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Parting Advice: Judge Drain Rules That Dividends Paid From the Proceeds of Safe-Harbored Transactions Are Not Safe-Harbored in In...

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In his final opinion, Judge Robert D. Drain of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held that dividends paid from proceeds of safe-harbored transactions under section 546(e) of the...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: October 2021

Federal and State Financial Regulators Publish New Guidance on LIBOR Transition - The federal banking agencies, the NCUA and the CFPB, in conjunction with the state bank and state credit union regulators, have issued joint...more

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PPP Extended; CFPB Revokes Pandemic-Related Regulatory Relief

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In This Issue. President Biden signed a bill extending the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through May 31, 2021; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the rescission...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

BSIF et COVID-19 : mise à jour des directives relatives à la restriction sur l’augmentation des dividendes

Le 11 juin 2020, le Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (le « BSIF ») a mis à jour sa FAQ relative à la COVID-19 afin d’aborder la restriction sur l’augmentation des dividendes applicable aux institutions de...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

OSFI Updates Its COVID-19 Guidance on Dividend Increase Restriction

On June 11, 2020, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) updated its COVID-19 FAQs to address the dividend increase restriction applicable to federally regulated deposit-taking institutions and...more

A&O Shearman

COVID-19: European Central Bank Recommends Suspension of Dividends by Large Eurozone Banks

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The European Central Bank has published an updated Recommendation requiring the largest Eurozone-based banks to suspend the payment of any dividends and buyback of shares until at least October 1, 2020. The Recommendation is...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

English Court Provides Guidance on Director Liability for Dividends - The High Court decision in Burnden Holdings clarifies the...

A recent decision of the High Court of Justice in England & Wales in Re Burnden Holdings (UK) Limited (in liquidation) [2019] EWHC 1566 (Ch) (“Burnden Holdings”) provides a thorough review of English dividends law, including...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

NYSE Proposes to Revise Notifications Prior to Dividend Announcements

The NYSE has filed a proposed rule with the SEC which will require listed companies to provide notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before making any public announcement with respect to a dividend or stock distribution...more

Hogan Lovells

Italy passes new rules for carried interest

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The Italian Government has at last put an end to the controversy around the characterisation of 'carried interest' for tax treatment purposes. By Law Decree no. 50 of 24 April 2017, which is to be brought into law by 23 June...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Derivatives In Review - January 2017

Regulation AT – An Update - From the time Regulation AT was initially proposed by the CFTC over a year ago, the CFTC has solicited and considered numerous comment letters, held a public roundtable, supplemented the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Fed Revisits CCAR and Proposes CCAR Relief for Large Noncomplex Firms

One of the notable financial regulatory tools that resulted from the post-financial crisis prudential regulations is stress testing. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) has the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Proposed QI Agreement Addresses Cascading Withholding on Dividend Equivalents

On July 1, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2016-42, which proposes changes to the qualified intermediary (QI) agreement to address cascading U.S. withholding tax on dividends and “dividend equivalents”...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news The Brief – 5.10.16

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Big news out of the online lending space, as Lending Club’s chair and CEO—Renaud Laplanche—has resigned after an internal review “showed a violation of the company’s business practices” related to sales of $22 million in...more

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German Cum/Ex-Trades: Enhanced Risks and Industry-Wide Challenges

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The German and international financial industries and their advisors have come under new pressure to investigate so-called 'cum/ex' trades conducted between 2000 and 2012. For many years, tax authorities and criminal...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FY2017 Budget Proposal Sets Its Sights on Insurance Companies

On February 9, the Obama Administration released its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal (FY2017 Budget). Many of the tax proposals included in the FY2017 Budget closely follow those included in the President’s fiscal year 2016...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Reflections on the Hitachi FCPA Enforcement Action

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced resolution of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Hitachi Ltd (Hitachi). There were several interesting aspects to...more

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