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
In a typical bull market, private equity sponsors exit out of portfolio assets through IPOs, strategic sales and sponsor-to-sponsor buyouts. But the 2025 deal market has proven to be neither typical nor robust....more
Read our latest insights into the U.S. private equity market. We cover monthly deal activity and size, fundraising, exits, leveraged loans, and a look ahead. Deal activity: The U.S. PE deal market has been choppy in 2025 YTD...more
Following headwinds and underwhelming performance in 2022 and 2023, the IPO market in 2024 showed signs of stabilization. While the market continued to lag behind on a proceeds basis due to a larger number of smaller IPOs...more
Although European IPO markets still trail pre-pandemic levels, they began an upward trajectory in 2024, with an encouraging pipeline of new IPO candidates lined up for 2025. Regulators, issuers and investors are not resting...more
Global IPO activity showed steady progress in 2024. Although geopolitical volatility still lingers, the foundations are in place for another solid year. 2025 has the potential to be a strong year for global IPO activity,...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
US IPO markets entered 2025 well positioned for a promising year as stabilizing interest rates, a business-friendly US administration and the pressing need for private equity firms to exit portfolio companies laid the...more
In a highly anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut on September 18, reducing rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75-5%. This is the first rate cut in four years after interest rates hit a...more
The challenges facing financial sponsors in the past couple of years have been widely discussed. Their funds have amassed over $1 trillion in dry powder that they are competing to deploy in a weak exit market....more
Instacart President Carolyn Everson is heading out the door at the end of the year after just 4 months at the food-delivery company—the “second high-profile departure in recent months ahead of a possible public offering”...more
Dispatch #1 from the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos criminal fraud trial, which opened yesterday with jury selection and saw the excusing of 9 of the initial batch of about 50 potential jurors for lack of vaccination...more
As expected, the Fed kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday while also signaling that “they would wait to see how the economy fared before making another move”....more
You’ll remember Snap’s highly anticipated March IPO as a splashy affair, with a valuation in the $30+ billion range and a relatively consistent stock price. Well, reality hit hard yesterday, as Snap announced a $2.2 billion...more
Private investment funds and advisers are likely to face new regulatory challenges and increased litigation risks in 2017, not only because of a change in the administration, but also because many advisers have not corrected...more
The Fed’s anticipating faster growth in the coming year and rate increases to go with it. That and a whole lot of uncertainty about the incoming administration are the big takeaways from the Fed’s December meeting minutes....more
Renaissance Capital reported several record lows in their 2016 Annual Review of the U.S. IPO Market. A total of 105 IPOs were completed in 2016, raising $18.8 billion in proceeds—the lowest activity level since 2009 and the...more
Faced with new Department of Labor rules requiring investment advisers to act in the best interest of their retirement account customers, Morgan Stanley’s decided to let its customers keeping paying for retirement advice with...more