GE Capital, the financing unit of General Electric, agreed to buy the Safeco Corporation's equipment-financing and leasing unit for an undisclosed price to increase loans to fast food franchises.
The bridegroom, 52, is a vice president for international sales at StudioCanal Image in Paris, the European motion picture finance and distribution unit of Vivendi Universal Studios.
The Central Finance and Contracts Unit is the Contracting Authority of the project.
He worked in Houston auditing the Enron account before Enron hired him in 1991 to work for Jeffrey K. Skilling, who was then head of the company's trading and finance unit and later became chief executive.
Mark Loughridge, 57, the chief financial officer, is being given a larger role overseeing finance, the company's financing unit, and internal information technology.
In the Lehman case, one person briefed on the matter said, the agency's division of corporation finance and other units might also weigh in.
While G.E. is a household name as a manufacturer of common household products like lights bulbs and electric fans, it also has a diverse portfolio of finance and business units.
GE Capital Solutions, the leasing and financing unit of the General Electric Company, said yesterday that it would buy Trustreet Properties, a restaurant real estate investment trust, for about $1.15 billion in cash, or $17.05 a share.
ICUs are part of a complex clinical environment with reciprocal financing between departments and units.
Elsewhere in Southern California, Hyundai operates a design studio and finance unit in Irvine, an advertising office in Huntington Beach and a parts distribution center in Ontario.
