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Blackwolf Copper and Gold (TSX-V:BWCG) CEO Morgan Lekstrom joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news about this appointment as CEO. This after...

The growing popularity of receivership administration can mean opportunity for commercial real estate professionals.

Months after Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners abandoned an Ohio steel plant and left scores of workers without jobs, financial crime experts at Deutsche Bank shot up a troubling alert. Millions of dollars were flowing into its...

A look back at the Northeast Ohio business week that was.

A lender's stalled push to sell the Westin Cleveland Downtown hotel picked up velocity Tuesday, Feb. 15, when the state's highest court rejected a legal challenge to the sale process.

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Jan. 20 that it had filed another civil… - Jan. 31, 2022. By Roman Woronowycz

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Westin Cleveland Downtown will close next week unless judge steps in, lender seeking foreclosure claims © Plain Dealer file photo/cleveland.com/TNS The Westin Cleveland Downtown, seen here in a file photo. CLEVELAND, Ohio — A lender seeking to foreclose on the Westin Cleveland Downtown said the owner’s financial woes would lead to the hotel’s closure by next week unless a judge steps in and appoints a receiver. Popular Searches Attorneys for Cleveland International Fund wrote in a cour...

The tycoon is rumored to have influence in the administration while activists say he controls at least 30 parliament deputies in the presidents party. In his statement, Blinken accused Kolomoyskiy of being "involved in corrupt acts that undermined rule of law and the Ukrainian public’s faith in their government’s democratic institutions and public processes" while serving as governor. Kolomoyskiy used "his political influence and official power for his personal benefit," Blinken’s stateme...

U.S. sanctions Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Cleveland commercial real estate BLOOMBERG Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg The United States has imposed sanctions against billionaire Igor Kolomoisky, who is the subject of a money-laundering probe related to the near-collpase of PrivatBank, Ukraines largest lender. The U.S. blacklisted a Ukrainian billionaire and said its ready to help fight corruption in the country at the center of Donald Trumps first impeachment trial and an effort to discredit Presid...