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On February 11, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida quashed a 2009 Bankruptcy Court decision that had ordered certain lenders of Florida-based homebuilder T...
In response to requirements in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC issued proposed rules today that would revise the Form S-3 and Form F-3 transaction e...
On February 8, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment setting forth suggested definiti...
On January 25, 2011, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted final rules implementing the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that require U.S. public companies to conduct separate shareholder adviso...
In a January 2010 memorandum titled “Acquisition Financing in 2010 - Trends from 2009”, we considered the state of acquisition finance in 2009 and drew some tentative conclusions abou...
In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capital, we have received numerous client inquiries regarding the diffe...
The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohibition pre...
Although there are no changes to Form 20-F itself this year, the economic and financial crisis has resulted in significant U.S. regulatory actions, which will affect all companies prepari...
On January 21, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission released its much anticipated staff study on the effectiveness of the standards of care required of broker-dealers and investme...