Tag Archives: bankrupt

New Job

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Adrian

Well, actually it’s my old job, although not completely. So Lehman Brothers Holding filed for Chapter 11 a couple of weeks ago, the US bit got bought whole by Barclays Capital, and Nomura International are in the process of buying … Continue reading →

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Turning Japanese

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Adrian

So today we find out that the European Lehman business was acquired by Nomura. We lose the US, but keep with the Lehman guys in Tokyo. Our new CEO, Kenichi san, looks like a top geezer too. Interesting times, lots … Continue reading →

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Undead

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Adrian

So it’s been a week and we’re still moving. In fact we were quite busy today. Can’t really say what about, though. It’s certainly an experience.

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Marie Celeste

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Adrian

Well, not quite, there are a few people around, but not as many as last week, or yesterday for that matter. If Barclays (or anyone) are going to buy any assets here they’ll have to hurry up, else there will … Continue reading →

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Barclays

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Adrian

So it seems that Barclays (the UK company based only a few mins walk from Lehman UK) has bought the Lehman US Investment Bank along with over 9,000 people. In the US. That’s nice, but it kind of leaves us … Continue reading →

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Lehman

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Adrian

I’ve never worked for a company before that went bankrupt whilst I was still employed by it. Going to be an interesting day.

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