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Don’t Forget About Clayton Act Thresholds For Your Directors and Officers

BCLP on 8/1/2025

Recent enforcement actions and media coverage have increased scrutiny on director interlocks under the Clayton Act, which prohibits individuals serving at the same time as directors or officers of companies that compete....more

Middle East sees strong IPO activity

White & Case LLP on 3/31/2025

Long-term policy initiatives supporting the development of capital markets in the Middle East are paying off, with stock markets across the region supporting a cluster of large state-backed and private sector IPOs in 2024. ...more

[Podcast] Private Market Talks Episode 9: Demystifying ESG Benchmarking with Novata’s Alex Friedman

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast on 6/21/2023

In this episode of Private Market Talks, CEO and co-founder of Novata, Alex Friedman helps contextualize the evolving conversation around ESG and demystifies how companies and their investors assess ESG compliance and goals....more

DOJ Antitrust Announces Five More Director Resignations from US Company Boards in Continued Aggressive Clayton Act Section 8...

White & Case LLP on 3/20/2023

The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice ("DOJ") continues to aggressively pursue alleged illegal interlocking directorates that violate Section 8 of the Clayton Act, and in particular, interlocks involving...more

US M&A settles back down

White & Case LLP on 8/23/2022

Explore the data The headline for the first half of 2022 is that US M&A markets are still remarkably healthy, despite a confluence of headwinds. Without question, 2021 was an exceptional year, fueled by pent-up demand,...more

Private equity carve-outs ride post-COVID wave

White & Case LLP on 8/12/2021

PE investors stand ready to fund spinoffs of non-core assets as companies refocus for the recovery - Last spring, Dell spun off its cloud computing business, VMWare, in a deal valued at nearly US$63 billion, with the equity...more

Turmoil in the SPAC Market: What Private Tech Companies Should Consider Before Going Public Via a SPAC

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 5/11/2021

In the spring of 2021, one of the hottest markets—the market for special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs—has “screeched to a halt,” according to CNN. As the SPAC market grew red hot in the past six months, it seemed...more

Colorado Expands Ownership of Cannabis Companies

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/4/2019

On May 29, 2019, Governor Jared Polis signed six bills introducing new regulations on marijuana, including capital raising, social consumption and delivery. Colorado Expands Ownership of Cannabis Companies - Since the...more

Shareholder Activism Trends in the 2019 Proxy Season

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/23/2019

In 2018, robust U.S. and global M&A activity substantially mitigated the downside risk for activist investors. With political uncertainty ahead of the 2020 presidential election, unsettled questions on trade and tariffs, and...more

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