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What are Fractional CFO Services?

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What are fractional CFO services? What types of organizations should consider fractional CFO services for their corporation or business? What are the advantages of contracting for fractional Chief Financial Officer services?...more

White & Case LLP

Land of the rising dissension: Japanese shareholder activism in focus

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A perfect storm of volatile market conditions and investor demands is brewing in Japan, fostering an environment ripe for increased shareholder activism in 2025 - Global shareholder activism surged in the first half of...more

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UK FDI Update: Key takeaways from the latest NSIA Annual Report

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The third Annual Report on the UK's National Security and Investment Act provides some valuable insights into the review process and how it continues to develop. We explore some of the key metrics and trends and what they...more

Locke Lord LLP

Revisions to Chapter 517, F.S., the Florida Securities and Investor Protection Act

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Overview On May 10, 2024, the Florida Governor approved Senate Bill 532 (“SB 532”), which passed the Florida House and Senate by nearly unanimous vote (1 vote against in the Senate). SB 532 substantially revises Chapter 517,...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: GI Partners Acquires eClinical Solutions

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GI Partners has made a majority investment in eClinical Solutions, according to a news release. eClinical, founded in 2012 and based in Mansfield, Massachusetts, is a global provider of digital clinical software and...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

As Election Looms, Headwinds Brewing for Private Equity Health Care Dealmaking

As this fall’s election approaches, headwinds have been brewing in DC and state legislatures for private equity health care dealmaking, many of them with bipartisan support. While a key Senate committee scrutinized patient...more

Mintz - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies...

MintzTech Connect: All Things Technology — September 2024

And just like that, the weather has changed, and now it is fall on the East Coast! Where did the days of summer go? As to the current state of the venture capital market, while later- and growth-stage companies are still...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Foreign Institutional Investors Await Italian Government Action on Corporate Governance Reforms

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On March 27, 2024, the Italian legislature enacted reforms to attract new investors to the Italian capital markets and improve corporate governance following guidelines issued by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s...more

Cooley LLP

SEC charges Zymergen for “unsupported hype” in its IPO

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The SEC has announced settled charges against Zymergen, which, prior to its recent bankruptcy and ultimate liquidation, was a biotech “focused on the manufacture of novel materials, including optical films used in electronic...more

Goodwin

How Do Fund Sponsors Resolve a Key Person Event?

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Upon the occurrence of a key person event, a suspension period is typically triggered, during which the fund is not able to make new investments. In a previous article, we analyzed the average length of the suspension period...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Investor Coalition for Equal Votes targets dual-class structures

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Recently, the Investor Coalition for Equal Votes (ICEV) has been sending letters to private companies requesting a meeting to discuss dual-class voting structures and their impact on corporate governance....more

Jones Day

2024 Mexican Constitutional Reform Bill: Proposed Changes for Foreign Investors in the Electricity Sector

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On February 5, 2024, President López Obrador sent the Reform Initiative to the Chamber of Deputies. This, in turn, was submitted to the United Commission of Constitutional and Energy Matters for review....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC charges company for defrauding customers for $6M via false IPO

On August 26, the SEC filed a complaint and demand for a jury trial against a South Dakota corporation, its China-based investment adviser, and their CEO for allegedly defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

H1 Fundraising Review

Overall, the first half of 2024 was challenging for fundraising across the private fund market to varying degrees among private debt, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC). The first half of 2024 saw a variety of...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Heritage Invests in Equiti

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Heritage Group has announced an investment in Equiti Health. Equiti, founded in 2004 and based in Sunrise, Florida, is a provider of healthcare-focused language interpretation services....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

No Rest for the Weary: Three Trends to Watch in Shareholder Activism This Fall

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Fall is fast approaching, so most major US public companies have held their 2024 annual meetings. But, while temperatures are sure to cool in the coming months, the same can no longer be said for the shareholder activism...more

White & Case LLP

Data: The hottest non-commodity in the mining & metals sector?

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There is a tendency to think of data as generic, especially when it is vast, but the uniqueness of mineral data makes it the ultimate non-commodity, primed to take advantage of AI....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Recyclable K-Cups: Investors Beware?

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On September 10, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission or SEC) charged Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (Keurig) for making inaccurate statements about the recyclability of its K-Cup single-use beverage pods.  Without...more

World Law Group

Doing Business in Illinois - USA

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In World Law Group's Doing Business In Guide, member firms around the globe share how to successfully do business in their countries, key investment sectors, and what business opportunities are hot in the market right now. In...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Finalizes Amendments to Rule 4.7

On September 12, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalized the first major changes to CFTC Regulation 4.7 (Rule 4.7) in over 30 years. Among other technical revisions, the amendments to Rule 4.7,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 205

Formo, a fermentation startup, announced that it raised $61 million in its Series B round. Keurig Dr Pepper announced that it has signed a distribution deal to sell Black Rifle Coffee's new ready-to-drink energy drinks....more

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

Cancelled in March 2024: Requirements for UK High Net Worth and Self-Certified Investors Changing From 31 January 2024

This post is an update of a previous post. On 27 March 2024, government legislation (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Order 2024 (SI 2024/301), the “March...more

Cornerstone Research

Considerations for Blow Provisions in Securities Class Action Settlements

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Securities class action settlements often include what is commonly referred to as a “blow provision”—a provision designed to give defendants the option to terminate the settlement agreement if a specified threshold of...more

Goodwin

Stretching and Flexing - Part 1 Addressing Longer Hold Periods

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Patience is proving to be a virtue for a private equity industry that began 2024 sitting on more than 28,000 portfolio companies valued at more than $3 trillion, according to a report by Bain & Company, as average hold...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Webinar] Trends in Global ESG Regulations and Their Impact on Corporate Reporting - September 18th, 12:00 pm CT

Target Audience - Compliance Professionals with detailed knowledge in an area. Such persons are often at a mid-level within the organization, with operational or supervisory responsibilities, or both....more

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