Lazard said Monday that it had hired Marc H. Katz to serve as managing director for telecom, media and technology. Mr. Katz comes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a managing director for mergers and acquisitions in the same industries. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

On a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine, The New York Times writes. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Mosaic, the American producer of phosphate and potash fertilizer, is in talks to buy Mexican rival Grupo Fertinal, in a deal that may be valued at as much as $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Accounts, people and miscellany. Read more..

By STUART ELLIOTT - The New York Times

Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, began her week with a bit of honest heresy, the kind that only she, among all the bank regulators, seems willing to utter in the wake of the financial crisis, Joe Nocera writes in his latest column. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

As the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico follows on the heels of the financial crisis, we can discern a toxic recipe for catastrophe, Richard H. Thaler writes in a column in The New York Times. Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times

Mr. Wussler helped transform a superstation known mostly for its Atlanta Braves baseball coverage into a media enterprise including CNN and the TNT network. Read more..

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN - The New York Times

White Collar Watch examines why co-defendants of R. Allen Stanford do not want to be put on trial with him for fraud and their prospects for getting separate trials. Read more..

By PETER J. HENNING - The New York Times

A new amended complaint by shareholders over the proposed management buyout of Landry’s Restaurants makes disturbing new charges, the Deal Professor writes. Read more..

By STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON - The New York Times

Xinjiang Goldwind, the Chinese alternative energy company, said Monday that it had decided to cancel its $1.2 billion initial public offering because of “unexpected and excessive market volatility.” Read more..

By DEALBOOK - The New York Times