Regulators in Washington, D.C., rejected Exelon Corp.’s takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc., throwing in doubt a $6.8 billion deal. Pepco dropped as much as 20 percent to its lowest price in more than a year. The three-member Public Service Commission ...

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Exelon Corp. can push ahead with its $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc. after a judge rejected arguments by Maryland officials that the deal gives the power company too much control over the state’s energy markets. Queen Anne’s County ...

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High school students who aspire to join the legal field are getting a glimpse of what it's like to work as a private practice attorney or in-house counsel this week.

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Exelon Corp., the largest U.S. nuclear operator, is planning to sell bonds to finance its acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc., a move that would create the biggest electric and natural gas utility in the Mid-Atlantic region. Exelon will sell notes ...

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The Maryland Public Service Commission has given its approval to a proposed merger between Exelon and Pepco Holdings Inc., but attached conditions to the deal. In a 3-2 decision, the commission approved the $6.83 billion merger but imposed nearly four ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan is taking a neutral stance on the proposed $6.8 billion merger between Exelon and Pepco Holdings, a position that has elicited disappointment from opponents of the deal.A coalition of environmental and social issues groups are among those who want Hogan to join with Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and others in opposing the merger, which critics note would make one company responsible for providing power to 85 percent of the state's residents.

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The potential appointments raised the eyebrows of some merger opponents because the panel had already heard arguments on the proposed merger and one nominee would mean a second former employee of BGE on the five-person commission.

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When a group of several dozen aspiring lawyers visited the Baltimore offices of Exelon Corp. last summer, they toured the firm’s trading floor and took part in workshops led by attorneys from the company’s legal department and from major law ...

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This week wrapped up two weeks of public hearings in Maryland on our proposed merger of Exelon and Pepco Holdings, Inc.

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(AP) The staff of New Jersey’s Public Utilities Board has proposed a settlement approving the Exelon-Pepco merger, which involves one of the state’s utility companies. Under the terms of Chicago-based Exelon’s proposed $6.8 billion merger with Washington-based Pepco Holdings, the ...

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