When Frank McCourt decided that enough was enough and reached a settlement with MLB to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, immediately attention shifted from McCourt to who the new owners might be.
On Monday the WTO's dispute settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright and trademark claims.
Pfizer reached a settlement that enabled Actavis and a second company to sell slightly cheaper generic versions starting Nov. 30, 2011 and several other generic drugmakers to begin selling generic Lipitor six months later.
Since they face the same lawyers over and over, both sides have worked out a simple bargain: In exchange for fees, the plaintiff lawyers sell absolution in the form of a blanket settlement of their claims.
Also, Facebook says that directors Marc Andreesen and Donald Graham intend to sell some stock to satisfy taxes related to the vesting or settlement of their RSUs.
The settlement also has required Wall Street firms to devote thousands of hours to track buy, sell and hold ratings for every analyst and create paper trails of signed documents to demonstrate every report contains untainted opinions.