It is back to the future. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell pledged last night to fight the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) by using the “full range of tools” available to support ...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is having enormous impact on all of us globally. We have been getting a broad array of questions about funding options and liquidity risk management. Our alert ...

Washington State and Colorado recently passed laws requiring merging parties to notify the state attorney general regarding certain transactions reportable under federal antitrust law.  T...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on February 25 that reduces certainty as to which member of a consolidated tax group is entitled to a federal tax refund.  In Rodriguez v. FDIC, t...

The SEC has historically imposed burdensome financial statement requirements on companies that issue debt that is either guaranteed by subsidiaries or secured. Because most high yield deb...

Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed broad changes to the current private offering framework. Recognizing the growing market for private investments, this is the lat...

U.S. and global stock markets have experienced a significant downturn and increased volatility stemming from the coronavirus (COVID-19), this weekend’s shock in the commodity markets an...

On January 30, 2020, the CFTC proposed a rule that largely codifies no-action relief the Commission previously issued related to the treatment of: (1) package transactions; (2) error trad...

Now is the season when many public companies are planning for and getting ready to finalize, print and mail a proxy statement for the annual meeting. What if, unfortunately, a company nee...

On February 26, a long-running legal battle over the scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) took another turn when a federal trial court judge ordered that former Alstom ...