30 Dec, 2022 Treasury Issues Notice 2023-2, Clarifying Application of the Stock Buyback Excise Tax By Claude Stansbury Joe Soltis Brendan Counihan On December 27, 2022, the IRS and Treasury issued Notice 2023-2 (the Notice), providing guidance on the stock buyback excise tax that was...
30 Dec, 2022 The SEC Adopts Final Rules on Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans and Related Disclosures By Pamela Marcogliese Brandon Gantus Mary Eaton Sarah Ghulamhussain Tracy Zhang Fatima Anjum +3 more... Show less On December 14, 2022, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 10b5-1 and new disclosure requirements aimed at enhancing investor protections...
30 Dec, 2022 President Biden Signs Law Increasing Top HSR Filing Fee by Nearly $2M By Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Meytal McCoy Megan Yeates Rita Xia Donna Faye Imadi +2 more... Show less On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, which includes the Merger Filing Fee...
23 Dec, 2022 SEC Grants Approval of NYSE and Nasdaq’s Proposed Relaxed Pricing Limits for Primary Direct Listings By Pamela Marcogliese Taryn Zucker Lauren Lee On August 26, 2020 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved the New York Stock Exchange’s (“NYSE”) rule proposal that...
16 Dec, 2022 SEC Publishes Sample Comment Letter Due to Recent Volatility in Crypto Asset Markets By Jeremy Barr Michael Lam On December 8, 2022, the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...
16 Dec, 2022 Freshfields Team Authors Anti-Corruption Practice Guide By Eric Bruce Justin Simeone The Biden Administration has made clear that efforts to counter corruption are a core pillar of the country’s national security strategy....
09 Dec, 2022 Historic FCC action banning technologies from certain Chinese companies signals continuing U.S. targeting of market-leading Chinese technologies By Aimen Mir Nabeel Yousef Brock Dahl Colin Costello Donna Faye Imadi +2 more... Show less Over a year ago, Congress passed the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, mandating that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) block the...
08 Dec, 2022 Freshfields partner and co-head of US Corporate and M&A Ethan Klingsberg talks M&A and capital markets in 2023 with Bloomberg TV By Ethan Klingsberg Partner and co-head of US Corporate and M&A Ethan Klingsberg recently appeared on Bloomberg TV during "Bloomberg Markets: Americas" to...