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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

Law 360 M&A

The past week in London has seen easyJet’s parent company jetting off in a trademark claim against an auctioneer, law firm Hamlins facing a professional negligence claim from an events management company, and London-based digital bank suing Simmons & Simmons. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Weekly Roundup: September 30-October 6, 2022

Harvard Corporate Governance

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.

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Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

Harvard Corporate Governance

Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Umit Gurun is the Stan Liebowitz Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas, and N. Using this provision, we investigate whether firms appear to strategically assign titles to exploit regulatory thresholds to avoid paying for overtime work.

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Weekly Roundup: May 19-25, 2023

Harvard Corporate Governance

Luftglass and Peter L.

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How Alliance Politics Skews Corporate Debt Restructurings

Reynolds Holding

But in recent years, large corporate debtors such as J.Crew and Serta Simmons have aligned with certain of their senior lenders to pursue highly aggressive bankruptcy and out-of-court private loan restructurings. This makes defection attractive, whether or not the firm is worth more as a going concern.

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How the Balance of Power Is Changing in the Resolution of Corporate Financial Distress

Reynolds Holding

Serta Simmons, Boardriders, Incora), emerged in an environment where lender power was waning. Smith & Amir Sufi, Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value , 25 Rev. Smith & Amir Sufi, Creditor Control Rights and Firm Investment Policy , 92 J. Sponsor fingerprints are all over the deals.

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Clandestine Corporate Political Spending as Illicit Insider Trading

Reynolds Holding

ENDNOTES [1] See Omari Scott Simmons, Political Risk Management, 64 Wm. & Siebecker, A New Discourse Theory of the Firm After Citizens United, 76 Geo. In the end, such a rule for corporate political spending would promote greater efficiency in the capital markets, ensure corporate accountability, and promote political legitimacy.