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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...
PROVIDENCE EQUITY PARTNERS is considering a bid that would give it ownership of the nearly three-century-old maritime newspaper Lloyd's List. /

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. “You have...

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’...
KEEP FIGHTING: Sandra Ruiz-Desai, far left, owner of Desai Communications in 
Connecticut, says hard work and positive thinking will help make a business successful. Next to her are, from left, Michelle Girasole, Vanessa Crum and llira Steinman. /

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...
CUMBERLAND’S Fred Lermer is one of 30 patients using electronic personal health records created by Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island as part of a pilot project. /

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...
CASALI & D’AMICO ENGINEERING President Joseph Casali started the Warwick-based firm in 2003 when he was 29. /

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...
BUSINESS OWNERS Christina and Patrick Vitagliano have refused to back down in a trademark battle with Monster Cable Products Inc. /

‘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...
PRECEDENT-SETTING RULING: Attorney Jerry Petros represented General Electric in a case that the state Supreme Court ruled 
couldn’t be tried in Rhode Island. /

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,...
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