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AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Episode 12: A General Counsel’s Map for International Business Expansion - Part 2
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business - Episode 12: A General Counsel’s Map for International Business Expansion - Part 1
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Webinar: Corporate Transparency Act
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Meeting Cancer Reporting Requirements
DE Under 3: Potential Elimination of EEO-1 Type 4 & 8 Reports
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CFPB's Section 1071 Final Rule (Part 2): Deep Dive on Data Collection and Discouragement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
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On 24 January 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), by a 3-to-2 vote, adopted the long-awaited final rules regarding special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), shell companies, and projections. The final...more
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On October 30, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced that it filed charges against SolarWinds Corp. ("SolarWinds" or the "Company") and its Chief Information Security Officer ("CISO") in connection...more
On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The adopting release...more
As part of our five year anniversary celebrations of our law firm opening in Bermuda, we put together the original version of this summary report highlighting the latest developments and trends in the Bermuda legal and...more
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 5, 2012 and aimed to improve access to public capital markets for emerging growth companies. While largely considered a...more
In 2013, Delaware passed legislation adopting a new corporate form, the public benefit corporation (PBC), with a view to allowing directors of for-profit corporations to take actions not just in pursuit of stockholder...more
There has been a lot of publicity and interest surrounding the direct listings of Spotify (2018) and Slack (2019) in the United States. In many respects, these transactions resemble the traditional "introduction" which has...more
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The NYSE proposed in November changes to its listing standards to allow “primary” share offerings through a direct listing. To date, direct listings have been in the form of stockholder share resales (a “secondary offering”)...more
Entrepreneurs with visions of taking their company public one day may look forward to announcing their IPO by ringing the bell at the stock exchange on Wall Street and celebrating at an extravagant closing dinner with the...more
This white paper discusses considerations related to conducting a token offering under Regulation A under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”). The benefit of this strategy is that it can allow broad...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Proposes to Ease Restrictions on Initial Equity Public Offerings and New Issues - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is proposing to amend its Rule 5130 and Rule 5131 to ease ...more
While monitoring SEC comment letters, we recently came across the batch of SEC comment letters issued to Uber Technologies, Inc. in connection with its IPO registration statement that was declared effective on May 9, 2019. ...more
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Since the Enron debacle, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has paid a lot of attention to the types of entities that were used by Enron to avoid its financial reporting obligations. The FASB released Accounting...more
On May 24, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) was signed into law. One of the purposes of the Act is to encourage capital formation by directing the Securities and Exchange...more
Buried in new legislation mainly intended to ease Dodd-Frank restrictions on small banks is an expansion of Regulation A eligibility to include SEC reporting companies. ...more
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155), which is primarily aimed at easing regulations on community banks, also contains provisions designed to facilitate capital formation. President...more
On April 27, 2018, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nasdaq, along with certain technology and biotechnology groups, released a policy paper titled “Expanding...more
First Spotify changed the music industry. Now it might change the way we think about public offerings. On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, Spotify filed its prospectus to go public through a direct listing on the New York...more
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Tesla’s hoping that a manufacturing plant in China—the first in the country wholly owned by a foreign manufacturing company—will translate into big sales in the Chinese market. With the Chinese government loath to give up the...more