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On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”) into law. The TCJA adds a new Section 83(i) to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which allows elig...
The Federal Reserve’s proposed core principles on management of large financial institutions are another welcome addition to its efforts to clarify and better distinguish between the ro...
The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in two Response Statements to its public consultations in the second half of 2017.
On 11 Decemb...
Our TCJA Navigator makes it easy to locate particular provisions in the text of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most significant tax legislation to be enacted since the Tax Reform Act of 1...
On December 25, 2017, the Government of Shenzhen, China announced that the previous Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (“SCIA”) and Shenzhen Arbitration Commission will be co...
The SEC has agreed with a company that it can exclude a shareholder proposal that asks the board to amend its existing bylaw to lower the ownership threshold from 25% to 10% of the compan...
The Financial Stability Board, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and International Organization of Securities Commissions announced ...
The SEC Staff decided that a no-action letter by Apple citing the recently issued SLB 14I was not excludable based on the information presented. The Staff noted that “We are unable to c...
Rules and Regulations
CFTC Proposes to Clarify the Treatment of Leveraged, Margined, or Financed Retail Virtual Currency Transactions
Industry Update
SEC Announces Updates to Form N...
The U.S. banking agencies recently issued final rules that will require U.S. G-SIBs and certain foreign G-SIBs to amend their swap contracts, repurchase agreements and other qualified fin...