1. No private equity M&A boom in 2025, but…. Thousands of private equity portfolio companies are past their “sell by” dates and private...
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Insights on US legal developments
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has exercised enforcement discretion to allow companies reporting under the Climate Corporate...
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The Freshfields’ team reviewed trends and developments for the 2024 proxy season, summarizing the key takeaways and guidance across the...
With the recent one-year anniversary of three of the largest bank failures in U.S. history—shortly preceded by the largest bank merger...
On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) stayed the Securities and...
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted its long anticipated rules, amending Regulations S-K and S-X...
The recent post-trial opinion by the Delaware Court of Chancery in In re Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc. Stockholder...
On January 24, 2024, the SEC issued a 581-page release which adopted new rules to govern SPAC IPOs and de-SPAC business combinations. To...
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The roundtable on “New Developments in Cross-Border M&A” hosted recently by the American College of Governance Counsel and Les Club des...
The final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 does not include the changes to Section 16 proposed by...
An update has since been posted and can be found at this link. For decades, Foreign Private Issuers (“FPIs”) and their insiders have been...
With a government shutdown looming, the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC has updated its guidance outlining the “extremely...