Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 2, 2023

Posted by Claudia H. Allen, David A. Brown, and Patrick A. Lee, KPMG LLP, on Monday, January 2, 2023 Editor's Note: David A. Brown is leader, Claudia H. Allen and Patrick A. Lee are senior advisors at KPMG LLP. This post is based on their KPMG memorandum. Crisis prevention and readiness. Crisis prevention and readiness have taken on greater urgency for management and boards as corporate crises—frequently self-inflicted— continue to make headlines.

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Compliance 226

Viking Mergers

JANUARY 2, 2023

As a former college basketball coach and the CFO of a small business, Jackson Payne has always had a passion for helping others achieve their goals. This passion has led him to his current role as a Senior Advisor at Viking M&A in Greenville, SC, where he specializes in helping small business owners navigate the complex world of selling a business.

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Business Valuation Banking Finance Marketability 130

Avanade

JANUARY 2, 2023

Malcolm Barske, Avanade’s Security Lead for the UK & Ireland, explains why it’s never been more critical to build resilience and protect your organisation against cyber-attacks.

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Audit Board

JANUARY 2, 2023

My tradition for the past several years has been to embrace my first blog of the year as an opportunity to set out timely, issues-focused New Year’s resolutions for our profession. I’m pleased to continue that tradition for 2023. This year’s resolutions take inspiration from AuditBoard’s 2023 Focus on the Future report, which asked internal auditors to identify the biggest strategic risks facing the profession.

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Compliance Technology 88

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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BV Specialists

JANUARY 2, 2023

We all know about new year’s resolutions from a personal perspective, along with the challenges these can bring in accomplishing them both in the short and long term. One of the hardest things for many of us, in both our day-to-day lives, and as business professionals, is examining the things we don’t do very well, and changing our habits permanently, to create a more successful outcome.

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Business Valuation 85

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission prepares to test the limits of its authority to combat unfair methods of competition in the coming year, as the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers continue pushing aggressive antitrust agendas alongside new proposed class actions from private parties.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

The sports and betting world will closely follow a pair of consolidated class actions in college athletics related to concussion liability and NIL rights, trademark infringement cases that could tilt the playing field across sports and gaming, and major cases involving the NFL and PGA Tour. Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in the new year.

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Butcher Joseph & Co.

JANUARY 2, 2023

Jeff Buettner discusses challenges unique to mature ESOP-owned companies and overviews ways to think differently about the ESOP structure to insure it. The post Common Challenges for Mature ESOP-Owned Companies appeared first on ButcherJoseph & Co.

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Financial Times M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

It’s shaping up to be another eventful year for dealmaking

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Finance 88

Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2023

Corporates and banks face a tight deadline to finalize migration from Libor.

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Banking 80

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

Corporate Finance

Financial Times M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Any suggestion of new deals should prove unpopular

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 2, 2023

In recent years, demand for companies to promote environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) values has increased dramatically. Investment in ESG-oriented mutual funds (green funds), rose globally by 53 percent in 2021 to $2.7 trillion ( Kishan, 2022 ). Bloomberg forecasts that by 2025 ESG assets may hit $53 trillion – a third of global assets under management.

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Systematic Risk Dividends Marketability 53

Benzinga

JANUARY 2, 2023

Paris, Amsterdam, January 3, 2023 Press release. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Sells Westfield Trumbull and South Shore Shopping Cent re s for $196 Mn. Transaction takes URW's total US deleveraging proceeds to $1.3 Bn 1. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield ("URW") today announced that as of Friday, December 30 th , 2022 it has completed the sale of Westfield Trumbull located in Trumbull, Connecticut and Westfield South Shore located in Bay Shore, New York to a commercial real estate investment firm.

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Marketability 40

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Franchisee-driven data privacy litigation against hotels, a push for a U.S. Supreme Court review of a lawsuit over public accommodations' accessibility for the disabled and a closer eye on COVID-19 science in suits involving pandemic-related insurance coverage are some of the cases that will dominate the hospitality landscape in 2023.

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Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

In this webinar, Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union and business strategist, will take you through the ABCs of intent data. You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 2, 2023

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shaw Communications today issued the following statement in reaction to the decision of the Competition Tribunal released on the evening of January 1, 2023. The decision is available at [link]. The Competition Tribunal's ruling is comprehensive, thoughtful, well-reasoned and clear in its finding that the proposed Shaw-Videotron-Rogers transactions are "not likely to prevent or lessen competition substantially.".

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Marketability 40

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Hybrid work environments, high demand for lateral hires and a potential slowdown of the economy defined 2022 in the always-busy marketplace for legal talent, and as BigLaw looks at the year ahead, there are five major sources of concern for the teams charged with securing and retaining that talent, say advisers at Baretz+Brunelle.

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Benzinga

JANUARY 2, 2023

Pune, India, Jan. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global industrial coatings market size was USD 132 billion in 2020. The market is projected to grow from USD 137.1 billion in 2021 to USD 183.2 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 4.2% during the 2021-2028 period. This information is provided by Fortune Business Insights™ , in its report, titled, "Industrial Coatings Market, 2021-2028.".

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Marketability 40

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

The world of mergers and acquisitions in 2022 in many ways mirrored what was happening in every other facet of life — it resumed with normality, with deal-making numbers falling back down to Earth after skyrocketing in 2021, and experts say that despite challenges like inflation and elevated interest rates, the M&A market will remain healthy in 2023.

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Marketability 40

Benzinga

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lisle, IL, Jan. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RealManage , which specializes in condominium and homeowner association management services, announced the official rebranding of ACM Community Management to RealManage. ACM became a part of the RealManage Family of Brands in January 2020. Illinois Senior VP of Operations Kimberly Sutherland, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, states, "I am excited to officially have ACM Community Management as a part of the RealManage Illinois family.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Twitter owner and self-styled "technoking" Elon Musk will grab some of the spotlight once again as Delaware's Supreme Court and Court of Chancery open a new year, but both courts are steaming into 2023 with a grinding, wide-ranging caseload and change in the wind.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 2, 2023

In recent years, few topics within the U.S. Department of Labor’s (the “DOL”) purview have garnered as much interest as the potential consideration of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors by fiduciaries of plans subject to the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) when investing plan assets. A closely related issue is whether, and how, fiduciaries should vote proxies and exercise other shareholder rights on behalf of ERISA-covered plans.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

U.S. antitrust enforcers are starting 2023 with a bad batting average on litigated merger challenges that they're hoping to reverse in a bid for new law discouraging problematic deals, helped along by major overhauls of their underlying policies.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Attorneys with their eyes on the retail industry should expect to see plenty of noteworthy litigation in 2023, including Starbucks' ongoing battle with unionizing workers, massive opioid settlements from pharmacies, continued antitrust battles over Google and Apple app stores and what could be a long road ahead for Albertsons' planned merger with Kroger.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

2023 could bring the opportunity for substantial rewards for deal makers able to successfully assess and minimize certain risks amid global and domestic challenges, say Maxim Mayer-Cesiano and Jonathan Berger at Skadden.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 2, 2023

Initial public offerings appear likely to remain sluggish for at least several months to start 2023, while special purpose acquisition companies, which provide businesses with alternative paths to public listings, face headwinds of their own. Here, Law360 looks at the state of the capital markets as we enter the new year.

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