It, too, will also face increased regulatory oversight, not to mention litigation.
That's the assessment of a growing number of analysts who say the risks of tens of billions of dollars in new exposure to potentially bad loans, not to mention litigation and an ongoing criminal probe, aren't worth even the rock-bottom $4 billion price Lewis negotiated in January for the biggest independent U.S. mortgage lender.
If public pensions are run professionally and cost-effectively, what's behind recent calls for stricter regulation of them, not to mention litigation against the people who run them?
Litigation No matter how BP fares with all the dimensions of crisis management mentioned above, litigation may be the most critical.
Fidelity National did not mention this litigation to its shareholders until October 2009 — a silence that speaks volumes about how tricky "full disclosure" can be in a world that increasingly demands it but rarely defines it.
They might even have another effect, one that Sanford Weill and his peers would surely applaud: busy C.E.O.s would be spared not only the trouble of making lobbying phone calls to fancy private schools but also the embarrassment, not to mention the litigation, that ensues when those unedifying efforts are exposed.
The filing also mentions the litigation brought by High River, which alleged the new loans breach terms of Realogy's senior toggle notes contract.
Last week, in writing about the settlement between Irving Picard, the Madoff trustee, and Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the owners of the New York Mets, I mentioned the ongoing litigation brought against the trustee by a lawyer named Helen Davis Chaitman, who claims to represent some 800 Madoff victims, both net losers and net winners (who, I should point out, have very divergent interests).
Only the clinicians from the Netherlands mentioned fear of litigation as a growing problem.
