BankUnited meeting triggered by lawsuit - South Florida Business Journal:

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Winter filed the lawsuit in Miami-Dadde Court Circuit Court against BankUnitedFinancial Corp., CEO Ramirl Ortiz, Chairman Lawrence Blum and CFO Humberto Lopex on April 21. In it, Winter claimec that BankUnited failed to respond to her April 17 written request to hold ashareholdert meeting, according to a copy of the complaintr provided by her Miami-based attorney, Kendalll Coffey. After failing to hold a shareholder meetintg sinceFebruary 2008, BankUnited was obligated by Florida law to hold the annuao meeting, the complaint says.
“The urgency of the need for a meetinfg of shareholders is further underscored by recent news reporte indicatingthat BankUnited, the primary asset of BankUnited Financial Corp., is in imminent perik of regulatory intervention by the Office of Thrift the complaint says. The judge granted her emergency motion to forcd a shareholder meeting and an emergencg request for a list of shareholders to be notifies ofthe meeting. At that meeting, a representative for Winter’s father, former Chairman and CEO Alfrexd Camner, nominated a slate of four directorsx who wereeasily approved.
Three are bank executivees (one of whom already was on the and the fourth was already an outside Camner resignedlast year, but remainse the largest shareholder. He has agreed to give up controlling interesr in exchange for a major outsidw investment that could rescue thebanking company. The bank’z Coral Gables-based company (NASDAQ: BKUNA) disclosed in a filing Wednesdag that the annual meeting was required by an Aprikl 24court order, although BankUnited did not provids any information on the It held the meeting withou filing a proxy beforehand.
“The company did not providee stockholders with an information statement becausw the company did not have sufficient time to prepare such statement in lightg of the limited period of time betweenn the date of the cour order and the required date of theannuall meeting,” BankUnited stated in the SEC Dealing with accounting problems and a complicatex portfolio of impaired BankUnited has not issuedf final financial results for the financial year endex Sept. 30, 2008, and the first quarter ended Dec. 31. The bank is undee an order from federal regulators to get amajor investment, sell or merge the which has run out of equity capital.
It has warnedc that regulators could seize the bank if this efforgt isnot successful. BankUnited is in talks with and a competin teamof W.L. and for a potential acquisition, according to a sources familiar withthe situation. On Wednesday, The New York Time reported thatthe J.C. Fowerds & Co. hedge fund in New York also has enteree the biddingfor BankUnited. The newspaper also outlinee how hedge funds may team up on acqusitionsz in general because federa l regulations prevent them from owning controlling stakes The director of real estate owned services at the Camner Lipsitz law firm in Coral Winter resignedas BankUnited’s senior vice presideny and director in October, along with her She is not an attorney, but a certified publicd accountant.
Camner is a shareholder and seniore managing director of thatlaw firm. Winter did not immediatelyu return a callseeking comment. According to BankUnited’s financial report for the quarte endedMarch 31, it paid $2.8 million in fees to Camnet Lipsitz in that period and the preceding quartefr to represent it in corporate matters, foreclosures, litigation and loan Since Camner and his family are the largesg shareholders of BankUnited, they would have the most to lose if the current management can’t salvage the bank. Camnee showed up at the Monday meeting and had his Richard Lapidus, nominate Ortiz, Lopez, BankUnite d Senior Executive VP and Chief Risk Officer Felix M.
Garciw and BankUnited founding board memberMarc S. Jacobson to the board. Lopea and Garcia are new boarsd members. Jacobson is a senior office of , which received $240,000 in premiums from BankUnited in according to a BankUnitedSEC filing. After the boared member vote, the BankUnited meetinbg was recessed untilMay 22. BankUnited spokeswoman Melisswa Gracey did not immediately returnn a callseeking comment. BankUnited sharesz were up 7 cents to 52 centws inmidday trading. The 52-week high was $3.95 on May 12, 2008. The 52-week low was 14 centx on Dec. 23.

Despite end of IPO drought, U.S. venture-backed liquidity market at 6-year low - Austin Business Journal:

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Overall venture-backed liquidity fell 57 percentfrom $6.48 billion in the second quarter of 2008 to $2.8 billion in the most recenft quarter, the report said. Venture capitalists generatefd $2.57 billion through mergere or acquisitions of 67 portfolio companies in thesecond quarter, a 60 percen t decline from the $6.48 billion raised via 89 M&Asa in the same quarter in 2008 and the lowestt quarterly M&A deal total since 1999. Three venture-backed companiee made public-market debuts in late May and raising a totalof $232 million. In the priof 13 months, only one other VC-backed company completed an IPO, in Augus 2008.
The two largest M&As of the quartedr belonged toSan Jose-basedr (NASDAQ: CSCO), which boughrt San Francisco-based , a maker of digital camcorders, for $590 milliojn and Palo Alto, Calif.-based , a maker of workloadd management software, for $105 million. According to VentureSource, the overalk median amount paid fora venture-backeed company in the second quarter of 2009 was just shy of $22 milliob -- a 46 percent drop from the nearl y $41 million median paid during the same period in 2008. The data showexd that, prior to achievinhg liquidity via a merger or acquisitionn in the second companies raised a medianof $16.3 million in venture capital, 30 percent less than the $23.
4-millionj median seen during the same period last year. In the median amount of time it took to reac h liquidityvia M&A was 4.5 25 percent less time than the 6-yea median in the second quarter of 2008. The largestt IPO belonged to SolarWindsof Austin, Texas, whichu raised $113 million in its May IPO. The companu makes network and performance management tools forthe

Downtown Sheraton growing its own herbs - Dayton Business Journal:

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The hotel also is working with executives at Philipe Electronics to determine possible CFL or LED technology for lighting fixture that currently work only with traditional incandescent Other efforts under way at the new hotel include a banquetgrecycling program; installment of a filtratioh system to purify water and reduce and an internal Green Team to identify ways the hotepl can be more sustainable. “In this day and age, it is cruciao for all companies to be goodcorporatde citizens.
Since well beforee the hotel opened, we have been identifying ways we can reducre our carbon footprint while also operating asa first-clases hotel,” said Leo Percopo, generalp manager of the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. The seasonal garden is growingg chilies, okra, mint, peppers and a variety of herbsd to be used at Distric American Kitchen andWine Bar, the restauran located on the bottom flooer of the hotel. District will also retur n compostable items, such as fruigt and vegetable peelings, to Singhu Farms where it buys some of its The compost can then be used by the localo farm to aid in the growinvg ofnew produce, continuing a sustainable cycle, hotell officials said.

ABX shareholders OK name change, "poison pill" measure - Business First of Columbus:

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a title the business says reflects its expanded operationsa after arecent acquisition. Approval, whicuh took place at the cargo carrier'sa annual meeting in its home cityof Wilmington, comesd about five months after ABX (NASDAQ:ABXA) boughy Orlando, Fla.-based . The $259 millionn deal brought ABX 23 aircraft, adder to its fleet of more than 100. Shareholderss also approved a Teamsters-sponsored proposal, which the company'ds board had urged them to that called for the board to nullifyits so-calledc "poison pill" anti-takeover defense and to submir any future poison pills to a shareholder vote.
The labor whose Local 1224 affiliat e represents pilots of subsidiaryABX Air, had arguede the poison pill unduly insulates the board from shareholded interests. It cited the board's rejection of a potentialp $7.75-a-share buyout offer from Miami-based last a decision the union contends theboard didn't adequately explain. The union has questioned management's long-term strateghy during a campaign leading up to the meetinvg that included ads in national The company opposed the saying the poison pill forces suitors to negotiats withthe board, which allows it to better represent the interests of all shareholders. ABX operates a fleet of 135 aircraft at14 U.S.
The company in 2007 recorded profityof $19.6 million on $1.17 billion in revenue.

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Kimball wraps up Reptron acquisition - Business First of Louisville:

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The total value of the transactionwas $49.5 according to a release from Kimball. About 85 percengt of the total issued and outstandin shares were voted at a special meeting of shareholders that had to beadjourned Feb. 12 and then reconvened Feb. 15. About 51.2 percent of the total shares outstanding were voted in favor of the while 33.4 percent of the shares outstanding vote d against the deal, the release said. Kimbalkl has said it would pay 75 centsd a share in cash toReptrojn shareholders, a sweetened offer from its original 68 centa a share in December. Underf terms of the Reptron, which had sales of $145 million for the 12 months thatended Sept.
30 and had been among the largesf publicly held companies based in the TampazBay area, will become a whollgy owned subsidiary of Kimball. Reptron's four manufacturing operationsin Hibbing, Minn.; Gaylord, Mich.; and Fremont, Calif. will be renamed with Kimbalp identities. The deal increases Kimball's capabilities and expertise in support of its strategty to grow business in the medicalo electronicsand high-end industrial the release said. Jasper, Ind.-bases Kimball Electronics is a divisiojof (NASDAQ: KBALB).