Benzinga

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

CRH PLC (NYSE: CRH ) agreed to divest its lime operations in Europe to SigmaRoc plc for around $1.1 The business comprises CRH's 16 operating locations across Poland, Ireland, the U.K., Germany, and the Czech Republic, which generated sales of about $610 million and EBITDA of around $137 million in 2022 on a combined basis.

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EBITDA Equity Marketability 52

Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Our latest survey reveals the critical sales and marketing practices that help consumer-goods companies achieve commercial excellence and deliver profitable growth.

Marketability 64

Marketability 64

Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 14, 2023

Maximizing the core, expanding into attractive adjacencies, and selectively launching new businesses can help midsize consumer companies achieve growth.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 4, 2024

Company laws in many European countries have traditionally adhered to a legal capital system, and most countries have required founders to contribute a minimum amount of capital to form a private limited company. Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani.

Banking 124

Banking Finance 124

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 23, 2023

In January 2023, the European Union adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires EU and non-EU companies with activities in the EU to file annual sustainability reports alongside their financial statements. On July 31, 2023, the European Commission adopted the first set of ESRS. Strine, Jr.

Compliance 189

Compliance 189

Mckinsey and Company

JUNE 21, 2023

Expectations for growth are declining, but investment is still projected to rise. Executives report on their plans to confront this changing environment with a diversified set of growth levers.

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Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 17, 2023

London-based firm attracts investors despite dealmaking slowdown

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 30, 2023

SUMMARY The European Union has finalized the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) that will introduce more detailed sustainability reporting requirements for EU companies, non-EU companies meeting certain thresholds for net turnover in the EU and companies with securities listed on a regulated EU market.

Marketability 270

Marketability 270

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 12, 2024

European Union antitrust authorities on Friday approved Illumina's plan to sell off Grail, the latest development in a saga that saw the biotech company reverse course and agree to offload the cancer-screening company after authorities claimed the reacquisition was completed "unlawfully."

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This potential merger comes as both companies face challenges amid weakening demand and declining prices in the containerboard market, used for making corrugated shipping boxes and industrial packaging, along with a challenging outlook for the global paper industry.

Marketability 59

Marketability 59

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This so-called responsible capitalism will have significant consequences for European companies, but also for non-European companies doing business in Europe, as the EU shows more and more inclination to enforce its ESG regulation on a worldwide basis.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 11, 2024

This post is based on a recent paper by Mr. Hurstel and other European scholars and practitioners, who are listed at the beginning of the post. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Competing Views on the Economic Structure of Corporate Law (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We summarise three key regulatory developments that should be on the agenda for large companies. CSDDD: The European Commission adopted its proposal for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive [1] on 23 February 2022. stock exchange.

Finance 235

Finance 235

Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 4, 2024

Overcoming the challenges to capturing cloud value, particularly those that are unique to European companies, requires a five-pronged strategy.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 25, 2022

Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS ) plans to spin off Sandoz, its generics and biosimilars division, into a new publicly traded standalone company. Related: Novartis Posts Mixed Q2 Earnings, Expects Improved Earnings.

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Benzinga

APRIL 22, 2024

Terms of the acquisition of NGC include an initial payment at closing of the company’s subordinate voting shares valued at approximately $16 million, subject to a typical post-closing adjustment. Full story available on Benzinga.com

Marketability 118

Marketability 118

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

The European Commission's top competition enforcer said Thursday the agency has taken a measured approach to using its newly asserted power to review mergers that fall short of local thresholds, as the European trading bloc's high court mulls a challenge of that authority from DNA sequencing company Illumina.

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Benzinga

MARCH 20, 2024

These changes, set to take effect this month, could compel companies that license and resell VMware software to either absorb increased costs or pass them on to customers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The group’s secretary general, Francisco Mingorance, is appealing to European and national regulators.

Marketability 97

Marketability 97

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 26, 2023

The start of 2023 has seen prices of permits on the European Union’s carbon market rise to record levels, rising above 105 euros per ton of carbon in February. We focus on firms listed in European stock exchanges and that have installations that are subject to the EU ETS. This post is based on their paper.

Finance 183

Finance Marketability 183

Machen McChesney

APRIL 8, 2024

While ESG reporting and disclosure apply primarily to public companies, there are efforts aimed at requiring private companies to also report on these matters. Reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters is an increasingly crucial area of corporate compliance.

Compliance 83

Compliance 83

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 29, 2022

on Monday, August 29, 2022 Editor's Note: Vivek Bommi is Head of European Fixed Income and Director of European and Global Credit; Eamonn Buckley is Portfolio Manager of Global and European Credit; and Markus Peters is Senior Investment Strategist of Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein L.P. Schanzenbach and Robert H.

Banking 152

Banking Marketability 152

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 15, 2023

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the proposed directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence revise current obligations and introduce new ones under EU law regarding company disclosure and corporate governance practices.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 12, 2024

Whited (University of Michigan), on Friday, January 5, 2024 Tags: Board composition , CEOs , gender , skills , women Engaged employees are asking their leaders to take climate action Posted by Jennifer Steinmann, Kathryn Alsegaf, and Derek Pankratz, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, on Saturday, January 6, 2024 Tags: Activism , Climate , climate action (..)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With the accelerating transition away from fossil fuels, awareness of the role of minerals critical to the production of clean energy (including cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earth elements) has increased.

Corporate Finance 275

Corporate Finance Finance Marketability Technology 275

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

French companies were disproportionately targeted in Q1, representing ~27% of European targets—nearly 3x the country’s historical share. Activity has declined following the onset of the Ukraine crisis, particularly from non-European activists; agitation may have pivoted to behind-the-scenes pressure rather than public campaigns.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 12, 2024

and European antitrust agencies said Friday their views are broadly aligned on many competition policy issues, though they also outlined opposing approaches to companies that want to collaborate on sustainability projects. The leaders of the U.S.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 17, 2023

17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ResultsCX , a provider of Customer Experience Management (CXM) services to leading global companies, including Fortune 100 and 500 firms, today announced its further expansion in Europe through the acquisition of Zevas Communications, an Irish CXM company. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,

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B2B Technology 40

Benzinga

APRIL 22, 2024

On Monday, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) agreed to acquire a manufacturing facility from Nexus Pharmaceuticals. Related: Novo Nordisk/Eli Lilly’s Weight Loss Drugs Does Not Cause Suicidal Behaviors – After FDA, European Medicines Agency Says. The deal terms were not disclosed.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 4, 2023

The European Securities and Markets Authority proposes to restrict ESG- and sustainability-related terms in the naming of funds, with an eye on the US and UK fund naming regimes. This post is based on a Latham memorandum by Mr. Davies, Ms. Higgs, Anne Mainwaring and Dianne Bell.

Marketability 150

Marketability 150

Benzinga

MARCH 19, 2024

The company also partners with Canadian GACP cultivators to produce and distribute finished cannabis products to the domestic and global markets. (TSX: CURA ) (OTCQX: CURLF ) announced Tuesday that it has signed a deal to acquire Northern Green Canada (NGC). Full story available on Benzinga.com

Marketability 69

Marketability 69

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 9, 2024

As carbon emissions disclosure requirements from the European Union, California and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission take effect, the best practice for companies is not targeted compliance with a given reporting regime, but rather a comprehensive approach to systems assessment and management, says David Smith at Manatt.

Compliance 52

Compliance 52

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 28, 2022

Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita (discussed on the Forum here ); Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value by Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales (discussed on the Forum here ); Reconciling Fiduciary Duty and Social Conscience: The Law and Economics of ESG Investing by a Trustee by Max M. percent support in 2021. more…).

Marketability 236

Marketability 236

The Guardian M&A

JANUARY 9, 2024

European Commission says it is checking whether multibillion-dollar stake is reviewable under merger regulation Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in the ChatGPT developer OpenAI could face a merger investigation in the European Union, officials have said. Continue reading.

Technology 68

Technology 68

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Shareholder proposals and media reports continue to put human rights concerns within companies and their supply chains under public scrutiny.

Compliance 186

Compliance 186

Law 360 M&A

MARCH 19, 2024

The European Commission on Tuesday accused construction materials supplier Kingspan Group of providing inaccurate or misleading information during the review for the company's planned purchase of Trimo before ultimately abandoning the deal.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2023

While all eyes are on proposed federal and European climate disclosure rules, the California legislature passed two climate-related bills that overlap somewhat with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s proposed climate rules (see our client alert on the proposal). Strine, Jr. more…)

Compliance 226

Compliance 226

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2023

1] The ISSB, which was established by the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation in 2021, released the Standards with the express intent of creating a global baseline that would benefit investors and companies and, thus, the international capital markets. [2]

Marketability 189

Marketability 189