Davis Polk partners Will Pearce and John Bick are delighted to be contributing editors of the updated edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2019, a comprehensive overview of t...

The chargeable gains rules, and other tax legislation, do not deal with partnerships very clearly. In examining partnership transactions it can be helpful first to consider the attributes...

Davis Polk partner Ronan Harty and counsel Mary Marks author the “United States” chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2019, which covers the regulation of mergers and j...

Davis Polk partner Marshall Huebner and associate Benjamin Schak discuss the importance for directors and officers to review insurance coverage protecting their personal assets from lawsu...

  In the last decade, Bitcoin and countless other open-source, decentralised protocols inspired by Bitcoin (for example, Ethereum and Monero) have come to represent a $300 billion-plus ma...

  Most U.S. lawyers know very little about foreign laws governing the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. However, ignoring those laws might, in certain circumstances, mak...

Financial Regulation: Law and Policy, Second Edition, Foundation Press, August 2018 This textbook takes as its starting point today’s financial sector, which has been reshaped by the Fi...

  Davis Polk partner Annette Nazareth served as Contributing Editor of the inaugural edition of Getting the Deal Through – Financial Services Compliance, and Davis Polk partner Karen Ch...

In an evolving securities landscape, examinations of investment advisers remain a key priority for the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). By understanding O...

Market participants are undertaking significant work to prepare for a transition away from LIBOR. This publication focuses on the legal framework and other issues related to fallback lang...