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         <title><![CDATA[Pengrowth Completes $200 Million Deal Via Lehman, HSBC ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Pengrowth Completes $200 Million Deal Via Lehman, HSBCHSBC and Lehman Brothers recently completed a $200 million private placement for Pengrowth Energy Trust, a Canadian oil and natural gas royalty trust.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Scheme Involving Private Placement Funds Draws SEC's Attention]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[  Top executives at Wextrust Capital, a real estate-focused private equity and specialty finance company, were indicted on charges levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission claiming that the firm's principals and four affiliated funds ran a massive Ponzi scheme. The SEC and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued separate statements claiming that Steven Byers and Joseph Shereshevsky, Wextrust's chief executive and former chief financial officer, respectively, diverted funds that had been raised through private placement offerings.  According to the SEC's complaint, Wextrust was formed in 2003 to pursue investment opportunities in undervalued real estate. An affiliate, Wextrust Securities, was created two years later to act as the selling agent for the private placement offerings. The Chicago firm also runs various commodities funds and controls interests in certain African diamond mines. Byers, the complaint says, was involved with the real estate investments, while Shereshevsky's role "was to take the lead in soliciting investors."]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Running Fox Completes Private Placement ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Running Fox Resources Corp., an oilfield services company that also owns oil and uranium as well as gold projects, said it has completed a private placement of 550,000 units at 40 cents a unit.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Opexa Placement To Help Fund MS Cell Therapies ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Woodlands, Texas-based Opexa Therapeutics, which specializes in stem cell therapy, said it completed a $3 million private placement which will be used to finance the clinical development of cell therapies for multiple sclerosis.]]></description>
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