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Financial Daily Dose 1.25.2021 | Top Story: Merck Abandons Covid Vaccine Effort Over Ineffective Results

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/25/2021

U.S. drug giant Merck is shuttering its coronavirus vaccine development “after early trial data showed [its pair of vaccines] failed to generate immune responses comparable to natural infection or existing vaccines.” ...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2020 | Top Story: November Hiring Well Below Expectations as Employment Recovery Stalls

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/7/2020

Friday’s jobs report was not only 200,000 jobs below projections for November, but it marked the fifth straight month of a diminished pace of hiring in the United States and brought urgency to facing the reality that there...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.26.2020 | Top Story: American Airlines to furlough 19,000 in coming months

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/26/2020

American Airlines is pushing forward with plans to furlough 19,000 workers this fall, even as the airline industry lobbies a stalemated Congress for another multi-billion dollar bailout. That figure, “when combined with the...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.06.2019 | Top Story: Aramco Prices Shares at High-end of Range That Would Value Company at $1.7 trillion

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/6/2019

Saudi Aramco has priced its offering at the high end of its range, setting the company up to raise more than $25 billion and value the company at nearly $1.7 trillion—all part of what promises to make this the world’s biggest...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.7.2019 | Top Story: Talks Between GM and UAW Falter as Strike Hits Fourth Week

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/7/2019

Talks between General Motors and the striking UAW broke down yesterday, threatening the progress the two sides “appeared to make in recent days,” a troubling sign as the strike heads into its 4th week....more

Financial Daily Dose 10.1.2019 | Top Story: Credit Suisse COO Resigns in Wake of Corporate Spying Scandal

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/1/2019

Top Tidjane Thiam ally Pierre-Olivier Bouee, Credit Suisse’s COO, has resigned in the wake of an internal probe finding that he “ordered the surveillance of the bank’s former wealth-management chief, Iqbal Khan, without...more

Financial Daily Dose 9.6.2019 | Top Story: A Preview of Today’s U.S. August Jobs Report

Robins Kaplan LLP on 9/6/2019

Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what to look for in the numbers – WSJ and Bloomberg and NYTimes The White House has rolled out its “long-awaited plan” to return federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 4/30/2019

Shared workspace giant We Work is joining the growing wave of major start-ups planning to go public this year. And like many of its unicorn peers (as we’ve documented), the company “shows no sign of turning a profit anytime...more

In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - April 2019 #2

WilmerHale on 4/22/2019

Some interesting links we found across the web this week: Why the Secret to Growth May be a ‘Velvet Rope’ Strategy - The “velvet rope mentality” (i.e. only working with the right, qualified clients and not over...more

The IRS’ Initial 162(m) Transition Guidance is Finally Here

Snell & Wilmer on 9/13/2018

On August 21, 2018, the IRS released Notice 2018-68 (“Notice”) providing its initial guidance on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“Act”) transition rule for changes made to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/17/2018

Yesterday, federal officials unveiled an ongoing EEOC investigation into whether Uber “discriminated against women in hiring and pay” that began last August. The news extends Uber’s streak of investigations and brutal PR well...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/20/2017

Barclays and a group of its former execs are facing charges of fraud by false representation by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office over deals they struck with Qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bailout....more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/27/2017

It may lack some of the flourish of a BBG missive, but you can be sure that plenty of insiders are paying close attention to Mr. Buffet’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders....more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.26.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 9/26/2016

The Deal Professor weighs in on Yahoo’s announcement last week of the hack of roughly 500 million of its customers’ data and the specter of the MAC (material adverse change) that Verizon may choose to invoke to dance away...more

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