Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP has provided a comment letter to the Securities & Exchange Commission with respect to the SEC’s...
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Thank you to the over 200 in-person and several hundred virtual attendees at the 8th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the...
Vice Chancellor Laster’s recent opinion in Goldstein v. Denner provides a useful reminder of the importance of documenting board...
Under the Biden Administration, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has prioritized aggressive antitrust enforcement, including in the...
On June 8, 2022, Paul Munter, the SEC’s Acting Chief Accountant, issued a statement (the “statement”) emphasizing the importance of the...
Under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, a district court may grant discovery “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal.” For...
On May 13, 2022, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui released a redacted Memorandum Opinion disclosing that the US Department of Justice (DOJ)...
On May 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., which addressed whether the waiver of a right to arbitrate by...
On May 24, 2022 YJ Fischer, the director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Office of International Affairs, gave a speech on...
Background On September 30, 2018, Senate Bill 826 (SB 826) was signed into law in California, which required publicly held corporations...