This article aims to demystify the legal framework and legal interpretation for the newly minted, digital-native lawyer and for the curious regulatory reader, using the banking sector as ...

Davis Polk partner Ronan Harty and counsel Mary Marks authored the “United States” chapter in the twenty-fourth edition of Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control. The book provides ...

Financial regulatory reform has remained firmly on the agenda of both lawmakers and regulators in the United States throughout 2018 and into 2019. Overall, the fundamental features of the...

The SEC’s digital asset Framework summarizes and extends the traditional Howey analysis for determining when an investable asset is a security. The author suggests that the Framework fo...

Davis Polk partners Dan Hirschovits and Simon Witty and counsel Jamie Corner were contributing authors to LexisNexis’s Market Tracker 2018 “Trends in UK Equity Capital Markets” repo...

  Davis Polk partner Avi Gesser co-authored an article with associates Matthew Kelly, Anna Marienko and Will Schildknecht that was published in the New York Law Journal on June 3, 2019. T...

Davis Polk partner Annette Nazareth was the contributing editor for the second edition of Getting the Deal Through: Financial Services Compliance, a compilation of the rules and approache...

  Davis Polk partner Annette Nazareth and counsel Zachary Zweihorn co-authored the “Federal Securities Regulation: Securities Act and Exchange Act” section of the American Bar Associa...

In this chapter for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2019, Davis Polk partner Meyer Dworkin examines the primary features of delayed draw term loans...

  One of the many plotlines shaping the emerging cryptocurrency story for 2019 involves the repeated attempts by fund sponsors, over the last year or so, to bring cryptocurrency-related f...