Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Steinman, and Randi Lally, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Tags: Dodd-Frank Act , ERA exemptions , Political spending , regulation , SEC , SEC enforcement , Venture capital firms. Posted by Hester M. Peirce, U.S. Posted by Paul R. Insider Trading Disclosure Update.

Capital Structure 199

Capital Structure Equity Compliance Banking 199

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Simmons, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Monday, October 3, 2022. Friends in High Places: Political Ties and SEC Oversight of Foreign Firms. Tags: Comment letters , compliance , Disclosure , Foreign firms , SEC , SEC enforcement , Securities litigation. The Irrelevance of Delaware Corporate Law.

Compliance 189

Compliance Dividends Banking Equity 189

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 31, 2023

Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) , on Monday, March 27, 2023 Tags: banking systems , Central banking , Credit Suisse , Financial regulation , Legal systems , Liability standards , Liquidity , Monetary policy , Systemic risk The Evolving Battlefronts of Shareholder Activism Posted by Brian Tayan (Stanford University), on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 Tags: Activism (..)

Banking 213

Banking Equity Marketability 213

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 28, 2023

BlackRock to Expand Proxy Voting Choice to Its Largest ETF Posted by Joud Abdel Majeid, Salim Ramji and Jessica Burt, BlackRock Inc.,

Compliance 177

Compliance Marketability 177

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Mangino, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Tags: Boardwalk Pipeline Partners , Delaware cases , Delaware Court of Chancery , Delaware law , Fiduciary duties , LP v. portfolio companies Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc., Bandera Posted by Gail Weinstein, Steven J.

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180

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 8, 2024

Michael Weiksner, DragonGC, on Friday, March 1, 2024 Tags: cyber disclosure , Cybersecurity , Form 10-K , incident reporting , Regulation S-K , Risk management , shareholder engagement SEC set to adopt climate disclosure rules on March 6 Posted by Michael Littenburg and Marc Rotter, Ropes & Gray LLP, on Saturday, March 2, 2024 Tags: Climate Disclosure (..)

Banking 100

Banking 100

Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Mangino, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Friday, November 25, 2022. Tags: Firm valuation , Going private , IPOs , Private benefits of control , Unicorns , Venture capital firms. Lessons from the Chancery Court Decision in P3 Health Group. Posted by Gail Weinstein, Steven J. Steinman, Brian T.

Equity 189

Equity 189

Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP said Wednesday that Richard A. Department of Justice, has joined the firm as a partner in New York. Powers, who had been serving as the deputy assistant attorney general for criminal antitrust enforcement at the U.S.

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40

Law 360 M&A

JUNE 17, 2022

With so much mergers and acquisitions news this week, you may have missed some deals announced in the last several days helmed by firms such as Vinson & Elkins LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.

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40

Law 360 M&A

JULY 29, 2022

With so much mergers and acquisitions news this week, you may have missed several deals announced in the last several days helmed by firms such as Cooley LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Here, Law360 recaps the ones you may have missed.

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40

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 29, 2022

Posted by Gail Weinstein, Philip Richter, and Brian Hecht, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Friday, April 22, 2022. Tags: Innovation , Institutional Investors , Labor markets , Reputation , Tech companies , Venture capital firms. SEC Rules Would Make SPAC Process More Burdensome than Traditional IPOs.

Equity Financing 189

Equity Financing Equity Compliance Technology 189

Law 360 M&A

MARCH 28, 2022

A recent Delaware Chancery Court decision clarifies that the state is a pro-sandbagging jurisdiction in which an acquiring firm may rely on the truth of the seller's representations and warranties even if the buyer knows them to be false, and gives rise to practice points on sandbagging and due diligence, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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40

Appraisal Rights

JUNE 21, 2019

In the time since the decision, numerous law firms have provided further commentary on the decision, including: Ropes & Gray. Fried Frank. We’ve covered before some reactions to the Aruba decision. White & Williams. Locke Lord. Cadwalader. Potter Anderson. Sullivan & Cromwell. Wilkie Farr.

Marketability 52

Marketability 52

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 26, 2023

Luftglass and Peter L.

Equity 187

Equity Technology Banking Marketability 187

Audit Board

JANUARY 25, 2023

FTX was regarded as one of the more stable, well-capitalized, and trustworthy crypto firms. Its 30-year-old former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, who ran operations out of the Bahamas, was seen as a visionary for the industry. 11, FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced Bankman-Fried had resigned.

98

98

Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since then, the company, its many affiliates, and its 30-year-old owner and founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, have been investigated by lawmakers and regulators across many jurisdictions, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , the Securities and Exchange Commission , and the U.S. For instance, when a U.S. Similarly, U.S.

Banking 105

Banking Marketability 105

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 1, 2022

Blackman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Monday, June 27, 2022. Disclosure of the Extent to which Firms Invest in their Workforce. Chancery Court Accepts “Novel Theory” of Liability for Directors. Posted by Gail Weinstein, Scott B. Luftglass, and Amy L. federal courts.

Equity 100

Equity Marketability Technology 100

Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The nightmare for any law firm is a “partner run,” a domino-style collapse that can turn a temporary downturn into a liquidation in months. Reform efforts in the legal profession to open up law firms’ rigid governance structure could reduce partner run risk but could also open the profession to a host of new hazards.

Private Equity Firm 59

Private Equity Firm Start-ups Debt Financing Banking 59

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this piece, we discuss one of the SEC’s latest, and longest-gestating, directives: Section 14(i), focusing on new pay versus performance disclosure requirements, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and first proposed by the SEC in 2015. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Section 14(i): New Compensation Disclosures.

Equity 215

Equity Total Shareholder Return Compliance Marketability 215

Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Professor Fried noted, “below-5 executives pay packages are much smaller than top-5 executive pay packages.” [34] As we did in implementing the pay versus performance rule under Section 953 of Dodd-Frank, we have added complexity at every stage of the rulemaking process. Fried, Rationalizing the Dodd-Frank Clawback , 13 (Eur.

Total Shareholder Return 45

Total Shareholder Return Compliance Corporate Finance Banking 45

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Mangino, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Editor's Note: Gail Weinstein is Senior Counsel, Steven J. Mangino are Partners at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. This post is based on a Fried Frank memorandum by Ms. Steinman and Brian T.

235

235

Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The stand-alone enforcement actions spanned the securities industry, from billion-dollar frauds to emerging investor threats involving crypto asset securities and cybersecurity, and charged violations by diverse market participants, from public companies and investment firms to gatekeepers and social media influencers.

Marketability 45

Marketability Finance Private Equity Firm Compliance 45

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 14, 2023

Kay, Mike Kesner, and Ed Sim, Pay Governance LLC, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 Tags: Disclosure , Dodd-Frank Act , Executive Compensation , Pay for performance , SEC enforcement , TSR The Developing Litigation Risks from the ESG Backlash in the United States Posted by Rick S. Horvath, Julien Bourgeois and Mark D.

Technology 189

Technology Marketability 189

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Mangino, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Friday, August 5, 2022. Polans, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Chancery Decision Expands the Court’s Approaches on Director Independence. Posted by Gail Weinstein, Steven J. Steinman, and Brian T. Amendments to Form 13F.

Equity 198

Equity Compliance Marketability 198

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 22, 2024

Tong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Tags: CEO turnovers , Executive Compensation , Executive performance , Firm performance , recession , Stock performance , stock prices Investment Stewardship 2023 Annual Report Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc.,

Compliance 100

Compliance Equity Marketability 100

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 5, 2022

Regulatory Instability for Proxy Advisory Firms. Mangino, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. Tags: Capital allocation , Dividends , Executive Compensation , Firm performance , Incentives , Repurchases , Shareholder value. Posted by David A. Katz and Laura A.

Capital Structure 207

Capital Structure Corporate Finance Dividends Technology 207

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 26, 2024

Uyeda, U.S.

Compliance 100

Compliance Equity Technology Banking 100

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 15, 2022

Posted by Gail Weinstein, Steven Epstein, and Philip Richter, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. Chancery Court Rules Target’s Pandemic Responses Did Not Breach Ordinary Course Covenant. Gözlügöl (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research), on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Posted by Theodore N.

Finance 202

Finance Technology 202