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Event in Review: Private Equity Investment in Healthcare

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Investment in the healthcare industry requires careful consideration, as it involves numerous distinct areas of the law. Venable's Private Equity Investment in Healthcare webinar series explores the unique issues and timely...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Navigating the Rise of UK Class Actions Implications for Private Equity

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As collective redress actions rise, sponsor and corporate statements are under high scrutiny, with an industry developing to take advantage....more

King & Spalding

Senators Introduce New Bill for Transparency and Oversight in Health Care Transactions and Investment

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On April 3, 2024, Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) released draft legislation titled the “Health Over Wealth Act” (the Proposed Bill). This Proposed Bill is another attempt to regulate private...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Retaining the Team: How to Mitigate Your Number One Risk in a Tech M&A Deal

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After M&A dealmaking cranked at an all-time high in 2021 with a record breaking 60,000 publicly disclosed deals aggregating over $5 trillion (see our recent article), the waters of M&A cooled considerably in 2022, with only...more

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ESG in M&A Transactions - Present and Future

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The ESG sector has grown at a phenomenal rate over the last 5 years. It has doubled in size over that period and now a quarter of all investible assets globally are being managed with some type of environmental, social or...more

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National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer Meeting Summary

The Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory team of lawyers recently attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer National Meeting which was held in Portland, Oregon on August 9-13th. We have...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

ESG's Impact on M&A

Environment, social and governance (ESG) or “sustainability” factors are criteria that are used to measure a company in a way that is not typically included in the company’s financial statements. For example, ESG can include...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Event] 2022 Physician Practice Management & ASC Symposium - March 31st - April 1st, Nashville, TN

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Join us in person in Nashville for the Physician Practice Management and ASC Symposium! You don’t want to miss this exclusive conference addressing the critical business, transactional and regulatory issues impacting the...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Healthcare Headlines: Episode 8 – Healthcare Lending Deal Landscape Trends and Forecasts for the Future

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Episode eight of McGuireWoods’ video series “Healthcare Headlines” is now available. Hosted by McGuireWoods partner Amber McGraw Walsh, a member of the firm’s nationally recognized Healthcare Department, this episode welcomes...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Climate-Related Financial Risk: (Net) Zeroing in on Key Private Equity Considerations under the Biden Administration’s Executive...

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On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk, which outlines various initiatives to promote policies related to physical and transition risks associated with climate change and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Nota Bene Episode 106: The Corporate Investor Movement Toward Environmental, Social, and Governmental Policies with Allison...

Company investors and consequently, corporate boards, are acknowledging the importance of implementing good environmental, social, and governmental (“ESG”) policies to help mitigate risk, attract quality leadership, and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] COVID 19 Ransomware in Private Equity - Threats and Mitigation - July 1st, 4:00 pm BST

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McDermott Will & Emery, in partnership with Alvarez & Marsal is hosting a tailored webinar, discussing the cyber security threats and mitigations facing private equity firms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the...more

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Hedging Future Risk in Light of Increasing Uncertainty in the Health Care Industry: Critical Consideration #2

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A private equity (PE) transaction can help physicians “hedge” the uncertain future of private medical practices in an ever-changing and regulated industry. Uncertainty in the industry includes changing reimbursement...more

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COVID-19 – Contingency Planning Checklist for Private Equity Portfolio Companies

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Following the wider outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world, radical—and sometimes controversial—actions have been and are further expected to be taken by national, federal and local governments and...more

BCLP

What PE Firms Need to Know about Whistleblower Risk & How to Mitigate It

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Private Equity firms face risk from whistleblowers within their portfolio companies. There are some industries that are more susceptible to whistleblower risk, such as health care, telecom and military contracts....more

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What PE Firms Need to Know about their False Claims Act Risk

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Private equity firms have recently become targets of False Claims Act (FCA) liability. This new risk exposure comes from portfolio companies that do business with the government, which necessarily exposes those portfolio...more

Troutman Pepper

Family Offices and PE: Can't We All Get Along

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Family office managers and private equity general partners have many common interests. Chief among them is providing maximum returns for their employees and their investors. How family offices and private equity funds...more

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Structuring Secondary Sales to Maximize Capital Gains – A Primer for Private Companies

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As private companies seek to stay private longer, many try to offer interim liquidity opportunities to their employees. These opportunities include secondary sales, where employees sell their common shares to investors, often...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Big-Ticket Fines and Veil-Piercing Cases Raise Portfolio Company Liability Risks for PE Parents

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How can private equity firms identify and mitigate inherited liability risk from vulnerable portfolio companies? Ongoing big ticket regulatory fines coupled with high profile corporate veil cases indicate that private...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Spring/Summer 2019 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance (Traps for Portfolio...

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A recent decision by the Superior Court of the State of Delaware highlights a risk of potential exposure to liability for individuals affiliated with private equity firms who are presumed to be covered by a directors’ and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Proactive Due Diligence Considerations for Life Sciences Dealmakers

In today’s competitive and fast-paced life sciences dealmaking environment, buyers and investors are often unable to spend as much time on due diligence as they might like. Market players are often highly focused on the...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter 2019 Edition: U.S. Carve-Out Transactions: A Fertile Ground for Private Equity Firms

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Driven by the influence of shareholders, activists and competitive market forces, public companies are demonstrating renewed focus on their core businesses. Reductions in the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% have...more

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Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2017 Edition: The Dangers of Undefined Fraud Carve-Outs and “Inelegant Drafting”

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Crucial to any private equity seller is certainty: the certainty that a sale will be consummated at an agreed price and that any potential post-closing liability is fully understood in advance of distributing proceeds to...more

The Volkov Law Group

Compliance and Private Equity: An Oxymoron?

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We all enjoy an oxymoron, e.g., army intelligence, compassionate conservative. Some words go together and some do not. When it comes to compliance and private equity companies, you can predict with usual success that private...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Private Equity and the New Trump Administration: Your Top Ten Questions Answered

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The election of President Trump contained more than a few positive signs for Private Equity (PE) firms. Promises of a lower corporate tax environment, a ten-percent tax holiday for funds parked overseas, large infrastructure...more

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