Reynolds Holding

MARCH 20, 2023

The indictments of Donald Trump have begun to come down. Lest there be any doubt, this post is written by someone who believes that the rule of law requires that Donald Trump face prosecution. Defendants may plausibly reply that the purpose was only to protect Trump’s reputation (dubious as it already was).

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 27, 2022

The special purpose acquisition company acquiring former President Donald Trump's social media platform disclosed to regulators on Friday which firms raised $1 billion in additional funding for the deal.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 14, 2022

O'Melveny & Myers LLP's ongoing representation of the real estate investment trust founded by billionaire former Donald Trump adviser Thomas Barrack might limit the firm's role in some aspects of his upcoming illegal lobbying trial, a Brooklyn federal judge said Thursday.

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Law 360 M&A

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission's short public comment period on plans to reverse Trump-era rules governing proxy advisory firms, with one judge speculating whether it was a tactic from the agency to moot separate litigation involving the rule. The Sixth Circuit on Thursday questioned the U.S.

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Law 360 M&A

AUGUST 7, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission on its decision to roll back Trump-era rules requiring proxy advisory firms to give companies notice about their advice to investors, with some judges equating the notice requirements to the way courts require attorneys to submit electronic copies of filings.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Venture capital fund FTX Ventures will acquire a 30% stake in SkyBridge Capital, the alternative investment firm founded by financier and ex-Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci, the latter firm said Friday.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission violated federal rules when it repealed Trump-era regulations that increased oversight of proxy advisory firms, legal experts including former SEC Chair Harvey Pitt and former commissioner Joseph Grundfest have told a Texas appellate court.

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Benzinga

APRIL 13, 2023

According to the legal team representing FTX's debtors, the cryptocurrency firm has recovered around $7.3 billion in liquid assets as of an April 12 hearing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The team also claimed FTX may restart its crypto exchange operations in the second quarter of 2024.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it suspended enforcement of Trump-era rules governing proxy advisory firms last year while the agency reconsidered its policies. A Texas federal judge has ruled that the U.S.

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 13, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday pared back Trump-era regulations that increased oversight of proxy advisory firms, while proposing new rules that would make it easier for shareholders to generate proposals. A divided U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In a new paper, we argue that this decrease led to the creation of a “protection racket:” Heavily regulated firms in high-corruption states increased their cash reserves after McDonnell , presumably to bribe local politicians. We use two different measures of firm regulation in all our specifications, and include firm fixed effects.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 6, 2024

More broadly, legal exposure factors into debates about risk disclosure, as the most consequential impact of a lawsuit may not stem from direct costs assessed by the courts but rather from how a case’s outcome affects a firm’s operations and prospects. 1] Corporate litigation varies considerably across time, industry, firm, and suit type.

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Cooley M&A

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In September 2017, President Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, an investment firm with ties to the Chinese government, from acquiring Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Lattice).

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Draft Merger Guidelines called for heightened scrutiny of mergers involving “dominant” firms, which the Draft Merger Guidelines defined as firms with “at least 30 percent market share.” A few of those changes and their implications are noted below: Dominance. Vertical mergers. Vertical mergers. Technology markets.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 29, 2021

Department of Labor rule that would repeal a joint employer rule from the Trump Administration. The Trump Administration rule was finalized in January of 2020. The Trump Administration rule took effect in March of 2020 but faced a lawsuit that invalidated part of the rule in September of 2020.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 18, 2017

Transition to a Trump Administration is top of the agenda. Trump has the opportunity to nominate immediately an Assistant Attorney General to head the Antitrust Division at DOJ. With two current vacancies and the term of current chair, Edith Ramirez, already expired, Trump has an opportunity to remake the FTC in short order.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 5, 2023

How much – and why – do individual investors value ESG-related activities of firms? positive or negative changes in a firm’s ESG performance) can be uncorrelated or even negatively correlated with investors’ beliefs about its implications for firm value. Instead, the pecuniary implications of ESG news (i.e.,

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The short answer is that it’s very unlikely that any of these firms will go bankrupt. Several factors have contributed: Some of these firms now focus on wealth management and other non-IB activities. I can’t say much here because the job situation depends completely on the outcome of whatever happens to these firms.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 24, 2022

These considerations may make it very difficult to convince a federal judge to bar Musk from serving as an officer or director of either firm. A lesser daily contempt penalty was recently imposed on Donald Trump by a New York State judge, and Trump did eventually pay it. million a year – well below the termination penalty).

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Farrel Fritz

JULY 24, 2023

Proposed Merger Talks, Firm Winddown In February 2020, the Firm’s shareholders called a special meeting to discuss a potential merger with Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP. Ultimately, several of the Firm’s partners—including Laurilliard, but not Pastore—received invitations to join WHO’s partnership.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Trump would need to find smart lawyers to help, and he would probably find them – likely educated and maybe even now teaching at some of the best law schools in the country. One question would then be who would step forward to be Trump’s “star jurists” in roles analogous to Carl Schmitt and others in Nazi Germany? Deneen, op.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

These changes reverse key aspects of changes made during the Trump administration to the designation framework and procedures. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “FSOC revises its nonbank “systemically important financial institution” designation framework,” dated November 14, 2023, and available here.

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Value Scope

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Valuation and analytical work in this industry need to be done by firms that have the requisite experience and technical ability, as well as a strong understanding of the industry specifics and value drivers. Generalists will make mistakes you cannot afford. We understand all of the factors and drivers that move energy markets today.

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Value Scope

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Valuation and analytical work in this industry need to be done by firms that have the requisite experience and technical ability, as well as a strong understanding of the industry specifics and value drivers. Generalists will make mistakes you cannot afford. We understand all of the factors and drivers that move energy markets today.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In 2020, the Trump administration questioned the efficacy of the PCAOB in submitting a budget proposal to Congress that contemplated merging the Board into the SEC as a cost-saving measure. As a policy matter, the SEC’s continuing expenditure of resources on auditor regulation raises questions about the need for the PCAOB.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 8, 2024

TikTok and its users successfully enjoined the application of a separate, third attempt to exclude TikTok from the United States via an executive order issued by then-President Trump under the authority of IEEPA, on both statutory and First Amendment grounds. Trump , 507 F. Trump , 498 F. by ByteDance Ltd., 51297 (Aug.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Although the Obama and Trump administrations increased Section 8 scrutiny under their watch, this announcement reflects a departure in scope and approach from the DOJ’s past practices with respect to Section 8 enforcement. In this initial round of enforcement, the DOJ appears to have set its sights on tech- related firms.

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, if you’re interested in finance careers, you will probably view these jobs as steppingstones to investing at larger firms. If you want to go this route, find a management firm that works with commercial properties (or multifamily properties with 200+ units) owned by institutional investors. but it’s fine for your first job.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 8, 2024

For this reason, Henry pointed out, “one of the strongest indications of the high costs of collective decision making is the nearly complete absence of large firms in which ownership is shared among two or more different type of patrons, such as customers and suppliers or investors and workers.”

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 16, 2023

To further illustrate, consider the following example: When President Trump was elected, he ran on a political ticket that he was going to simplify the individual income tax return so that computing individual income taxes was so easy it could fit on a postcard.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 28, 2022

The problem started in the waning days of the Trump administration, when the Department of Labor issued new investment regulations governing retirement funds. [5] Investments from worker pension funds comprise between one-quarter and one-half of all assets managed by private equity firms. [19] ENDNOTES. [1]

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 29, 2022

14 During the Trump Administration, the FTC challenged Facebook’s (now Meta’s) acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp from 2012 and 2014, respectively. 23 For comparison, in the last fiscal year of the Trump Presidency, the DOJ brought ten merger enforcement challenges. Other post-consummation challenges are expected.

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

However, nothing trumps working with a seasoned business broker. The post How to Sell an IT Business appeared first on Sun Acquisitions | Chicago Business Broker and M&A Firm. It’s clear that although selling a business can be time-consuming and difficult, having an outline simplifies the offloading process.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 7, 2023

These proposals would reverse key aspects of changes made during the Trump administration to the nonbank financial company designation framework and procedures. ruled toinvalidate the FSOC’s designation of MetLife. This post comes to us from Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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Burch & Co.

JULY 7, 2016

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article written by Norm Champ, An Iniquitous Raid on Private Equity, on June 28 th , 2016, [link] , discussing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) enforcement action against the private equity firm, Blackstreet. Burch & Company and Private Equity.

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Farrel Fritz

JUNE 12, 2023

Professor Miller told the story of Diane Straka (her case summarized in this post ), a 25% shareholder of an accounting firm organized as a professional corporation. Instead, Straka petitioned for dissolution of the firm on the grounds of minority shareholder oppression under BCL 1104-a. Professor Miller explained that had Ms.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This resulted in the DOL under the Trump Administration issuing the Financial Factors rule, which clearly provided that an ERISA fiduciary could only consider “pecuniary factors” when making investment decisions and that consideration of collateral factors was permissible only under relatively rare circumstances. Proxy Advisory Firms.

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