Thousand Oaks-based Amgen is set to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could make it harder for shareholders to band together and sue publicly traded companies over public comments made by top officials. The court agreed to hear a stock-fraud case this fall between Amgen and Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, Read More →
Venoco has extended CEO Tim Marquez’s deadline to July 20 to disclose how he will finance his effort to take the company private. Marquez’s buyout of the company, which is based in Denver but has about 150 employees in the Tri-Counties, was approved by shareholders on June 5. But at the time of the approval, Read More →
Venoco CEO Tim Marquez, a former petroleum engineer, has proven that he has the shareholder votes to take his company private. But does he have the money? The question came into sharp focus on June 5, when Venoco shareholders approved Marquez’s bid to buy the 49 percent of the company’s shares he doesn’t already own Read More →
Staying the course for now will pay off in the long run, according to City National Bank’s chief investment officer. Bruce Simon, who oversees investment activities for the $24 billion nationwide bank, and economist Chris Thornberg gave mid-year updates at a June 6 forum hosted by City National in Camarillo at the Spanish Hills Country Read More →
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NYSE:VQ” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”05-12-2011″ enddate=”05-06-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] [Editor’s Note: Correction appended below.] Venoco shareholders have approved CEO Tim Marquez’s bid to take the company private despite the fact that he has yet to give details on how he would gather the nearly $400 million in financing to close the deal. After the June Read More →
The parent of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust has walked away from a consent order place on it by regulators two years ago, it said June 4. Pacific Capital Bancorp, the region’s largest bank, said that its agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco was terminated effective May 23. That frees the $5.8 Read More →
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