ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws (May 28, 2021). Available at [link]. The EEOC has updated its guidance on COVID-19-related compliance issues under the ADA, GINA, and other employment laws. In addition to modifying and expanding earlier guidance on employer vaccination programs, the updated guidance adds six Q&As addressing ADA and GINA considerations for employer-provided COVID-19 vaccination incentives for employees and their fami

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Valutico

JUNE 11, 2021

???????? Proudly announcing the 2021 SelectUSA Tech Pitching winners – our very own Austrian start-ups Tonio – tone with information for E-Commerce and Valutico for FinTech! What tremendous successes against fierce competition from more than 2??0??0?? start-up competitors worldwide. Congratulations Florian Novak , Stephan Karner , and Paul Resch, CVA for your innovative solutions are clearly poised for success in the U.S. market!

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 9, 2021

For decades, the process that companies in the United States have used to go public has followed a familiar script. The company files a prospectus, providing prospective investors with information about its business model and financials, and hires an investment banker or bankers to manage the issuance process. The bankers, in addition to doing a roadshow where they market the company to investors, also price” the company for the offering, having tested out what investors are willing to pay, and

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Appraisal Rights

JUNE 8, 2021

This newest piece from Law.com [$$] analyzes the most recent appraisal decision from the Delaware Chancery Court, Regal Entertainment Group , in which the court awarded stockholders a 2.6% premium to merger price. The valuation determination followed from the court’s pegging Regal’s fair value to merger price less synergies, while adding back the increase in value arising between the signing and closing of the merger agreement with Cineworld that resulted from the reduction in the corporate tax

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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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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

Gorman v. Acteon Networks, LLC, 2021 WL 2156359 (E.D. Pa. 2021). Available at [link]. As part of an employment discrimination lawsuit, a former employee claimed that her employer improperly discontinued her medical benefits in violation of COBRA. The employer asked the court to dismiss the claim, arguing that it did not have enough employees to be covered by COBRA.

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Cooley M&A

JUNE 7, 2021

Partners John McKenna and Luke Cadigan joined PwC to discuss SPACs, tax, audit, legal, and other relevant topics for finance and legal professionals at venture capital and private equity funds. This event took place on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:00 AM PDT. Click here to register and view the recorded event. John McKenna. Luke Cadigan.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

CPA firms are understandably exhausted after the past year, however, there is a tremendous opportunity for the accounting profession to reflect, reset, and energize staff with a fresh perspective infused with learnings from the 2020 tax season. In the latest episode of Pulse of the Practice, “ A Conversation with Carrie Steffan ”, Paul Miller, Owner of Business by Design , and I discuss how to inspire and mobilize CPA firm staff in the year ahead with insight from Carrie Steffen of The Whetston

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

Luense v. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., 2021 WL 2103231 (D. N.J. 2021). Available at [link]. A federal trial court has dismissed portions of a putative class action lawsuit brought by participants in a 401(k) plan alleging that various individuals and entities violated their fiduciary duties relating to investment fund selection. The participants sued the plan sponsor, the sponsor’s board of directors and its individual members, the plan committee and its individual members, a

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

QUESTION: We understand that the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA) requires our plan to cover reconstructive surgery following a mastectomy. Can we impose limitations on the plan’s reimbursement of services performed by an out-of-network provider? ANSWER: Although WHCRA requires group health plans that provide medical and surgical benefits for mastectomy to also provide certain additional mastectomy-related benefits, including reconstructive surgery, it specifically provides that co

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

JUNE 10, 2021

During 2020, a record $270 billion in green bonds were issued, and green bond issuance is on pace to surpass that record this year. And while we discussed covenants and the ability of bondholders to undertake legal action against the bond issuer for violating these covenants, as a recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlights, green bond investors have little to no recourse if the bond issuer does not use the bond proceeds for green projects.

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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

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 10, 2021

Summertime Tax Tips. On June 3, 2021, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffery Zients noted that some 63% of adult Americans have received at least one coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and 52% of the nation’s adults are fully vaccinated. Also, 12 U.S. states have 70% of adults with at least one vaccine and 28 states and the District of Columbia have fully vaccinated 50% or more of their adult population.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 7, 2021

For those of you who thought that the spotlight on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting would fade alongside the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic , think again! The coming years are seen by many as an opportunity to rebuild the economy with ESG reporting at the forefront. So, registrants, gone are the days when ESG efforts were merely a public relations tactic and you could get away with promising without delivering.

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