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On January 11, 2021, the Supreme Court vacated the Second Circuit’s controversial decision in United States v. Blaszczak, which held that proof of a benefit to the tipper is not a requi...
Much of 2020 saw a decline in shareholder activist campaign levels, presumably as activists stood back while the world dealt with and responded to a global pandemic.But we suspected that ...
We’ve considered the options that a Biden administration may have to effect its environmental and climate change policies now that the Democrats will have control of Congress for the ne...
Concern about protecting “nascent” competition is a hot topic in the antitrust world. In particular, enforcement authorities and others are expressing heightened interest in acquisiti...
A recent SEC conditional no-action position (the “No-Action Statement”) has further opened the regulatory door to trading of digital asset securities (“DAS”), by allowing certain ...
This deck describes our view of the road ahead for financial regulatory reform under a Biden Presidency, and updates the deck we published shortly after the 2020 election to reflect the D...
The IRS has issued final regulations on the taxation of carried interest under Section 1061 of the tax code, which was added in the 2017 tax law and provides that capital gain allocated u...
On December 28, the NYSE proposed rules that would relax its current requirements to obtain shareholder approval prior to certain equity issuances. The proposal, if approved, would more c...
On 21 December 2020, the UK Financial Conduct Authority published a policy statement (PS 20/17) with regard to disclosures by listed companies in respect of climate-related risks and oppo...
Judge Rakoff’s Nine West decision allowed fiduciary duty claims to proceed against LBO seller directors and officers based on anticipated subsequent transactions by purchaserJudge Danie...