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...
03 Jun, 2022 The Other Shoe Drops: California Court Invalidates Statute Requiring Women on Corporate Boards, Eliminating All Board Diversity Requirements By Elizabeth Bieber Jennifer Burrow Evelyne Kim Background On September 30, 2018, Senate Bill 826 (SB 826) was signed into law in California, which required publicly held corporations...
04 Mar, 2022 Why the SEC’s Proposed New Direction on Beneficial Ownership Reporting Is a Win for Boards and Investors By Ethan Klingsberg Damien Zoubek Paul Tiger Elizabeth Bieber +1 more... Show less This article originally appeared in The New York Law Journal on March 1, 2022. Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission...
16 Dec, 2021 Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Sebastian Fain Freshfields is pleased to announce our annual Board Memo 2022: Sustainability and Beyond. This year’s report focuses on guiding boards...
28 Oct, 2021 The Season of ESG By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber Partner Pamela Marcogliese and counsel and head of activism and shareholder engagement Elizabeth Bieber were recently interviewed by the...
30 Mar, 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...
03 Mar, 2021 End of "liquidity premium" to unleash shareholder activism: Companies will face questioning from investors on how to allow allocate excess funds By Ethan Klingsberg Article originally appeared in The Financial Times. Publicly traded companies are increasingly hearing privately from investors that the...
10 Dec, 2020 Board memo 2021: A guide to taking on the recovery era By Pamela Marcogliese Elizabeth Bieber We are pleased to present Freshfields’ Board memo 2021: A guide to taking on the recovery era, featuring contributions from our lawyers...
10 Sep, 2020 MarketWatch op-ed: If the SEC changes this disclosure rule, the hardest part of being a company director will get even harder By Ethan Klingsberg Elizabeth Bieber Building on the constructive discussions that senior personnel from the top institutional holders of public companies had with over 150...
06 Jun, 2020 Beyond the pandemic: the future of M&A By Matthew Herman After a period of hibernation, there are now signs of life returning to the M&A markets. In just the past week, we have seen a trio of...
21 May, 2020 Important defense tools against activists in cross-border M&A: local regulatory authorities By Ethan Klingsberg Sebastian Fain Elizabeth Bieber Hervé Pisani Arnaud Mouton +2 more... Show less Following a five-year-long saga, the enforcement committee of French market regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) fined Elliott...