SEC pays out $103M from BofA fine
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has distributed more than $103 million to investors it says lost money because of improper trades...
Prov Equity may buy Lloyd’s List
PROVIDENCE – Providence Equity Partners Ltd. has confirmed that it has paired with The Carlyle Group to structure a bid to buy Informa Plc,...
Financial woes shutter Education Partnership
PROVIDENCE – The Education Partnership, a public-policy coalition established to help improve the quality of education in Rhode Island, has filed for receivership.
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Lenders loom as next hurdle for BCE buyout
MONTREAL – The $51 billion leveraged buyout of Canadian telephone giant BCE Inc. (NYSE: BCE), by a group of investors led by Ontario Teachers’...
Long hours are no burden when business is yours
A woman can be expected to put a tremendous amount of work into a business that she herself starts because it is a joy...
Memorial is getting personal with e-health records
Fred Lermer has come close to death a couple of times – with bleeding ulcers for which he needed surgery, and with a blood...
No job too big or small for Casali
When the University of Rhode Island was looking for a firm to design a plan for its rural Kingston campus to curb a flooding...
‘Monster’ court dispute is looming
For more than a year, business owner Christina Vitagliano has been locked in a battle over her company’s name – a trademark dispute that...
Canadian asbestos cases dismissed
In dismissing 39 asbestos-related injury cases in May that originated in Canada, from plaintiffs who neither lived nor worked in Rhode Island, the R.I....
Lynch new president of National<br> Association of Attorneys General
The National Association of Attorneys General named Rhode Island’s chief law enforcement official, Patrick C. Lynch, its new president at its annual summer meeting,...