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A couple of weeks ago, the Minnesota Legislature passed new tax legislation that, among other things, added a brand new Minnesota gift tax and expanded the applicability of the Minnesota estate tax. A summary of the entire...more
On June 13, 2013, without admitting or denying the allegations, eight former directors of five mutual funds agreed to settle SEC charges that they failed to satisfy their fair valuation responsibilities under federal...more
Like many other states, Connecticut has appointed itself as the official “lost and found” for all money abandoned within the state’s borders. We’re not talking about coins dropped on a sidewalk. Abandoned money can include...more
Allowing Canadian investors to participate in a global rights offering is easier than you think. There are two relatively simple approaches....more
Pre-financial crisis, interest rate derivatives were widely recognized as a valuable part of the municipal issuer’s financial toolkit. Post-crisis, they have been a thorn in the side of many issuers, resulting in expensive...more
Under new NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards that take effect on July 1, 2013, a compensation committee may receive advice from legal counsel, as well as compensation consultants and other advisors, only after considering six...more
Section 4043 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) requires pension plan sponsors to report a variety of corporate and plan events to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). In November...more
The third batch of subsidiary legislation for the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance was gazetted in May...more
The SEC recently released new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) on a variety of topics under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and Regulation S-K. A brief summary of some of these new CDIs is presented...more
In This Issue: - Conversation with a Community Banking Professional: Jillian Gibson - Future of Community Banking Symposium Highlights - Dodd-Frank Act Essentials: Corporate Governance Reforms -...more
In contrast to joint venture issues relating to upstream oil and gas development, the topic of shareholders' agreements for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) liquefaction projects has not been covered to a similar extent in...more
Topics we will cover: • Introduction • Issues with Control Groups • Issues with Prohibited Transactions • Fee Disclosure - Excerpt from Who is in the Control Group? • Aggregation Rules (Section...more
Baron de Montesquieu, explaining how best to avoid abuses by leaders, put it simply: “power must check power.” Although the principles of checks and balances have fostered stable governments for more than three hundred years,...more
As many of our readers are well aware, SEC reporting companies are required to maintain internal control over financial reporting to ensure accurate financial statements, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the internal...more
As discussed in our March 18, 2013 issue of Securities and Financial News to Note, on February 20, 2013, the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) filed with the SEC a proposed rule change to require that listed companies establish...more
In This Issue: - Single Charge for Investment Management Services Found Not Subject to New York Sales Tax. - Remote Vendor Not “Doing Business” in New York. - Nonresident Partner’s Loss from 2005...more
On the final argument day of the May term, the Illinois Supreme Court heard argument in Prazen v. Shoop, one of a brace of public employee pension cases currently on the Court's docket. ...more
On May 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a Maryland-based proxy adviser, with failure to safeguard its advisory clients’ confidential proxy voting information. ...more
With the 2013 Maryland General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 431, Maryland became the 16th state to enact new and revised standards and reporting requirements for insurers and their parents/affiliates that are part of an...more
If you think FINRA examiners are going too far with their document requests under the cover of Rule 8210, you should "escalate" your concerns up the regulator's chain of command, a FINRA official said at the organization's...more
My colleague, Nevin Harwood, often extols the importance of setting reasonable and appropriate expectations in life—in fact, as a fellow entreVIEW author, he even posted on the topic just over a couple of years ago, shortly...more
Louis Steinmetz signed a personal guaranty of a $350,000 loan made to an LLC. The LLC defaulted on the loan....more
1) Be familiar with current investment terms and conditions. “Standard” angel investment terms change from time to time. Know what’s current as a basis for negotiation....more
In this memorandum opinion, the Court of Chancery awarded the plaintiff substantial payments, pre-judgment interest and attorneys’ fees and costs. Plaintiffs, entities that managed and invested in a fund that owned...more
Arrangements allow EU securities regulators to supervise non-EU alternative fund managers and thereby allow such managers access to the EU. On 30 May, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that...more
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