Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin... April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Proposes Overhaul of Intercompany Debt Rules The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) on April 4, 2016 released propos... April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p... March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve... March 17, 2016 Client Update Can Falling Interest Rates Increase a Company’s Financing Costs? Companies will often enter into interest rate swap agreements in order to hedge their exposure to interest rate risk stemm... March 10, 2016 Client Update New Register of ‘People with Significant Control’ over UK Companies – One Month to Implementation As part of the UK Government’s drive to improve business transparency, from 6 April 2016 onwards, a new Part 21A of the ... February 25, 2016 Client Update UK Takeover Panel Consultation on Communication and Distribution of Information During an Offer On 15 February 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on its proposed amendments to the Takeover Code ... January 21, 2016 Client Update Revised 2016 Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and For the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thre... January 11, 2016 Client Update Will Anti-Reliance Provisions Preclude Extra-Contractual Fraud Claims? Answers Differ in Delaware, New York, and California Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representatio... November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co... Load More
April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Issues New Anti-Inversion Guidance On April 4, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) issued (i) fin...
April 11, 2016 Client Update Treasury Proposes Overhaul of Intercompany Debt Rules The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department (“Treasury”) on April 4, 2016 released propos...
April 5, 2016 Client Update Does the ValueAct Lawsuit Have Implications for Institutional Shareholders and the Larger Shareholder Activism and Engagement Landscape? Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice brought a civil action against ValueAct for failing to comply with the waiting p...
March 28, 2016 Client Update Gender Diversity Firestorm Symptomatic of Greater Scrutiny of Shareholder Activists During the past week, there have been a number of news reports regarding Bloomberg’s analysis that since 2011, only seve...
March 17, 2016 Client Update Can Falling Interest Rates Increase a Company’s Financing Costs? Companies will often enter into interest rate swap agreements in order to hedge their exposure to interest rate risk stemm...
March 10, 2016 Client Update New Register of ‘People with Significant Control’ over UK Companies – One Month to Implementation As part of the UK Government’s drive to improve business transparency, from 6 April 2016 onwards, a new Part 21A of the ...
February 25, 2016 Client Update UK Takeover Panel Consultation on Communication and Distribution of Information During an Offer On 15 February 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on its proposed amendments to the Takeover Code ...
January 21, 2016 Client Update Revised 2016 Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and For the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thre...
January 11, 2016 Client Update Will Anti-Reliance Provisions Preclude Extra-Contractual Fraud Claims? Answers Differ in Delaware, New York, and California Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representatio...
November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co...