In May 2014, the Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) gave a speech to the Private Fund C...

Following a consultation regarding the extent to which parties to UK takeover offers may be held to statements they make, the Takeover Code was amended in 2015 to regulate two types of st...

  The primary purpose of procuring insurance coverage for a company’s directors and officers (D&O Insurance) is to protect the personal assets of directors and officers from lawsuits ar...

Davis Polk lawyers Meyer Dworkin and Samantha Hait recently authored a chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2017, Fifth Edition. In “Escrow...

Thomson Reuters has released Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition in a joint venture with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. Among the 296...

  Shareholder activism in the UK remained topical in 2016 with a number of high profile campaigns including ValueAct’s investment in Rolls Royce, Elliot’s investment in Meggitt and in...

Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, Laura Turano and Thomas Malinowsky are the contributing editors to the second edition of Getting the Deal Through: Shareholder Activism & Engagement 2017, a vo...

The authors of this article discuss a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling that noteholders were entitled to payment of an optional redemption premium at the make-who...

In recent years, secured credit facilities provided to funds have been dominated by two forms: the “Subscription Facility” and the “NAV Facility”. In this article, we focus on iss...

With the imminent change in administration in the U.S., Annette Nazareth and Gabriel Rosenberg of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group offer their regulatory reform predictions for...