Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

The original four added Venezuela in 2012 only to suspend it in 2016 for violating political standards; Bolivia rose to full membership last year. Touted as the emerging EU of the South when it was founded in 1991, Mercosur has yet to evolve beyond an imperfect customs union.

Start-ups 125

Start-ups Marketability Banking Finance 125

Global Finance

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Laziz Kudratov : The changes that started in 2016 continue. Global Finance : Tell us about Uzbekistan’s transformation over the past eight years and what else you are looking to accomplish. We have seen GDP rise by 6% in 2023 and 6.4% in the first half of 2024.

Start-ups 116

Start-ups Finance Dividends Marketability 116

Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things. Their initial response was to increase their human intervention in 2008: They changed their inventory valuation assumption, their revenue recognition assumptions, and a few other things.

Start-ups 112

Start-ups Finance EBIT Corporate Finance 112

Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

billion, reducing it to 2016 levels. Close observers blame the company for skipping evaluations, rushing production and not exploring deepwater regions or unconventional deposits. The companys total debt fell to $97.3 We have to fix Pemex, Sheinbaum said at a press conference.

Finance 109

Finance 109

Global Finance

JUNE 3, 2025

” The CBK is expected to guide the consolidation process, as it did during the 2015-2016 banking crisis, which saw the collapse of Imperial Bank and Chase Bank. . “We are actively exploring strategic partnerships to meet the new capital requirements,” said an executive from an affected bank.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Marketability Technology 52

Global Finance

MARCH 1, 2025

The 2016 Fort McMurray fire in Alberta, Canada, changed that attitude within the insurance industry: The fire caused $3 billion in losses, which at that time was considered enormous. But the increased frequency of natural disasters is emphasizing the need for faster procedures.

Finance 52

Finance Marketability 52

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

In 2016, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushed PIF to flex its financial might globally, including in the sports world. The groundwork for todays skyscraper-scale outlays was laid in 2013-2017, however.

Marketability 96

Marketability Start-ups Finance Banking 96

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Thryv was formed in a 2017 merger between Dex Media, a Yellow Pages publisher that restructured its debt in 2016, and YP Holdings, another Yellow Pages publisher. Now, were at another pivotal point, transitioning fully from a Yellow Pages marketing business to a software company. These are two entirely different businesses.

Capital Structure 98

Capital Structure Finance Start-ups Equity 98

Global Finance

MARCH 18, 2025

Ten-year government bond interest rates were below 2%, and then they went negative in 2016. They had been extremely low for at least the last 25 years, even before the financial crisis.

Start-ups 114

Start-ups Finance Capital Structure Marketability 114

ThomsonReuters

JUNE 23, 2025

A 2016 report from the Treasury Department’s Office of Economic Policy outlined similar reasons for employers using noncompetes — especially in knowledge-intensive industries — including: protection of trade secrets, strategic leverage, and deterrence of competition.

Compliance 85

Compliance Treasury 85

Accountancy Today

JUNE 2, 2025

Since its launch in 2016, the business has attracted significant backing, allowing it to invest more than $40m (29.5m) in building its technology platform.

Corporate Finance 40

Corporate Finance Finance Capital Structure Banking 40

Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Financial Times reported that asset manager GQG, founded in 2016 by billionaire Rajiv Jain, told BBVA’s management that the chase wasn’t worth it, and that Banco Sabadell would water down BBVA’s focus on emerging markets. BBVA, undeterred, took its offer straight to Banco Sabadell’s shareholders, going full “hostile takeover” mode.

Banking 59

Banking Marketability Finance 59

Business Wire M&A

JUNE 9, 2025

Founded in 2016, SunRoof has emerged as a leading renewable energy provider for comme The Fund acquired a controlling stake in SunRoof, a Latin American renewable energy platform with operations in Mexico and Chile.

Private Equity Firm 74

Private Equity Firm Equity 74

Benzinga

JUNE 23, 2025

Built in 2016, the six-storey Class A property offers attractive amenities, including excellent health & fitness facilities, a movie theatre, multiple dining rooms and an outdoor terrace.

Marketability 40

Marketability 40

Global Finance

JULY 16, 2025

Improved regulatory guidance from the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic and the Superintendencia of Banks, including the Innovation Law of 2016 and a focus on financial inclusion, has invigorated the fintech sector, says José Alberto Adam Adam, country manager with Equifax Dominican Republic.

Banking 52

Banking Start-ups Finance Technology 52

Global Finance

MARCH 6, 2025

Security risk: Proximity to Russia; ongoing Ukrainian conflict destabilizing to Latvias national security and economic growth; petty crime; credit card, debit card, and ATM fraud; cyberattacks and extortion; harassment of women, LGBTQI+ persons, and racialized groups Pros Highly digitalized, tax progressive, modernizing, globalizing Baltic state within (..)

Banking 82

Banking Finance Dividends Marketability 82

Law 360 M&A

JUNE 17, 2025

shareholders allegedly shorted in a 2016 merger. Pointing in part to an earlier appellate ruling, Delaware's highest court on Tuesday reversed a Court of Chancery decision that ordered the former TransCanada Corp. to pay $199 million to former Columbia Pipeline Group Inc.

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Benzinga

JUNE 30, 2025

ReFuel, founded in 2016 and based in Ontario, Canada, specializes in direct-to-vehicle and direct-to-equipment fuel delivery, serving commercial and industrial clients across transportation, construction, logistics, telecom, municipalities, dealerships, and industrial fleet sectors.

Marketability 40

Marketability Technology 40

Global Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

Since 2016, Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet has been the CFO of OSE Immunotherapeutics, a biotech dedicated to immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The Nantes, France-based company went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange in late March 2015. Global Finance: What has been your biggest challenge as CFO?

Finance 52

Finance Marketability Corporate Finance 52

Global Finance

JUNE 11, 2025

Iceland GDP & Economic Data #2 | Denmark 🇩🇰 Coming in as runner-up for the seventh year in a row, Denmark topped the list in the first report, in 2012, and again in 2013 and 2016. Nordic countries, the authors of the report have noted in the past, share similar social and political models and values.

Finance 105

Finance 105

Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion conversion of Dell stock in 2016. Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell and other controlling investors have agreed to settle for $1 billion in cash a more-than four-year-old Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder suit seeking damages in connection with a $23.9

Technology 75

Technology 75

ThomsonReuters

MAY 8, 2025

Steve Hasker, President and CEO of Thomson Reuters Market interest in AI has already increased rapidly, with more than 16% of companies in the Russell 3000 mentioning the technology on earnings calls, up from less than just 1% of those firms in 2016. Roughly half of that spike came after the release of ChatGPT in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Technology 64

Technology Marketability 64

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As alleged, AT&T’s selective disclosures of MNPI prompted these analysts to significantly reduce their revenue estimates for Q1 2016, and AT&T ended up exceeding these projections by 0.1%. According to the complaint, AT&T’s conduct came on the heels of missed consensus revenue estimates in two of the previous three quarters.

Compliance 229

Compliance 229

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This is the latest in the long-running litigation concerning the 2016 going-private transaction of E-Commerce China Dangdang. The prevalence of mandatory forum selection clauses in depositary agreements means this decision is likely to have a significant impact. Background. Our prior summary of the case can be found here. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 8, 2023

One lawsuit attacks Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity—a public company in which Musk and his brother were the largest shareholders. Elon Musk is often described as a visionary, leading Tesla in its disruption of the car industry to become the world’s most valuable car manufacturer.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 31, 2022

In September of 2016, news broke that employees at Wells Fargo had been moving customers’ funds into newly created fake accounts—without customer consent—in order to boost their sales figures. For outsiders, the aftermath was shocking; regulators fined Wells Fargo $3 billion and Wells Fargo fired 5,300 employees.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 10, 2022

companies (enterprise value greater than $1 billion) purchased by private equity firms between 2010 and 2016. We augment the work on public company CEOs by studying the market for CEOs among larger U.S. We find that 71% of those companies hired new CEOs under private equity ownership.

Equity 265

Equity Marketability Private Equity Firm Enterprise Value 265

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 18, 2023

This is the conception of corporate purpose articulated in The New Paradigm (issued by the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council in 2016), supported by the Business Roundtable beginning in 2019, and widely accepted by corporate leaders, investors, companies, and practitioners.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 30, 2023

firms, exploiting the laws’ staggered adoption by nine states between 2000 and 2016. To inform this question, we investigate the corporate opportunity waiver laws’ net effect on a large panel of publicly traded U.S. more…)

Finance 243

Finance 243

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 20, 2022

1] The SEC alleges that between 2016 and 2019 Vale manipulated safety audits, evaded local oversight and fraudulently misled investors in public filings regarding its adherence to international standards for dam safety.

Data Analysis 235

Data Analysis Compliance 235

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 28, 2022

public firms from 1988 to 2016, we first document that most top shareholders of the acquiring firms also hold shares across a significant number of non-merging industry rivals of the merging firms. Using a sample of horizontal mergers between U.S.

Finance 255

Finance 255

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2022

The new rules contain only slight modifications from rules the SEC first proposed in October 2016. When the SEC reopened the public comment period in 2021, members of Sidley’s Shareholder Activism & Corporate Defense Practice sent a formal comment letter to the SEC regarding the proposed rules.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 18, 2022

Our sample consists of top executives across 31 countries over the 2004-2016 period. The corporate executive labor market is one in which the pool of people with appropriate talent and skill is limited relative to the demand, creating significant competition.* We focus on three primary culture categories.

Finance 240

Finance Marketability 240

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2023

Whether they will cause companies, dissidents, proxy advisors, and shareholders to change their behavior in proxy contests has been hotly debated by market participants and observers since even before the universal proxy card rule was originally proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2016.

Start-ups 257

Start-ups Marketability 257

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

4] However, such exceptions were not universal and, as will be discussed below, the vast majority of dual-class charters adopted before 2016 that contained transfer restrictions did not include M&A voting agreement carve outs. more…).

Equity 259

Equity Capital Structure 259

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our survey loosely follows the framework used by Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov (2016 and forthcoming) for PE GPs and Gompers, Gornall, Kaplan and Strebulaev (2020 and 2021) for venture capital (VC) GPs. more…).

Banking 220

Banking Equity Marketability Finance 220

Gross Mendelsohn

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The issuance and implementation of the FASB not-for-profit financial presentation standard, Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-14, back in 2016 resulted in changes to the presentation of GAAP-based financial statements for nonprofits.

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