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South & Southeast Asia M&A Report

Conyers on 4/14/2025

We are pleased to provide this twice-annual report summarising notable mergers and acquisitions activity in South and Southeast Asia, highlighting transactions over US$100 million in aggregate value. This edition features...more

EDGAR Next: key changes and compliance requirements for filers

A&O Shearman on 3/28/2025

The EDGAR Next system has gone live, and all filers – including public companies, investment funds, insiders, and third-party filing agents – must re-enroll in the EDGAR Next system by September 15, 2025, with the legacy...more

Securities & Corporate Governance Q4 2024 Quarterly Newsletter

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP on 12/13/2024

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP’s Securities & Corporate Governance Quarterly Newsletter is designed to update public and private company clients on recent developments in federal securities laws and corporate governance...more

New York Climate Week: TFMR event explores perspectives on accelerating decarbonization

A&O Shearman on 10/14/2024

We were delighted to host the U.K. Transition Finance Market Review’s (TFMR) flagship event at New York Climate Week, in partnership with the City of London Corporation who host the TFMR secretariat. The session offered a...more

Foreign Institutional Investors Await Italian Government Action on Corporate Governance Reforms

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 9/18/2024

On March 27, 2024, the Italian legislature enacted reforms to attract new investors to the Italian capital markets and improve corporate governance following guidelines issued by former Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s...more

HKEX and SFC Reduce Barriers for Specialist Technology Company IPOs and De-SPACs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/30/2024

查看中文 The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX) and Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have announced a temporary relaxation of the minimum market capitalization requirements for Specialist Technology Company...more

Bermuda Public Companies Update, Summer 2024

Conyers on 8/7/2024

This edition of the Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq in the first half of 2024. Global Market Update -...more

Resilience and reform: Hong Kong adapts to change

White & Case LLP on 4/12/2024

Global IPO markets endured a difficult 2023 in the face of rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty. But after a challenging 12 months, the outlook for IPO activity in 2024 is brightening This past year has been one...more

Euronext Launches New Sustainable Investment Tools and ESG Initiatives

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 10/12/2023

In September 2023, pan-European stock exchange and market infrastructure provider Euronext announced the imminent launch of a range of ESG tools and initiatives focused on sustainable finance, including its intention to...more

Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions - March 2023

Conyers on 4/27/2023

This digest outlines some of the significant legal work undertaken by Conyers on behalf of our clients around the world since the beginning of 2022. The year was challenging for many of our clients, with global uncertainty...more

Report on Hong Kong-Listed Biotech Companies - April 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/25/2023

点击此处阅读调查报告全文 Our third annual report on Hong Kong-listed biotech companies examines how the sector performed during the challenging conditions for capital markets globally over the past 12 months. Although aggregate listing...more

Culture: Increasingly the Driving Force Behind Corporate Performance

Ankura on 4/14/2023

This article is part of a collaboration inside The Culture Lab @ Ankura where experts from different fields come together to tell a more impactful story about business outcomes. For this session, Karen Fletcher from Ankura...more

EU Corporate Sustainability reporting: impact on non-EU entities

Hogan Lovells on 11/28/2022

The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, recently adopted by the European Parliament, introduces more detailed sustainability reporting obligations for certain categories of undertakings. Third country entities...more

Do Tech Companies Need ESG, or Does ESG Need Tech Companies?

Morgan Lewis on 9/9/2022

With Forbes calling environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors the “biggest economic trend of 2021,” many technology companies are at an inflection point as they evaluate adopting a full suite of ESG strategies into...more

Hong Kong Stock Exchange: Changes to Equity-Based Awards Take Effect in 2023

Morgan Lewis on 8/3/2022

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) adopted the proposed amended Listing Rules as set out in its Consultation Paper with certain amendments, including changes to share schemes of subsidiaries of listed issuers, share schemes...more

ESG Securitisation Continues to Develop in the European Union

Morgan Lewis on 6/8/2022

ESG securitisation has the potential to play a key role in achieving sustainable finance objectives in the European Union. There have been a number of regulatory developments and other advances in this area, including the...more

New Space Investments and Acquisitions Take Off

Perkins Coie on 3/24/2022

This article is the first of a series by the Perkins Coie New Space industry group on developments in the "new space" industry. Responsible for lowering the cost to access space, the "new space" industry has been developing...more

Life Sciences IPO Summit: Insurance and Factors That Impact IPO

Woodruff Sawyer on 1/4/2022

Experts from the life sciences industry shared their insights on the steps to going public in a virtual summit hosted by Woodruff Sawyer. The Summit featured leaders representing Cooley, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE),...more

Singapore’s Green Finance Drive

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/2/2021

What is green finance? The term “green finance” refers to financial products and services provided for project investment and financing, project operation and risk management in sectors such as environmental protection,...more

Sustainable finance in Latin America

White & Case LLP on 10/28/2021

GSS bonds and other forms of sustainable finance have become a mainstream feature of Latin American debt capital markets - Sustainability issues in Latin America have long been closely linked to finance, but never more so...more

Technology IPOs – A Meeting of Cultures at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 3/17/2021

Israeli tech companies have recently joined the wave of initial public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. This is not the first time tech companies have gone public on the TASE and it will take some time to see if this...more

Certain Shareholder Approval Requirements Relaxed as Nasdaq Provides Temporary Exception Due to COVID-19

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/12/2020

The SEC declared, effective immediately, as of May 4, 2020, a new Nasdaq rule proposal (“Listing Rule 5636T”), which provides a temporary exception, through June 30, 2020...more

New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Relax Certain Continued Listing Requirements

Smith Anderson on 5/1/2020

Reacting to the current market uncertainty and volatility caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (Nasdaq) have implemented several temporary rule...more

Direct Listings: Capital Liquidity, Liability and D&O Insurance Coverage Considerations

White and Williams LLP on 12/18/2019

Direct listings have been a hot topic in the news lately, particularly in light of the recent submission of proposals to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) (and indications...more

Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey 2019

A&O Shearman on 9/11/2019

Concern for environmental and social issues has reached an inflection point. While traditional governance issues that have been a staple of investor advocacy and discussion (the “G” of ESG) continue to be important,...more

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