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...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently held that a former owner and the co-inventor of a patent may challenge the validity of the patent in an inter partes review after assigni...

It is widely known that in order to complete deals involving US companies, non-US firms must successfully navigate a labyrinth of local and US regulatory hurdles. One of those regulatory ...

The possibility that a C-level executive might have his or her compensation “clawed back” after engineering a financial fraud is not new. Many corporate officers, however, may not rea...

  Ronan Harty and Mary Marks author the United States chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2017, which covers the regulation of mergers and joint ventures in 72 jurisdictio...

Despite the efforts of the US government to discourage inversion transactions through US tax changes announced earlier this year, the flow of such deals has not yet dried up. Given the UK...

This article first appeared in Compliance Reporter. A key hurdle in preparing for life as a security-based swap dealer (SBSD) will be implementing operational changes and written policies...