Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz is the editor of Richmond BizSense, and covers banking, lawsuits, finance, M&A and golf. He can be reached at [email protected] or 804-855-1037.

Trading Day: Inside the SEC filings for 2.24.11

More local execs cashing in on big money stock options; a local REIT raises $100 million a local video game maker losses millions. Plus a huge performance bonus at Tredegar.

A tale of two subdivisions

Mount Hermon Farms and Hickory Hill offer two very different takes on the home-building business.

Same song, new stage

A local startup rose out of the ashes of the collapse of Land America and hired many of the former company’s castaways. And the company just absorbed another local office full of former LandAmerica workers.

Trading Day: Inside the SEC filings for 2.17.11

Executives from several local public companies exercised millions of dollars worth of stock options over the past week. Genworth execs get big stock awards. Meanwhile, another company had to delay its year-end financials, and NewMarket pays big cash bonuses to its top dogs.

Local firm buys marine terminal in Chesapeake

Richmond-based Enviva has acquired a deepwater port terminal in Chesapeake to help ship products from its new North Carolina manufacturing facility.

Harris Williams cuts off an arm

Cobblestone most recently represented less than 5 percent of Harris Williams’s consolidated revenue.