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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NYT M&A

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Softbank’s chief executive, Masayoshi Son, believes the chip design company he bought in 2016 is poised to reap the fruits of the A.I. revolution.

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Appraisers Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

I worked in assessors office until fall of 2016. year —-total—————# reports-dollars per report 2016 $31,939.45 Generally not city work and this is for ANY report type including 1004D and any other type-I did not break down into more expensive reviews and RELO and 1004C and 1025. its everything.

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NYT M&A

MARCH 16, 2023

Mint Mobile, which launched in 2016, is known as a cheaper alternative to expensive mobile plans. The actor Ryan Reynolds purchased an ownership stake in the company in 2019.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 5, 2022

In a dispute over an insurer’s interpretation of a health plan provision incentivizing use of generic drugs, a federal appeals court has held that the regulation establishing an “embedded” individual cost-sharing limit under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) does not apply before January 1, 2016.

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 27, 2024

Medivation's 2016 sale announcement would have an expected positive "spillover effect" on rival Incyte's stock price, a U.S.

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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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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 26, 2024

An Evercore investment banker who worked on Medivation's 2016 sale to Pfizer testified Tuesday in the U.S.

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Appraisers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

VA realized that in 2014-2016 they were falling behind and kicked the fees to $600, then bumped them again in 2019 to $800. Those fees were nice when I was getting 4 orders a week from them. When I got on the VA panel the VA fee was $400 and everyone else was paying around $350.

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John Jenkins

MARCH 19, 2024

This D&O Diary blog from Kevin LaCroix discusses an early March decision by the Eastern District of Virginia that a bump-up exclusion precluded D&O coverage for the $90 million paid by Towers Watson in settlement of claims relating to its January 2016 merger with Willis Group Holdings.

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Business Wire M&A

MARCH 8, 2023

Indiana-based Genesis Plastics Welding is an ISO 13485-certified:2016 thermoplastics contract manufacturer providing world-class medical device innovation and collaboration through radio frequency (RF) welding and heat-sealing. Vonco is on a mission to create mor

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Law 360 M&A

JUNE 23, 2022

A Delaware Chancery Court litigation reserve compromise has potentially freed up another $360.4 million for former Yahoo Inc. stockholders still waiting for the balance of their cashout following Yahoo's acquisition by Verizon Inc.

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Exit Strategy

JUNE 14, 2023

The Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, commonly known as ASC 842, requires that all companies large and small that issue GAAP-based financials account for leases on their financial statements. It was issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in February 2016 and was effective January 1, 2022. What is ASC 842?

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LaPorte

JUNE 2, 2022

In early 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released new guidance on how businesses should account for leases. That new standard went into effect… The post Accounting for Leases in 2022 first appeared on LaPorte.

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 27, 2022

Attorneys for Yahoo's former parent told a Delaware vice chancellor on Friday that recent events in two Canadian courts support drastically reducing an $800 million holdback for future court settlements with Canadian subscriber victims of privacy breaches between 2013 and 2016.

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Appraisers Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

SWBC amc 2016 / Those guys kept forgetting to include counter offers with sales contracts, then agents and underwriters were all mad at me for not considering any counter offer as valid. In reply to Baggins. Well I’d have to know about counter offers in the first place to consider their validity. Threw me under the bus multiple times.

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Financial Times M&A

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Advocate general backs Brussels in examination of decision to block proposed £10.5bn O2-Three merger in 2016

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Meade & Moore

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2016, the FASB issued new lease accounting standards that changed how businesses reported leases on their financial statements. For most private entities and nonprofits, the new standard went into effect in 2022.

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John Jenkins

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The study covered claims received from July 2016 through June 2023. Euclid Transactional recently released the results of its first study of R&W claims. ” […]

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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…)

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John Jenkins

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

11/23) the 7th Circuit rejected disclosure claims premised on alleged misstatements and omissions in a proxy statement relating to the 2016 inversion transaction between Johnson Controls & Tyco International. Earlier this month, in Smykla v. Molinaroli, (7th Cir.;

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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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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 15, 2022

EBIA Comment: The proposal also included a renewed request for comments on regulations proposed in 2016 regarding, among other things, reporting for catastrophic plans and the possible use of truncated TINs (see our Checkpoint article ).

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The Guardian M&A

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The company, owned privately by Japanese investor SoftBank since 2016, priced its shares at $51 each and sold 95.5m shares, raising $4.87bn for Softbank. Continue reading.

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Rhythm Systems

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Their partnership with Rhythm Systems began in 2016 when they were just embarking on this ambitious goal. Signature Consultants, a respected IT staffing firm, embarked on a remarkable journey seven years ago, driven by the ambitious goal of doubling their company's size within the next 5-7 years, aiming to reach the $500 million milestone.

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John Jenkins

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

.; 11/23), in which it overturned the SDNY’s prior decision dismissing creditors’ claims seeking to recoup merger consideration paid to the company’s former director, officer & employee stockholders in connection with 2016 LBO. In so doing, the […]

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Law 360 M&A

JUNE 6, 2023

The Fourth Circuit rejected Towers Watson's request Tuesday to rethink its decision that a bump-up exclusion under a directors and officers policy applies to the so-called reverse triangular merger between it and Willis Group Holdings PLC in 2016.

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LaPorte

APRIL 12, 2023

Micro-captive insurance transactions are reportable transactions under Treasury’s new Proposed Regulations, which obsolete Notice 2016-66. The post IRS issues proposed regulations on micro-captive transactions first appeared on LaPorte.

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LaPorte

APRIL 12, 2023

Micro-captive insurance transactions are reportable transactions under Treasury’s new Proposed Regulations, which obsolete Notice 2016-66. The post IRS issues proposed regulations on micro-captive transactions first appeared on LaPorte.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since its inception in 2016, BluTV has experienced substantial growth in original content production and content library expansion. BluTV, Turkey's first local subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, has partnered with Warner Bros. This growth led to the integration of Discovery+ on the platform in 2021.

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Law 360 M&A

JUNE 6, 2023

billion acquisition in 2016 of rooftop solar venture SolarCity Corp., Delaware's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Chancery Court ruling denying stockholder claims for $13 billion in damages from Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk for Tesla's $2.6 in which he had both investments and relatives.

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Business Wire M&A

MARCH 30, 2023

North Star has been a Braze reseller since 2016, providing sales, onboarding, and customer success operations in the ANZ The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of FY24.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 3, 2023

In 2023, the number of proposals increased by 2% to 889— the highest number of shareholder proposal submissions since 2016. For the third year in a row, the number of proposals submitted increased. The number of executive compensation proposals significantly increased, along with a continued increase in environmental and social proposals.

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Benchmark Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

LEVL, established in 2016 by Jan O’Hara and Andrew Pearce, is a key Geotab reseller in the UK and for electric vehicles (EVs) across Europe. Benchmark International is pleased to announce the acquisition of Coventry-based LEVL by Canadian-based Banyan.

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 11, 2022

Charter Communications beat a claim from two employees who said they weren't paid for unused vacation time after its merger with Time Warner in 2016, with a California federal judge ruling that a merger doesn't trigger the same payouts as termination.

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Benzinga

MAY 2, 2022

The acquisition is the largest that Berkshire has made since 2016, but ranks behind its previous $37-billion acquisition of Precision Castparts. billion, at $842.02 The famed investor is known for taking rather large stakes in companies he feels are undervalued, but shares of common stock isn’t the end of the line for Buffett.

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Henry Horne

APRIL 12, 2022

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued its highly anticipated leasing standard (Topic 842) in Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-02. Private companies and not-for-profit organizations must adopt the new lease accounting standard for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021.

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