brokers in Auction-Rate Securities Debacle.
New York, NY: New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched a probe into the failure of the auction rate securities market...

UBS, You Are Pissed At Us
That's a line from a recent auction rate securities article at Registered Rep Magazine...

SEC Investigates Wachovia's ARS Practices
Wachovia disclosed that the SEC and other regulators are seeking information about the underwriting, sale, and auctions of municipal auction-rate securities and auction-rate preferred securities...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
Phantom Income Relief on Debt Cancellation

New York Building Codes
Building and constructions laws in New York

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

How to collect a personal loan from a spouse?
You local court will probably have someone to offer you some assistance as you p...

Haw can I join with my family who live in the USA?
Only you are allowed to can join your sister....

How to make a landlord honor an option to buy provision in the lease (OH)?
Most leases are written as a one year agreement, if neither party elects to form...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

If my stepmother goes on Medicaid, can they take my father's house and assets if they have been separated for many years but are still legally married (NJ)?
if medicaid up there is the same as in sc, they willnot take the houses. medicai...

Auction Rate Securities
ARS stocks purchased from a brokerage

Mylicon Baby's Gas Relief Drops
Urgently Recalled Nationwide

Securities Settlement
GMH Trust Securities to pay $8.75 million in pending class action suit.

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

State Farm
Settles with Mississippi Attorney General

Ticketmaster Entertainment
Settles with New Jersey Attorney General