Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What is a Public Offering?
Best Practices for Preparing Your Company for Exit
Tech Debt is Common. What does it mean for IPO readiness from a cybersecurity perspective?
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Makes it a Securities Offering?
A Day in the Life of a Financial Services General Counsel - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Has the SPAC Bubble Burst? Part 2: The SEC’s New Rules
Has the SPAC Bubble Burst? Lessons Learned From the Early Days of SPAC Mania
Fast Track to IPO: Why Are Series A Startups Snatching Topflight CFOs?
The Brave New Frontier of Securing D&O Insurance for SPACs and deSPACs
Venture Capital: Global State of the Market
Nota Bene Episode 95: Mapping Capital Markets and Securities Enforcement in the Current COVID-19 Moment with Jamie Mercer and John Stigi
Compliance and Coronavirus-Michael Beber on M&A, IPOs and SPACs During and After Covid-19
What Is a Direct Listing?
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 85-Professor Coffee on the Dearth of IPOs
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
Dual-track IPOs
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 175-Debra Bruce on new methods for law firm funding and its implications
Advanced Intellectual Property Strategies for Defending Your Life Sciences IPO
The Asia-Pacific region had to contend with a slowdown in new listings in mainland China, but another bumper year for India's IPO market, which consolidated its position as the most active IPO hub globally, helped to lift...more
Global IPO markets made steady gains in 2024, with IPO proceeds increasing compared to the previous year as the high interest rates that had disrupted major markets began to ease. After a challenging 2023 where global IPO...more
Like other global financial centers, Hong Kong has seen falling IPO volumes and volatile markets in 2022 in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and rising geopolitical tensions, including between China and the...more
A fiery, deadly Tesla crash outside of Houston over the weekend is prompting a federal probe of the company’s self-driving autonomous mode for “potential gaps in self-driving car technology.” ...more
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
As we thought, stocks rallied on Monday thanks to Moderna’s news of promising results for its Covid-19 vaccine, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting new record highs....more
So . . . . Nice, quiet week while we were gone, right? Wall Street forecasts are always dicey, but it sure looks like Pfizer’s solid vaccine news (along with this weekend’s newfound presidential certainty) could make for...more
ConocoPhillips is doubling down on its commitment to the Midland basin by buying Concho Resources Inc. in “an all-stock transaction valued at $9.7 billion,” even “as the American shale-drilling industry is facing a downturn...more
Walmart is again preparing to roll out its answer to Amazon Prime: Walmart+, a sub-$100/year membership service that features gas discounts and some free shipping (at qualifying thresholds)....more
Despite an earlier White House promise to postpone, American and Chinese trade negotiators met via videoconference on Monday to discuss “the status of the trade deal both nations signed in January, a pact that continues to...more
HP has officially rejected Xerox’s enhanced takeover bid, again calling the offer “too low” and decrying its “disproportionate[] benefit” for Xerox shareholders....more
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
The OCC announced yesterday that it’s bringing enforcement actions against five former Wells Fargo bank executives as part of their alleged roles in the bank’s sales practices scandal. The agency further revealed that it’s...more
Talks between General Motors and the striking UAW broke down yesterday, threatening the progress the two sides “appeared to make in recent days,” a troubling sign as the strike heads into its 4th week....more
Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what to look for in the numbers – WSJ and Bloomberg and NYTimes The White House has rolled out its “long-awaited plan” to return federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private...more
HSBC chief John Flint is out just 18 months after he assumed the role as head of the London-based bank, likely due to clashes with Board Chair Mark Tucker and the lender’s focus on expanding in China. HSBC also announced it...more
Google parent company Alphabet [and a host of chipmakers] formally suspended all business with Huawei “that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source...more
Chevron has dropped its $33 billion bid for Anadarko, ending the energy industry’s “fiercest takeover battle in 15 years” and leaving smaller rival Occidental “poised to become the dominant force in the largest oil field in...more
The latest on Uber’s Friday IPO includes new details on its anticipated pricing, which for now looks to come in at the midpoint of its $44-50/share range [though demand is probably strong enough for the company to shoot for...more
All of Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s “great progress” reports be damned, apparently. Over the weekend, the White House threatened to fast-forward plans to raise tariffs from 10 to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese imports,...more
The Fed made news when it backed off of its plan to keep regular rate hikes going in 2019, and the decision has done far more than just make Wall Street happy for a day. Here’s a look at how the financial world has reacted...more
I wish I had some better news for you heading into Christmas, but Wall Street was not in the holiday spirit, with all major indices diving another 2% or so on Thursday....more
We’ve already considered what the arrest of Huawei’s CFO will mean for the trade war between the U.S. and China. Now let’s dig in to what that move—and a host of recent country-level rejections of Huawei’s 5G...more
The author who literally wrote the book on the Enron is warning that the next financial crisis is lurking underground—aka, fracking has “turned the energy world upside down,” and it’s pulled in a bunch of Wall Street along...more
Today’s Muskdate is all about the SEC issuing a subpoena to Tesla as it continues its investigation into Elon’s August 7 Twitter post about the “funding secured” detail of his plans to take the company private....more