[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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Investors who own 5.4 percent of First California Financial Group’s shares have joined the ranks of disgruntled stockholders after the bank snubbed a buyout offer from Los Angeles-based PacWest Bancorp. A letter dated May 23 from Loeb Offshore Management out of New York came through in the bank’s regulatory filings on May 29. Addressing Westlake Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies has agreed to purchase a New York-based electronics testing instruments maker in a deal valued at $291 million. Teledyne, an industrial-defense conglomerate, is set to purchase Chestnut Ridge-based LeCroy Corp. for $14.30 a share, for a total of about $240 million. Stock options, appreciation rights and net debt push the deal Read More →