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One of the by-products of the ongoing global financial crisis is a re-emergence of a phenomenon that has not been widely seen since the bursting of the dot-com bubble nearly nine years ag...
Last week, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission separately filed complaints in federal district court seeking to unwind two different closed mergers which were not s...
The SEC recently adopted final rules that will require companies to provide financial statement information to the SEC in an interactive data format using eXtensible Business Reporting La...
The United States Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently adopted final rules that will require certain non-US companies to provide financial information to the SEC in an in...
Many companies are beginning preparations for their 2008 Form 10-K. While there are no new Form 10-K requirements this year, in light of the extraordinary financial market conditions whic...
The 2009 New York State budget proposed by Governor David Patterson yesterday contains a provision that would, effective January 1, 2009, impose New York tax on carried interest income al...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on Monday fined two investment funds, ESL Partners, L.P. (“ESL”) and ZAM Holdings, L.P. (“ZAM”), $525,000 and $275,000, respectively, for ...
RiskMetrics Group (“RMG”), the influential proxy advisory firm formerly known as ISS Governance Services, recently released its U.S. Corporate Governance Policy Update for 2009. The P...
The discounts at which portfolio company debt is currently trading have led an increasing number of private equity funds to consider purchasing this debt in the secondary market as an inv...
At a public meeting yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules designed to address perceived conflicts of interest in the credit rating industry, while deferrin...