The SEC plans to vote on a proposal on March 25 to amend Exchange Act Rule 15b9-1, which currently enables a certain group of limited business broker-dealers to avoid FINRA membership. In...

The ABI Commission’s report on Chapter 11 reform is starting a controversial conversation. Attorneys Damian S Schaible and Kevin J. Coco discuss specific proposals that will affect secu...

Bernie Madoff’s investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (Madoff Securities), famously imploded in December 2008 under the weight of the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S....

On Feb. 9, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act (13 CARE 321, 2/13/15) (13 CARE 376, 2/20/15). The prop...

Favourable market conditions have led to a recent rise in PIPE deals. In this article, Paul Chow and Miranda So of Davis Polk answer your burning questions and give their thoughts as to w...

Directors and officers of financially distressed companies often face complicated, high-pressure decisions in fulfilling their fiduciary duties. For years, practitioners, legal scholars a...

Following a recent line of high-profile and notable decisions that have sought to protect the rights of trademark licensees in a trademark licensor’s bankruptcy, the United States Bankr...

In a recent guest commentary in Traders Magazine, Annette Nazareth and Jeffrey Dinwoodie of Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group discuss some of the impacts and implications of an ...

  This second edition of The International Insolvency Review once again offers an in-depth review of market conditions and insolvency case developments in a  number of key countries. Buil...

A year ago we offered our regulatory predictions for 2014. We correctly predicted a busy year of financial reform implementation, as well as intensified discussions of the relationships a...