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Interim Guidance on Stock Buyback Excise Tax Confirms Broad Application to M&A and Capital Market Transactions

Cooley M&A

1] On December 27, 2022, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the IRS issued Notice 2023-2 (the “Notice”), providing interim guidance on the Excise Tax. This post highlights key guidance from the Notice as it relates to common M&A and capital market transactions.

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Skadden Discusses the Impact of Banking System Turmoil

Reynolds Holding

banking system, according to Treasury Department officials. The concentration of uninsured deposits, particularly at mid-sized and regional banks (sometimes as high as 90%), will likely keep liquidity demand elevated and markets attentive to any sign of deposit flight. Consensus may be difficult to achieve.

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Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses the Implications for Financial Institutions of Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Rules

Reynolds Holding

Of most importance for financial institutions, the identified categories also include downstream activities such as “investments” (Category 15 of the GHG Protocol’s Scope 3 emissions categories), which would capture financed emissions ( i.e. , emissions from companies to which the financial institution provides debt or equity financing).

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Mergers and Acquisitions–2022 and 2023

Reynolds Holding

Most notably, the IPO market for tech companies (and generally) ground to an almost complete halt, with the number of tech companies raising at least $1 billion in their IPOs falling from twelve in 2021 to zero in 2022 and major anticipated IPOs, such as those of Instacart and WeTransfer, shelved for the foreseeable future. billion).

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