The banks would pay Equity Residential an undisclosed breakup fee if the deal doesn't close.
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Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, the chief sponsor of the pay equity bill, vowed to return to the bill until it passes.
Carnahan said she "perhaps" would make an additional commitment to women's issues, including pay equity, child care and breast cancer research.
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There's a loophole in the law for performance-based pay (like options), but the law still stands as a stark statement about pay equity.
This higher degree of transparency in the public sector may be related to the greater gender pay equity in the federal government, the institute says.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on pay equity, while the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed merger between NBC and Comcast.
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The National Committee on Pay Equity decided that this day marks the point in the new calendar year that a woman must work in order to earn the same wages as a man would have in the previous year.
Nowhere did Romney discuss such issues as pay equity, access to safe and legal birth control and abortion services, and, for those of us who have young children, restoring cuts in education funding, all of which would both show love and make our lives less hard right away.
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Among the smaller companies, 44 percent of board pay is equity-based.
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This will manifest itself in companies devoting a lower proportion of pay in time-based equity, like restricted stock, and a higher proportion of pay in performance-based equity, like performance shares.
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Traditionally CDOs buy assets at par and use the cash flows to pay debt and equity investors.
If they were, the pay in private equity would be much lower.
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They will struggle to raise more capital because the government is cash-strapped and reluctant to pay for more equity, yet simultaneously unwilling to dilute its stakes in the banks.
Mr Darling has said the measure will ensure private equity firms pay fairer taxes.
Take dividend recapitalisations, in which private-equity firms put more debt into a company and take out equity to pay themselves and investors (see chart).
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We've talked with others among Drexe's old customers who confirm that you advised them to sell equity and pay debt in the late 1980s.
In a similar vein he also attacks capital regimes and deposit-insurance schemes that require banks to raise equity and pay premiums when losses are high.
Tapping home equity to pay for college can be relatively cheap.
These bonds will convert into equity when financial distress becomes substantial or forces banks to issue equity to pay back the bonds to prevent the dilution.
Lawmakers want to significantly raise the tax rate Blackstone and other private equity firms pay, and many have called for stricter regulation of hedge fund activities.
Public pensions support private equity because private equity managers pay hundreds of millions to political operatives for that support and pass the cost onto the pension participants and, of course, taxpayers.
For instance, a portfolio of Agency MREITs which are mostly defensive are a good complement to the BDCs which require a strengthening economy to help their debt and equity investments pay off for shareholders.
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They decided that the lifestyle they had built was no longer sustainable and decided to make structural changes, by selling their home and renting, using the equity to pay off debts, establish a cash emergency fund and contributed to college savings for their children, which was of major importance.
"These guys took most of their pay in the form of equity, " says Schmidt.
REITs have been using capital raised through equity sales to pay down debt and make acquisitions.
Rising debt multiples and falling financing costs has allowed private equity firms to pay more for properties.
And how will the onset of a global credit squeeze affect what private-equity groups can pay for a capital-intensive business with a time horizon of three to five years?
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The vast majority of real estate investment trusts--known as equity REITs--pay mostly cash for high-grade commercial properties.
Mr. Schmidt wrote that company surveys indicate salary is more important to Google employees than any other component of pay, such as bonuses or equity.
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