• Dr. Shahla Masood, professor and chair of the pathology department at the University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville, is the director of the 17th annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease scheduled Thursday-Sunday at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. Medical experts and specialists will discuss current and controversial issues in breast cancer. The keynote speaker is Dr. Monica Morrow, chief of breast service in the department of surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and president-elect of the Society of Surgical Oncology.
• After disclosing last fall that it acquired a 9.5 percent stake in the O’Charley’s Inc. restaurant company, Jacksonville-based Fidelity National Financial Inc. announced an agreement Monday to buy the rest of the O’Charley’s shares it doesn’t own for about $221 million. Although Fidelity is mainly a title insurance company, it has been investing some of its extra cash in the restaurant business, including a 45 percent stake in a partnership that owns the Village Inn chain. O’Charley’s operates more than 340 restaurants under the O’Charley’s, Ninety Nine and Stone River names.
• The Association for Corporate Growth North Florida chapter booked Web.com Group Inc. Chairman and CEO David L. Brown for its lunch meeting Feb. 16 at The River Club. Brown’s topic is “M&A, the Web.com Way.” The chapter’s March 22 meeting at Epping Forest Yacht Club will feature a panel discussion about “Selling To and Living With Private Equity.”
• The year is starting off more slowly for bankruptcies. During January, 578 bankruptcy petitions were filed in the Jacksonville division of the Middle District of Florida, down 11 percent from 650 in January 2011 and down almost 19 percent from 710 in January 2010, which was a record year. Middle District filings were down almost 13 percent to 3,426 in January from 3,919 in 2011 and down 24 percent from 4,499 in 2010.
• The Public Policy Institute at Jacksonville University announced the members of its advisory board: Fernando Acosta-Rua, Ronald Austin, Dr. Yank Coble, Gary Chartrand, Robert Clements, Joseph Debs, Ray Driver, Brenda Ezell, Steve Halverson, Preston Haskell, Cyrus Jollivette, Kelly Madden, Douglas Miller, John Peyton, Daniel Rice, John Rood, Bob Shircliff, Richard Sisisky, William Walton, Nina Waters and Ben Warner. Rick Mullaney is director of the institute, which plans to create Florida’s first master’s degree in public policy and to have a degree program in place for fall 2013.
• The Cultural Council Arts Awards event is scheduled 6-9 p.m. May 8 in the 28th floor Foard Studio at AT&T Tower 301, which soon will be renamed EverBank Center. For information, visit www.CulturalCouncil.org.
• Simon Property Group Inc. said Monday that The Avenues mall will add four tenants, including fashion retailer H&M, which will open its first Jacksonville store there in late summer. The two-level, 18,000-square-foot store will open in the mall’s Center Court. The Bare Escentuals makeup store will open in March; the Papaya fashion store will open in late spring; and the Vans youth footwear chain will open its first Jacksonville store there in the spring.
• Gov. Rick Scott appointed Cranford Coleman as chair and Brian Graham to the Early Learning Coalition of Clay, Nassau, Baker and Bradford Counties Inc. Coleman, of Orange Park, is the president of Baronco Management Consultants Inc. Graham, of Fleming Island, is the co-owner of Dixie Strategies L.L.C. and community outreach director with the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office. Their terms began Monday. Coleman’s term ends April 30, 2013. Graham’s term ends April 30, 2015.