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Securities Class Action Filings Remain Steady While Size of Filings Increased Substantially in First Half of 2025

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The number of securities class action filings in the first half of 2025 remained steady in comparison to the second half of 2024 but the overall size of filings increased considerably, according to a report released today by...more

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2024 Senior Housing Market Outlook

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Could 2024 bring renewed growth for the skilled nursing and senior housing market or will proposed regulatory changes and the lingering effects of COVID-19 stymie hopes for a potential rebound? With rising occupancy rates...more

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The Post-Pandemic Economy in the Americas

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In the aftermath of the initial economic impact of the global pandemic on Latin America, the public and private sectors are confronting the economic challenges and opportunities of the emerging post-pandemic era. A new report...more

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Financial institutions M&A: Brokers/Corporate Finance

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Financial institutions M&A sector trends: brokers/corporate finance — H1 2021 and outlook for H2 2021 - Financial advisers turn to M&A to deliver additional bandwidth, capability and resources to ride the post-lockdown M&A...more

Perkins Coie

Quarterly Investment Update - 2nd Quarter 2021

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Stock Market Commentary - Thanks in part to vaccine rollouts, reopening, and monetary stimulus, the U.S. economy looks to be back on track. Along with the recovering economy, solid corporate balance sheets and robust...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 3.16.2021 | Top Story: Purdue Pharma Unveils Post-Bankruptcy Plans, Including $4.7B Payment by Sacklers

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Purdue Pharma has outlined its own plan to remove Sackler family control and restructure the pharmaceutical giant on the other side of bankruptcy—a 300-page effort that amounts to the company’s “formal bid to end thousands of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.11.2021 | Top Story: Fed Chair Powell Urges Focus on Restoring Full Employment

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In a much-anticipated [well, for some of us central bank nerds, at least] to the Economic Club of NY, Fed Chair Powell on Wednesday acknowledged that pent-up consumer demand unlocked by a big government stimulus package could...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.12.2020 | Top Story: Court Rules Apple Doesn’t Have to Offer Fortnite in App Store

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Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.20.2020 | Top Story: Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $2 Trillion Valuation Mark

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Apple tipped the $2 trillion mark this week, the first U.S. company to reach that valuation milestone, doing so just 2 years after it first hit $1 trillion. That it’s done so in the middle of a pandemic only punctuates how...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.22.2020 | Top Story: U.S. Sees 2.4 Million More Unemployment Claims and Concerns Over Undercounting

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This week’s latest initial unemployment filings numbered 2.4 million, a “slight drop-off in the wave of historically high weekly filings” since the pandemic hit the U.S. economy. Don’t get too excited, though. Continuing...more

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Orrick Finance Italy – CELF Weekly Newsletter #4

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Financial Daily Dose 4.29.2020 | Top Story: White House Declares Meat Processing “Critical Infrastructure” Even as Unions Object...

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Despite [actually, more likely because of] a rash of recent closures at meat processing facilities due to COVID-19 outbreaks, the White House issued an executive order classifying the slaughterhouses as “critical...more

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SEC Forms Cross-Divisional COVID-19 Market Monitoring Group

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced the formation of a COVID-19 Market Monitoring Group. ...more

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NYSE Proposes Rule Changes to Provide COVID-19 Relief for Listed Companies

Relief From Shareholder Approval - As a result of COVID-19, the NYSE believes that it is likely that many listed companies will have urgent liquidity needs in the coming months due to lost revenues and maturing debt...more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, March 2020 #3

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A draft version of the Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories (Amendment etc and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 has been published, together with an explanatory...more

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Effects of COVID-19 on Private Equity

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Private equity, like virtually every market and industry, has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and, like many other markets and industries, the total effect of the pandemic remains unknown. ...more

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ESMA releases public statement on COVID-19 – Impact on financial market participants

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On 11 March 2020 ESMA has issued a public statement in relation to the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on financial markets in the European Union. As a result, issuers will have to take action in order to cope with the current...more

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COVID-19 Implications for the OTC Derivatives Markets

With the continuing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, its full implications remain unknown. For OTC derivatives market participants, COVID-19 raises a number of considerations that firms should take into...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.10.2020 | Top Story: US Markets Dive Again in Worst Trading Day Since 2008

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Monday on Wall Street was the equivalent of a well-forecast storm that still managed to blow meteorologists’ minds. The deadly combination of diving oil prices and yet more COVID-19 worries spelled disaster for U.S. markets,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.2.2020 | Top Story: Activist Elliott Mgmt Amasses Stake in Twitter and Takes Aim at CEO Jack Dorsey

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Paul Singer and the Elliott Mgmt crew have a new target in their sights: Twitter’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey. Singer’s Elliott fund has amassed a “significant stake” in the company—perhaps as much as a billion—and is...more

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Impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on M&A and JV Transactions

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The outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV ("Coronavirus") is an extraordinary challenge for many transactions involving Chinese companies. In this section, we analyse its impact on certain key aspects of mergers and...more

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