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A proposed rule issued under Section 956 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act would subject financial institutions with $1 billion of assets to substantive and...
On February 16, 2011 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Delaware bankruptcy court’s 2009 ruling that “commercially reasonable determinants of value” for purposes of measu...
In a much-anticipated decision issued last night in Air Products v. Airgas, Chancellor Chandler declined to compel the board of directors of Airgas, Inc. to redeem the Company’s poison ...
On the eve of the shareholder vote to approve the $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of Del Monte Foods, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery last night issued a pre...
On January 26, 2011, the SEC and the CFTC (the “Commissions”) jointly released proposed new rules under the Commodity Exchange Act and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advi...
The final regulations implement the conformance period during which banking entities must bring their activities, investments and relationships into compliance with the prohibitions and r...
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...