The year 2023 will be remembered as a challenging one for private equity (PE), with complexities to navigate on many fronts. Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to...more
3/12/2024
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Carbon Capture and Sequestration ,
CFIUS ,
China ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Divestiture ,
Domestic Dealmaking ,
Drug Pricing ,
Energy Sector ,
Foreign Direct Investment ,
Foreign Investment ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Healthcare ,
Investment ,
Life Sciences ,
Liquidity ,
Mergers ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms ,
Renewable Energy ,
Reporting Requirements ,
UK ,
Unions ,
Venture Capital
Key Points -
The proposed power would allow the UK Government to block initial equity listings and admissions on UK public markets on the grounds of national security.
The listing of debt securities (other than...more
Further to the Chancellor’s announcement on April 3, 2020, of the introduction of the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), the CLBILS that is aimed at larger U.K. businesses is now live and the...more
On April 3, 2020, the Chancellor announced the introduction of the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) to be made available to UK businesses with an annual turnover of between £45 million and £500...more
Rishi Sunak, the U.K. Chancellor, has announced an “unprecedented package of government-backed and guaranteed loans to support businesses” to get through the COVID-19 shock.
The main components of the U.K. rescue package...more
Multinational corporations operating in the United States and abroad encounter complex and dispositive legal frameworks that govern not only substantive rights, but also procedural rules that dictate who may assert such...more
6/7/2019
/ Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Collective Actions ,
Contract Disputes ,
Corporate Counsel ,
EU ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
FRCP 23 ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
Injunctions ,
Member State ,
Negligence ,
Notice Requirements ,
Putative Class Actions
• A U.S.-style class action regime looms large in the European Union.
• The current draft legislation imports certain hallmarks of the system celebrated by U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers, but there is uncertainty over what...more
6/5/2019
/ Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Collective Actions ,
Collective Redress ,
EU ,
European Parliament ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
FRCP 23 ,
Frivolous Lawsuits ,
Injunctions ,
Member State ,
Multinationals ,
Proposed Legislation
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff made official statements regarding when a token may or may no longer be a security
• The SEC continued to bring actions related to cryptocurrency offerings against...more
9/24/2018
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Banking Sector ,
Bitcoin ,
Broker-Dealer ,
CFTC ,
Commodities ,
Counter-Terrorist ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Customer Due Diligence (CDD) ,
Digital Currency ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Exchange-Traded Products ,
FATF ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinTech ,
Income Taxes ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Company Act of 1940 ,
IRS ,
Jurisdiction ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
National Futures Association ,
Popular ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Token Sales ,
Trading Platforms ,
U.S. Treasury ,
Unregistered Securities ,
Virtual Currency ,
Websites
On Thursday, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director of Corporate Finance William Hinman provided some long-desired clarity on the SEC’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation, announcing during Yahoo Finance’s...more
6/18/2018
/ Bitcoin ,
CFTC ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Currency ,
Ether ,
Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) ,
Investors ,
New Guidance ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Transactions ,
Token Sales
If you read one thing...
- U.K. corporates required to identify and record identities (including home addresses) of 25%+ holders of economics/votes/control (“PSCs”) – exclusion for most U.K. listed issuers.
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