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Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Jeanne Hanna, Bruce Freed and Karl Sandstrom, Center for Political Accountability, on Sunday, April 23, 2023 Editor's Note: Jeanne Hanna is Research Director, Bruce F. Freed is President and co-founder, and Karl J. Sandstrom is Strategic Advisor, at the Center for Political Accountability. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides?

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BREAKING: Bed Bath & Beyond Files For Bankruptcy

Law 360 M&A

Home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond filed its long-anticipated bankruptcy Sunday morning, seeking Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey bankruptcy court with $5.2 billion in debt after years of declining sales and store closures.

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Quantum technology sees record investments, progress on talent gap

Mckinsey and Company

Investors buoy established quantum start-ups, technological progress continues—though at a slower pace—and more academic institutions offer quantum programs.

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

Law 360 M&A

In the past year, companies like JUUL, Capital One and Southern California Edison have settled for millions if not billions of dollars in litigation that was high-profile and often groundbreaking in its impact on the law itself. Such cases and many others — which involved opioids, sexual harassment, kickbacks and data breaches — were led by attorneys whose accomplishments helped them earn recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2023.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

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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SEC Chair Testifies Before U.S. House Committee on Financial Services

Reynolds Holding

Good morning, Chairman McHenry, Ranking Member Waters, and members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. As is customary, I will note that my views are my own, and I am not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners or the staff. Sam Rayburn and the U.S. Securities Laws Walking into the Rayburn building, I couldn’t help but stop by the statue of Sam Rayburn, the longest serving Speaker of the House.

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Credit Suisse Drops Plans To Buy Boutique Investment Biz

Law 360 M&A

Credit Suisse Group AG said Monday that it has scrapped plans to buy a boutique investment business from former Citigroup executive Michael Klein for $175 million, as the struggling lender prepares to be taken over by rival UBS AG.

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Assa Abloy Judge 'Won't Be Convinced By Evasiveness'

Law 360 M&A

Evasive witnesses will carry little weight in the U.S. Department of Justice challenge to Assa Abloy's $4.3 billion pickup of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business, the D.C. federal judge presiding over the trial, her first as a judge, said on Saturday.

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Liability in AI Decision-Making: Legal Implications.

Law Essentials M&A

This blog is written by Mahak Agarwal, 4th year, Institute of Law, Nirma University

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A Way Out of the Banking Crisis: The Case for a New Style Prime Money Market Fund

Reynolds Holding

The best way out of the bank stability problem revealed by the run on Silicon Valley Bank – but spreading to other banks – may be a new style of prime money market fund (“MMF”) that, unlike existing prime MMFs, has some loss-absorbing capacity and so could offer fixed net asset value (“NAV”). Recall in the pre-MMF reform days how prime MMFs worked. They became a haven for cash management by institutional investors because they provided more safety than a bank balance sheet, minimizing credit an

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