Cooley M&A

AUGUST 25, 2021

A recently published article by UC Davis School Law Professor Afra Afsharipour, “ Women and M&A ,” shows that of the 20 firms handling the most significant public M&A transactions from 2014 to 2020, Cooley is the only firm with equal gender representation in leading roles across such deals. Read the full report.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 21, 2023

Harvard (as discussed in our prior memos ), diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs have attracted increased scrutiny from longtime critics. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission questioning the legality of their DEI initiatives. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in SFFA v. Many high-profile U.S.

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ThomsonReuters

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Once, one of Shaul’s professors spoke about the importance of business development, saying that if you ever want to become a partner in a firm, you need to become a rainmaker and start bringing in your own work. As an undergrad, she majored in political science and pre-law. This strengthened her desire  to have her own firm.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nasdaq | TSX: HUT), (" Hut 8 " or the " Company ") one of North America's largest, most innovative digital asset mining pioneers and high performance computing infrastructure providers, proudly announces the completion of its business combination pursuant to which Hut 8 and U.S. Shares of Hut 8 Corp. Data Mining Group, Inc.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 9, 2022

The California Secretary of State has appealed a decision by the Los Angeles County Superior Court striking down the second of California’s two board diversity laws, which required all publicly traded companies headquartered in California to include a minimum number of female directors. This decision was appealed in June. Background.

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Sun Acquisitions

MARCH 26, 2024

This tactic is not merely a defensive maneuver but an assertive step toward future-proofing businesses against the unpredictable tides of global supply networks. This tactic is not merely a defensive maneuver but an assertive step toward future-proofing businesses against the unpredictable tides of global supply networks.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Officers Owe Oversight Duties Comparable to Those of Directors While acknowledging that “no Delaware decision has stated the proposition in so many words,” VC Laster concluded that “diverse authorities indicate that officers owe a fiduciary duty of oversight as to matters within their areas of responsibility.” In re McDonald’s Corp.

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Equilest

JANUARY 18, 2024

From leveraging social media for brand promotion to implementing customer loyalty programs, there are numerous tactics that can contribute to the overall success of your salon business. Explaining the significance of determining the value of a business. Impact of employee retention on business value. Location and competition.

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IVSC

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

. ” Market demand for professionals accredited in business valuation is currently at an all-time high. I was a Chartered Accountant (Chartered Professional Accountant) working in assurance when the field of business valuation caught my eye. I received my CBV in 2008 and spent over a decade working in public valuation practice.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JULY 5, 2023

and I regularly work with regional and national banks, charitable groups, attorneys, accountants, and business clients from sole proprietors to international Fortune 5 corporations. Garrett Schwartz, ASA (left) serving as a panelist at a California Board of Equalization meeting in 2019, with Jack Young, ASA (right). Go Bucks!).

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Benzinga

APRIL 27, 2022

Combination will create a financially sound Nasdaq-listed company with a diverse product development pipeline, strong existing partnerships and potential for future attractive partnerships. The merged company projects a number of potential value-creating data and business development milestones over the next 24 months. Eastern Time.

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Audit Board

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The outstanding speakers for AuditBoard’s webinars covered emerging risk topics impacting organizations like auditing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs, cybersecurity, inflation, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). 2022 Audit Webinar Trends. The third trend in 2022’s webinars centered around adopting technology.

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Farrel Fritz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The plaintiff, a frozen-out 28% shareholder of a family-owned business founded by his father, also won on appeal reinstatement of his complaint’s direct claims for breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment. Earlier this year, using as a springboard the Maryland intermediate appellate court’s decision in Eastland Food Corp.

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Audit Board

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As auditors, we tend to focus on quantifiable business risks and overlook less tangible human dimensions. The report describes this risk area as “firmly cementing itself among the hardest challenges businesses face” and one of the “high-impact, interlocking risks that have thrown many businesses into a permanent state of crisis.” .

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It may well be the case that the ruling bears directly on an issue of political significance with little or no obvious direct relevance for businesses or commercial conduct. Companies today face more pressure to speak on social and political issues than ever before. Consider this now-commonplace scenario: The U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In October 2022, UCLA Law School conducted a symposium examining these questions and published the resulting papers in the ABA’s Business Lawyer. As I write in my paper, in the years since Enron became a household name, compliance has “matured into a complex and well-respected function that supports diverse monitoring and governance goals.

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Farrel Fritz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One of the earliest signs that a closely-held business is headed for divorce lies in how its owners treat new opportunities. That temptation explains why we business divorce litigators frequently see claims for “usurpation of corporate opportunity.”. What if the counterparty was unwilling to deal with the company?

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Equilest

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Explore the depths of valuation interview questions and answers in our comprehensive guide. Uncover the intricacies of financial modeling, from understanding fundamental concepts like Free Cash Flow to Firm and Dividend Discount Model, to navigating advanced methodologies such as LBO and DCF.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Investor protection remains a core value for the current SEC, while keeping technological innovation essential to the agency’s considerations: The SEC will treat all financial activities under consistent and efficient regulation and enforcement, “regardless of … the technology, or the business model.”.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social risks include impacts to all stakeholders and global citizens, including the well-being, reputation, or privacy of customers, employees, or suppliers, as well as issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). . Increasingly, businesses are engaging third-party assurance auditors to report on those ESG disclosures. .

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Farrel Fritz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

For example, when a business divorce litigant sues, he or she may allege a mix of substantive claims, like breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and accounting (among any number of other colorful claims in the business divorce litigant’s palette). The Matrimonial-Turned-Business-Divorce Dispute.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 7, 2023

Posner, Cooley LLP, on Sunday, July 2, 2023 Tags: board diversity , Climate change , Cybersecurity , Disclosure , human capital disclosures , Political spending , SEC enforcement , short term agenda Chancery Court Finds for Oracle Founder and CEO in Post-Trial Decision Posted by Rick S. Horvath, Steven A. Engel, and Joni S.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JULY 9, 2023

This paramount event provides an experience unlike other appraisal conferences, offering timely content for all appraisal professionals spanning Business Valuation, Personal Property, Machinery & Equipment, Real Property, Gems & Jewelry as well as Appraisal Review & Management. In addition, Ms.

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Benzinga

JUNE 14, 2023

Since establishing Gibson as a leading liquids-focused infrastructure company, we have been looking for an opportunity that is a strategic fit, while enhancing our scale and diversity," said Steve Spaulding, President and Chief Executive Officer. Not for distribution to U.S. news wire services or for dissemination in the United States.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 1, 2023

2] State Street followed through on its announcement by voting against the reelection of directors at companies that failed to make meaningful progress in improving the diversity of their boards. State Street was not alone in its efforts; indeed, major public pension funds had spearheaded the initial effort to increase board diversity.

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

In addition, the C-level has repeatedly called for stress scenarios and sensitivity analyses to predict the most diverse situations. In addition, the C-level has repeatedly called for stress scenarios and sensitivity analyses to predict the most diverse situations. This year, EACT received 343 answers from MNC’s across Europe.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 25, 2023

Our Goals Protecting the Investing Public; Maintaining a Robust, Relevant Regulatory Framework; Supporting a Skilled and Diverse Workforce The United States has the largest, most sophisticated, and most innovative capital markets in the world. New financial technologies continue to change the face of finance for investors and businesses.

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IVSC

OCTOBER 21, 2023

The World Bank periodically issues a ‘Doing Business’ report in which they rank the ease of doing business. EV is responsible for evaluation of U.S. Embassy and Consulate facilities and other real estate worldwide. The portfolio consists of over 25,000 properties in over 190 countries. Buy and Fair Market Rent Analyses.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

With the possible exception of FIG , oil & gas investment banking generates the highest number of panicked emails and questions. Historically, these panicked questions were usually variations of: “Will I get pigeonholed? I don’t want to be stuck in oil & gas forever. How do I move around? petroleum or geophysical engineering).

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a wide range of perspectives, we met with a broad group of outside experts, including public interest groups, ethicists, academics, audit committee members, in-house attorneys, former corporate monitors, and members of the business community and defense bar. Today, you will hear how these new policies reflect this diverse input.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 23, 2023

Too often, investment trusts and investment companies were organized and operated as adjuncts to the business of the supervisors and insiders to advance their personal interest at the expense of and to the detriment of their stockholders,” Healy said. [5] Roosevelt and Congress knew, however, that their work wasn’t done.

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Equilest

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Explore the Discover Types, Structures, and Valuations in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) by continue reading Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of business, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become an integral strategy for companies aiming to grow, diversify, or streamline operations. What Is a Merger? Asset Purchase 4.2

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To address this widespread gender imbalance, many countries have implemented gender diversity policies ranging from enforceable quotas with hard or soft sanctions to voluntary recommendations included in corporate governance codes. Women have traditionally suffered from discrimination in the labor market (Tatli et al.,

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 10, 2022

The past decade has seen an explosion of boardroom gender diversity reforms worldwide. As of 2014, 23 countries have amended governance codes and 14 countries have enacted laws to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. Institutions can also leverage public pressure for the reforms in their private negotiations with managers.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 12, 2022

ESG and diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) advocates, along with federal and state regulators, have begun to examine the potential benefit and harm of AI tools vis-à-vis such communities. Companies will also be better poised to achieve their DEI goals. Federal regulatory and legislative policy and AI decision-making tools.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 8, 2023

It is no secret that American corporations face vigorous — and often conflicting — demands concerning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Over the past year, DEI initiatives and commitments have come under pressure in the face of macroeconomic headwinds, political scrutiny and legal challenges.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But the June 29, 2023, decision has already emboldened those who are seeking to challenge private sector diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Supreme Court’s historic ruling on affirmative action is limited to college admissions and not directly applicable to private employers. Background In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

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