PwC Administrators Help Sell Lehman Europe to Nomura

As we blogged earlier, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP are the joint administrators to Lehman Brothers International Europe (‘Lehman Brothers’), and today’s announcement on the PwC UK website and over all financial newswires generally is that the investment banking and equities businesses of Lehman Brothers are being sold to Nomura of Japan. The deal covers investment banking and equities in the Netherlands, Qatar, Dubai, Kuwait, the U.K., Italy, Germany and Sweden, but excludes trading assets or trading liabilities...

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BearingPoint Gets New COO, Ed Harbach

We notice that BearingPoint (NYSE: BE) has recently appointed a new President and COO, Ed Harbach, reporting to Harry You, CEO. Interestingly Ed Harbach also comes from Accenture, we believe where Harry You also spent some time as CFO. He is being awarded around 900,000 restricted stock units to vest over four years. BE stock has been flat recently, so if things turn around, there can be good upside for Mr. Harbach...



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PwC in a bit of Miso Soup in Japan

PricewaterhouseCoopers had landed in a bit of miso soup in Japan, as authorities there begin to keep a closer watch on auditor independence. Japan's Financial Services Authority took a historic step in suspending a local audit firm associated with PwC for 2 months....


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