Mar 30, 2021 Freshfields’ Ethan Klingsberg Featured on CNBC Discussing De-SPACs and Looming Shareholder Activism By Ethan Klingsberg On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Freshfields’ Ethan Klingsberg joined reporter Leslie Picker on CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange to discuss...
Mar 29, 2021 M&A in 2021 gets off to a flying start By Matthew Herman Robert Ashworth Richard Perks The M&A bull run that began in Q3 2020 shows no signs of slowing, with deal activity through the first three months of 2021 breaking the...
Mar 29, 2021 SEC Zeroes In on SPACs, Opening an Informal Investigation Into the Market’s Latest Trend By Michael Levitt Kimberly Zelnick Hannah Khalifeh As we have previously shared, market interest in special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) has been soaring this past year, with more...
Mar 26, 2021 Multiple European Union Authorities Announce Review of COVID-19 Relief Offered to the Aviation Sector By Amna Arshad Mark Goldberg Elske Raedts On March 3, 2021, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) announced that it was launching “an audit to assess whether the European...
Mar 25, 2021 The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part V By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan In this finale to our series comparing the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act to the GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, we finally cover perhaps the...
Mar 25, 2021 Special Edition - The LIBOR Sunset Series: ARRC shuts down Term SOFR in 2021 By Kyle Lakin Alice Dawson-Loynes David Almroth The LIBOR Sunset Series: Notes on the US LIBOR transition The London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”) for US Dollars, which forms the...
Mar 23, 2021 Recent Developments on Section 162(m) By Lori Goodman Cristell Fortune Jordan Salzman Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Section 162(m)”) generally prohibits publicly held corporations from taking income tax...
Mar 22, 2021 Takeaways from the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and Governance By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the hundreds of attendees, as well as the speakers and panelists, at the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and...
Mar 18, 2021 SPAC secret sauce could turn sour By Andrea Basham Paul Tiger Ethan Klingsberg Article originally appeared in Breakingviews. What will be the long-term impact of market enthusiasm for special-purpose acquisition...
Mar 17, 2021 The LIBOR Sunset Series: US Regulators' proposed contractual provision By David Almroth Kyle Lakin The LIBOR Sunset Series: Notes on the US LIBOR transition The London interbank offered rate for US Dollars (“LIBOR”), which forms the...
Mar 16, 2021 Sixth Circuit confirms that filing a notice of appearance by itself does not waive personal jurisdiction By Timothy Harkness Linda Martin David Livshiz Scott Eisman Yulia Dernovsky +2 more... Show less On February 23, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held in Blessing v. Chandrasekhar that defendants do not waive...
Mar 16, 2021 Digital Bank Robbers: Sanctions Risks for Digital Currency Service Companies By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Amy Cattle Andrew Bulovsky +1 more... Show less On February 17, 2021, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed charges against three North Koreans accused of conspiring to steal and...