Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
Exploring Carried Interest in Upper Tier Private Equity Structures — PE Pathways
Upping Your Game: Episode 3 - Embedded Compliance: From Gatekeeper to Business Enabler
The Preferred Return Podcast | Balancing Act: Strategies for GPs and LPs in Today's Market
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast
The LathamTECH Podcast — Can RSUs Unlock Employee Equity?
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
Evolving Landscape of Secondary Transactions in Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
5 Key Takeaways | Debating Critical Issues Facing the Banking Industry
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Antitrust & Competition
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Public Policy
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: AI & Technology
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Sports
AdvisorEsq Podcast Series - Episode 11 - Planning Ahead: Creating a Smooth Transition
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity
Podcast - Rewriting the Narrative of Private Equity in Healthcare
False Claims Act Insights - Swamp Things: A Post-Election Look at DOJ’s False Claims Act Enforcement, Part II
This edition of the Private Company Report highlights critical developments and regulatory changes affecting private companies, including recent presidential actions, SEC guidance on Regulation D and amendments to the...more
Confession: writing this in May 2025, we cannot predict with confidence what the rest of 2025 will bring. The year has already seen four months of change and upheaval – political, regulatory, and economic. The new US...more
On October 5, 2023, Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, announced a new safe harbor policy for voluntary self-disclosures made in the mergers and acquisitions context. The safe harbor policy will apply Department-wide and...more
Establishing and Managing a Business in the UK”, authored by the attorneys of Pillsbury’s London office, is a concise and practical guide for foreign investors in the UK. The guide covers key concerns and topics such as...more
We are pleased to announce that Husch Blackwell has published its inaugural “Legal Insights for Manufacturing” report, which provides a look ahead to 2023 and explores the key trends and issues that will shape the coming year...more
The inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States has set in motion a number of significant policy changes. In this panel discussion, our U.S. legal and policy specialists shared their insights on what our...more
In today’s blog post, I want to look at some of the more unusual bribery schemes from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions in 2019. Some of these schemes were not unusual but they were accomplished with...more
One of the complaints still made about the Department of Justice (DOJ) is that companies are not made aware of the requirements of a best practices compliance program. ...more
Identifying Bribery and Corruption risk in the context of private equity investments (and M&A more generally) is key to ensuring the value of an acquisition. Companies will busy themselves with due diligence on tax,...more
The election of President Trump contained some positive signs for Private Equity (PE) fund managers. These included potential lower corporate taxes, a ten-percent tax holiday for funds parked overseas, large infrastructure...more
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
We begin the New Year with a three-part series on the FCPA: (1) A review of FCPA enforcement in 2016; (2) Trends from 2016 FCPA enforcement; and (3) Predictions for FCPA enforcement in 2017....more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its enforcement results for fiscal year 2016, reaching new highs in the number of actions filed and money ordered forfeited through disgorgement and penalties. The SEC...more
The Justice Department and the Securities Exchange Commission delivered a powerful FCPA enforcement message to private equity and hedge funds. Och-Ziff settled with the DOJ and SEC for total penalties of $412 million....more
The private equity industry is facing increased scrutiny by the U.S. Government for potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”). The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has created a new private...more
FCPA enforcement will likely take a turn into the private equity industry. I know this is a regular claim by FCPA practitioners but we already can see the beginning of the trend. The “princeling” investigations are...more
In light of the global nature of the private equity industry, minimizing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) risks is an important consideration for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. ...more
Recent comments by Andrew Bowden, Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), highlight the growing tension between Dodd-Frank compliance and fund...more
Sometimes predictions come true. Starting in 2011, the SEC sent shock waves through the private equity industry when it launched a general inquiry into private equity compliance with the FCPA....more
Financial institutions, investment banks, private equity firms and hedge funds are having a rough time. Things are just not going well for them. While the economic outlook is turning positive, the enforcement atmosphere is...more
Several years ago, the SEC sent shockwaves through the private equity and hedge fund industries. The SEC launched an industry investigation focused on the legal principle that foreign sovereign wealth funds were a part of...more
Lance Armstrong and the world of competitive cycling has come under great scrutiny in recent days with the domination of the U.S. Postal team now undermined by the systematic doping that appears to have helped spur the team...more
The story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” applies with full force to the securities industry and the FCPA. ...more
McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to offer “Distribution in China – Legal Issues*,” a one-stop resource covering distribution in China, including: The business models and legal structures most commonly used for...more
Until a few years ago, private equity firms enjoyed relative insulation from regulatory scrutiny of overseas acquisitions and the operations of multi-national portfolio companies. No longer is that the case. Spurred by the...more