Benchmark Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This article provides a summary of the key transaction documents along with insights from your experienced Benchmark International deal team.

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Mckinsey and Company

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Trade documentation is a paper-intensive and resource-consuming process. An electronic bill of lading could save $6.5 billion in direct costs and enable $40 billion in global trade.

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Benchmark Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Founded in 1996, Datatron became the first dedicated bureau in the North of England, pioneering document scanning services. Datatron currently processes over three million documents per week, delivering services to a large number of customers across the public and private sectors.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Courts often subject parties using technology assisted review to greater scrutiny than parties conducting linear, manual document review, so parties using large language models for document review should expect even more attention, along with a corresponding need for quality control and validation, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Texas-based document management company M-Files said Wednesday that it has acquired Finnish no-code document automation platform Ment, formerly known as Contract Mill Oy.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 2, 2023

Specifically, we’ll look at the need for auditors to maintain professional skepticism and document their work thoroughly to improve audit effectiveness and efficiency. Revised audit documentation requirements Among the new provisions in SAS 145 is the revision of the audit documentation requirements.

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Valutico

JULY 20, 2023

Valutico Introduces New Feature to Support Documentation of Decisions and Assumptions Valutico launches a new “Notes” feature to document decisions and assumptions in valuations. To overcome this challenge, Valutico’s new feature enables users to document decisions and assumptions directly within the platform.

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ThomsonReuters

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In fact, a global effort is underway to tighten the restrictions and increase the documentation requirements for this practice, adding a significant amount of work and responsibility to the task of the corporate tax professional. What is transfer pricing documentation? transfer pricing documentation. What is transfer pricing?

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Technology Compliance Marketability 52

ThomsonReuters

MARCH 16, 2023

The trial court disagreed, holding that exhaustion of the plan’s internal claims procedures was not required where no language about procedures existed in the underlying plan document and concluding that the plan’s intentionally self-inflicted injury exclusion did not apply to this situation (see our Checkpoint article ).

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Benzinga

APRIL 25, 2022

Pune, India, April 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global document management system market size was USD 5.00 Fortune Business Insights™ provides this information in its report titled "Document Management System Market Growth, 2022-2029.". Document Management System Market Size in 2021. billion in 2021 and reached USD 5.55

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Norman Marks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For years now, I have been preaching (sorry) about the need for internal auditors to cut out any activity that doesn’t create value for its customers in management and on the board. This is an essential element in the great discipline, originally used in manufacturing by Toyota, called Lean. James Paterson (formerly the CAE at […]

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 24, 2022

Alternatively, the court ruled that the participant was deemed to have exhausted administrative remedies because the plan document did not contain any information about review procedures or remedies for denied claims. EBIA Comment: As this court noted, the plan document is at the center of ERISA. Contributing Editors: EBIA Staff.

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ThomsonReuters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

IRS Webpage: IRS Checklists for Retirement Plan Documents. The IRS has updated nearly all of the “subject matter packages” used by IRS specialists when reviewing retirement plan documents. Available at [link]. Each package consists of an Explanation, a Worksheet, and a Checksheet that are designed to be used together.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2003, a group of approximately two dozen lawyers specializing in venture capital (VC) finance embarked on a mission to standardize the financing documents utilized by VC firms for investments in US-based startups. For this reason, central to the NVCA financing documents is the NVCA model charter. more…)

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 12, 2021

Rathore described several ways that a lack of data management automation hampers tax teams: Data Collection: This preliminary administrative step has always been difficult in the absence of centralized data storage, standardized templates, and sound document management protocols. These include: Optimized data storage and document management.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, ProcessMaker , a worldwide leader in digital business transformation and process management, announces the acquisition of the intelligent document processing specialist Doculayer, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Intelligent Document Processing adds tremendous value. Durham, NC, Sept.

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John Jenkins

JUNE 14, 2023

John has blogged about the perils of emails & texts with books and records requests. Over on TheCorporateCounsel.net, Liz recently blogged about the quote that came out in connection with the SEC’s charges against Binance.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 28, 2022

securities regulatory authorities a disclosure document (the "Disclosure Document") relating to the Transaction that contains disclosure similar to what would be available if minority approval of the Transaction were sought at a meeting of unitholders. Brookfield Business Partners has filed with Canadian and U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It is important to note that we often see dramatic differences in disclosure between these documents. That means that a somewhat comprehensive approach to governance stipulated in the sustainability report might not translate into the relevant committee charter, or other documents or vice versa. more…)

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John Jenkins

AUGUST 14, 2023

On TheCorporateCounsel.net, I recently blogged about the 2023 amendments to the DGCL. The governor of Delaware signed those amendments into law on July 17th, and, with a few exceptions, they will be effective August 1st.

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Law 360 M&A

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Attorneys at Kramer Levin explore how transactional practitioners address sandbagging in acquisition agreements, the default rules that courts may apply when deal parties are silent on the issue, and how sandbagging comes up in the context of representation and warranty insurance policies and any related special indemnities in acquisition agreements. (..)

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 6, 2022

As part of its ongoing investigation, the team has conducted dozens of interviews and collected documents from Enforcement and Adjudication staff, as well as the Office of the Secretary. BRG is also conducting an analysis of access logs for the various systems.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE This report documents corporate governance trends and developments at US publicly traded companies—including information on board composition and diversity, the profile and skill sets of directors, and policies on their election, removal, and retirement.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

firms had converged around voluntary standalone ESG reports as a primary means of documenting their ESG activities. We also document how this content changed around the introduction of voluntary disclosure standards that defined a comprehensive set of financially material ESG issues. We next study the content in these reports (i.e.,

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N Contracts

JULY 12, 2022

Every profession has an unofficial motto.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Bankrupt architecture and design firm EYP Group Holdings Inc. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with its creditors that will allow its Chapter 11 disclosure statement to be approved on a consensual basis.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Mandatory Audits provision for private funds and the Written Annual Review requirement to document annual compliance reviews under Rule 206(4)-7. The New Rules also add books and records requirements to document compliance. Requirements for advisers when undertaking Adviser-Led Secondaries. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 23, 2022

Our analysis is based on a review of a large array of corporate documents of the 128 U.S. We manually collected and analyzed over six hundred corporate documents, which we are making publicly available in an online archive, the BRT Corporate Purpose Archive.

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N Contracts

MARCH 26, 2024

An RPF is a document designed to help determine if a third-party service’s service or product is a good match for an institution’s needs. When considering a new product or service, financial institutions often ask potential vendors to complete a request for proposal (RFP).

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Banking 92

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Using detailed holding data of mutual funds, our paper first documents a rising trend in mutual fund dual holdings of U.S. Consequently, fund families managing both equity and bond funds are more likely to hold stocks and bonds from the same company simultaneously (“dual holdings”). publicly traded firms.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 28, 2024

Moreover, a stockholder can only obtain those documents that are necessary and essential to the stockholder’s purpose, and formal board-level materials are typically the starting point and ending point for inspection. The court also continues to shift fees when defendant companies engage in extreme and vexatious litigation conduct.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Corporate policies have evolved from relatively informal internal documents meant primarily for employees into critical sources of information for various stakeholders and government authorities. more…)

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Compliance 161

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 12, 2024

2023) document, buy-and-hold investors realize negative post-merger returns while those who redeem their shares optimally at the time of the merger realize significant excess returns. In 2021, the U.S. witnessed an exceptional boom in SPAC deals, with 613 IPOs raising over $161 billion. As Ghang et al.

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National Law Review M&A

AUGUST 15, 2023

Set expectations, establish organizational documents, governance at outset of business partnership to reduce, prevent costly, harmful disruptions to business. Confirm and align business strategies in initial governance documents regarding money, responsibilities, procedures.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 15, 2024

In a new paper , I document extensive activist short involvement in the WBP, show why this involvement may undermine deterrence, and offer reforms. Considered separately, these are generally understood to be two valuable innovations that help detect and deter fraud. But, it turns out, they are not so separate.

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Finance 117

ThomsonReuters

APRIL 18, 2024

Jump to: Identify weaknesses in your firm’s workflow Evaluate technology and tools Create and document a new workflow process Evaluating future tax workflow bottlenecks What works today may not work tomorrow. By clearly documenting the workflow process, you’re setting clear expectations and guidelines for your staff to follow.

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Law 360 M&A

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attorneys should consider a few key tips to speed up their work during the holidays so they can join the festivities — from streamlining the document review process to creating similar folder structures, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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