April 15, 2016 Treasury Department Issues New Regulations to Further Limit Corporate Inversions and New Debt/Equity Regulations to Limit Earnings Stripping On April 4, 2016, the Treasury Department issued a broad package of temporary and proposed regulations (the “Regulations”) intended to reduce the benefits—and limit the number—of corporate inversions,...
June 5, 2013 SCOTUS Lets Stand Security Interest in Proceeds of Bankruptcy Transfer of FCC License On May 13, 2013, the Supreme Court declined to review the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit1 that had held that a security interest may extend to the “proceeds” of the future transfer of a license holder’s interest in its Federal...
May 16, 2016 Federal District Court Finds Partnership-In-Fact and Holds Private Equity Funds Liable for Portfolio Company’s Withdrawal from Multiemployer Pension Plan In the latest installment in the much-watched Sun Capital litigation, on March 28, 2016, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a decision finding a group of private equity funds...
May 25, 2016 SEC Issues New Guidance on Non-GAAP Financial Measures On May 17, 2016, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued new and updated Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs”) of the rules and regulations on the use of non-GAAP financial...
CHEAT SHEET â– â– A hallmark of good governance. Independent investigations when red flags are raised signals to shareholders, regulators, and business partners that the business takes misconduct seriously. â– â– Cooperation credit is cheap. The US Department of Justice has made it clear that it will offer reduced sanctions if an investigated company conducted an independent...
February 2016 Writing the Activism Playbook Schulte Roth & Zabel’s Global Shareholder Activism Group HAMLIN LOVELL IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEAZER KLEIN AND JIM MCNALLY W ith offices in New York, Washington DC and London, Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) is a leading law firm serving the alternative investment management industry, and the firm is renowned for its shareholder...
Westlaw Journal WHITE-COLLAR CRIME Litigation News and Analysis • Legislation • Regulation • Expert Commentary EXPERT ANALYSIS VOLUME 30, ISSUE 6 / MARCH 2016 New Anti-Money Laundering Regulatory Initiative Targets Real Estate Industry By Schulte Roth & Zabel On Jan. 13, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the U.S. Department of...
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AND 88 8 SER V H NC THE BE ING 1 BA R SINCE www. NYLJ.com Thursday, March 31, 2016 Volume 255—NO. 61 Expert Analysis Corporate Insurance Law Representations and Warranty Insurance Comes of Age R epresentation and Warranties insurance was first introduced to the market place around 1998. Since that time, now closing in on two decades, the use of Rep and Warranties insurance...
March 2016 Marketplace Lending Investments A primer for investment managers JOSEPH SUH AND THOMAS R. WEINBERGER, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP W eb-based platforms offering marketplace lending, or P2P lending, are proliferating as many traditional consumer and small business lenders struggle with increasing regulatory compliance costs and operational inefficiencies. Sponsors of marketplace...
APRIL 2016 Reproduced with permission from BNAI European Tax Service Monthly Digest, 18 ETS 24, 4/28/16. Copyright ஽ 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com U.K. Companies and LLPs Affected by New Provisions of the ‘‘People with Signiï¬cant Control’’ Regime Jim McNally and Anthony Lombardi Schulte Roth...
April | May 2016 New FINRA Registration Requirement for Algo Traders Implications for broker dealers and investment advisers BRIAN T. DALY, JULIAN RAINERO, DAVID S. SIERADZKI, WILLIAM J. BARBERA AND DEREK N. LACARRUBBA, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP O n 7 April 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s proposed amendments1...
April | May 2016 Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps Opportunities for investors, individuals, insurers and pension funds HAMLIN LOVELL T rillions of dollars of unfunded (and under-funded) social security and pension liabilities, combined with the demographic time-bomb of aging populations, creates a daunting challenge in terms of covering the costs of retirees’ costs of...
April | May 2016 The New Banks – Alternative Lending With SRZ's leading structured finance lawyers HAMLIN LOVELL A lternative asset managers are increasingly meeting needs for finance that banks, hampered by capital requirements, multiple layers of regulation and gargantuan fines, can no longer fulfil. Indeed, the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements reported that...