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Guiding Captives Through Global Developments

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Bermuda formed the first modern captive in 1962 and remains the leading offshore captive domicile, with approximately 700 licenced captives on its register. Bermuda’s captive industry has remained resilient in the face of...more

Dechert LLP

Sweeping Law for DEI Transparency of Private Funds with a California Nexus

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California continues its initiatives to increase workplace diversity through a new law that will require certain funds with a nexus to California to report DEI information about the founding teams of their portfolio...more

Ankura

Connecting the Pieces and Filling the Gaps

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“The market is missing things, and we are not at our true value” is a common refrain we hear from company executives, both public and private equity-backed. Investors may not fully understand a small, but growing part of the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Introducing a ‘SOX-Lite’ Regime in the UK: Learning From Experience in the US

Nearly two decades after the enactment of SOX, which was precipitated by several high-profile corporate and accounting scandals in the US during the late 1990s and early 2000s, UK and European regulators are grappling with a...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Injecting Transparency & Competition into Equity Markets

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The Commission’s rule writing calendar may be about to have a meltdown. The agency is considering a number of significant rule writing-proposals covering important areas. A number of those proposals are controversial,...more

Morgan Lewis

New German Financial Law Expands Reporting Obligations for German Entities

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The recent reform of the German transparency register affects almost all companies in Germany and greatly expands the reporting obligations for German entities. The Transparency Register and Financial Information Act...more

Hogan Lovells

Beyond Brexit transition - changes for listed companies

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The Brexit transition period ended at 11:00 pm on 31 December 2020 and at the end of this transition period, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 converted existing EU legislation which had direct effect in the UK into UK...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

U.S. President’s Working Group Proposes Tougher Listing Rules for Chinese Companies

In response to U.S. President Trump’s June 4 Memorandum calling for “firm, orderly action to end the Chinese practice of flouting American transparency requirements without negatively affecting American investors and...more

Hogan Lovells

Which Market? Equity Capital Markets: (UPDATED)

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Guide to the eligibility requirements and continuing obligations of admitting securities to the UK's key equity capital markets. The UK has always been a popular destination for UK and overseas companies who are looking to...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2020 Insights

Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 1.21.2020 | Top Story: World Economic Forum Kicks Off in Davos

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As it kicked off its 50th annual gathering today, the World Economic Forum in Davos is facing some hard questions—both about the state of the ideals it has long espoused (“open borders, liberal democracy and free borders,” to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Recent Private Equity and Other Alternative Asset Investment Developments and Investor Concerns Reflected in New ILPA Principles...

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ILPA Updates Its Best Practices Guidance in “Principles 3.0.” Responding to private equity and other alternative asset investment trends and new issues, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) recently released...more

Troutman Pepper

To IPO, Or Not to IPO, That Is the Question - How to prepare for and execute a successful public offering

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More than ever, life sciences companies are going public to raise capital for future growth. In fact, U.S. equity financing in life sciences skyrocketed to a record $7 billion in 2018—a 69 percent jump over the year before. ...more

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Market Participants to Their Corners: Competing Views on Market Data Are on Full Display at the SEC’s Market Data Roundtable

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has solicited the views of exchanges, broker-dealers and investors on a range of questions related to market data since at least 1999 when it published SEC Concept Release: Regulation of...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Jobs Act 3.0

This statement from Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Financial Services, confirms the House continues to work on JOBS Act 3.0. ...more

Jones Day

New German Money Laundering Act Establishes Additional Transparency Requirements for Certain Listed Companies, European Capital...

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On 25 June 2017, the new German Money Laundering Act came into force, which primarily implements the 4th European Anti-Money-Laundering Directive (EU 2015/849) into German law. Among others, the Act establishes a new...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Germany capital market and corporate law update: The new Transparency Register is online – what you need to know

The revised Anti-Money Laundering Law (law on tracing profits from serious criminal activities (Geldwäschegesetz – GwG)) will provide for the introduction of an electronic transparency register as of October 1, 2017. There,...more

Dechert LLP

Sensible Approach on STS Securitisation and EU Risk Retention Likely to Help EU Securitisations and the Real Economy

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At the 7th trilogue meeting held in Strasbourg on 30 May 2017 among representatives of the European Parliament, Council of Ministers and Commission, agreement was reached in principle on an EU regulatory framework for simple,...more

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Amendments to the German Corporate Governance Code for 2017 Published and In Force

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On 24 April 2017, the Corporate Governance Committee established by the German Federal Government (Regierungskommission Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex) officially published various amendments to the German Corporate...more

Hogan Lovells

French Legal and Regulatory Update – March 2017

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for March 2017. ...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.15.16

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The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation—a nonprofit that represents execs from many of the US’s largest banks—will release a paper today arguing that the Fed illegally sidestepped the APA by adopting “central parts of its...more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

FMLC Publishes Letter to European Commission on Reporting and Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions

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On February 10, the UK Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) published a letter to the Director-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union of the European Commission. The letter discusses...more

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation

Commissioner Piwowar Slams “Dodd-Frank Politburo” for Overstepping Authority

In a speech on July 15, 2014, SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar expressed his views about the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) operating in secrecy as it tries to expand its regulation of financial institutions...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Montage IPO – Are The U.S. Markets Re-Opening To Chinese Companies?

The U.S. capital markets—the largest in the world—have been all but closed to Chinese companies for more than two years. The successful IPO of Montage Technology, and e-commerce giant Alibaba’s announcement that it will seek...more

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