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Whitepapers and Advisories
Whitepapers:
Raising Capital: Deal Points Series
- Raising Capital Through Private Placements: Deal Points (January 2024)
- Raising Capital Through Private Placements Exemption Chart (January 2024)
- Raising Capital through SPACs: SEC Adopts New Rules: Deal Points (February 2024)
Mergers & Acquisitions: Deal Points Series
- Mergers & Acquisitions I: Overview and Transaction Types: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions II: Tax Structuring Considerations: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions III: Acquisition Consideration: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions IV: Preliminary Documentation: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions V: Stock Purchase Transactions: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions VI: Asset Purchase Transactions: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions VII: Mergers: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions VIII: Antitrust Merger Control & Clearance: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions IX: Intellectual Property Issues: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions X: Financing M&A: Deal Points
- Mergers & Acquisitions XI: Public M&A: Deal Points
Other Whitepapers
- Forming Exempt Private Investment Funds (February 2024)
- Restructuring a Multinational Corporation to Optimize Profitability and Efficiency: A Case Study
- An International Joint Venture Agreement Checklist: Deal Points (March 2023)
- Special Purpose Vehicles: Uses and Abuses (March 2024)
- Wyoming’s Digital Assets and DAO Laws and How to Use Them (January 2023)
- Biotech, Pharma & Chemicals Master Distribution Agreement Term Sheet: Deal Points (May 2023)
- Resales of Restricted Securities: Deal Points
- Public or Private: When Should a Company Go Public and When Stay Private?
- CFIUS-FIRRMA Foreign Investment Rules Impact Cross-Border Deals (April 2023)
- Powersharing: Allocating Rights and Responsibilities Early in Company Life to Avoid Trouble Later and Create a Viable Investment Vehicle
- Rule 701 Amendment Encourages Stock Option and other Equity-Based Compensation Plans
- U.S. Communications Law and Transactions
Legal and Regulatory Advisories:
- Mergers & Acquisitions: FTC Announces 2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino Reporting Thresholds
- New Federal and New York Corporate Transparency Acts Require Corporate, LLC Beneficial Ownership Disclosures
- FTC and DoJ Issue New Merger Guidelines
- European Union Passes Artificial Intelligence Act
- SEC Rule 148: The Exception to the General Solicitation or Advertising Prohibition When Raising Capital Through Private Placements
- Biden Administration Issues Executive Order Restricting U.S. Investment in China for Sensitive Information Technologies
- SEC Adopts New Rules on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Disclosure
- FTC and DoJ Issue Proposed New Merger Guidelines
- FTC Issues Rulemaking for Major Revision of Hart-Scott-Rodino M&A Reporting Obligations
- Court Rejects FTC Attempt to Block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Acquisition
- SEC Charges Binance and Coinbase in Latest Cryptocurrency Exchange Implosions
- SEC Fines Philips N.V. $62 Million for FCPA Violations
- SEC Adopts New Rules to Enhance Private Fund Advisor Reporting
- UK Competition and Markets Authority Blocks Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Acquisition
- FCC Proposes Framework to Facilitate Satellite-to-Smartphone Supplemental Coverage
- FCC Spectrum Auction Authority Lapses Under Congressional Inaction
- FCC Approves Kuiper Systems Orbital Debris Mitigation Plan
- FTC Proposes New Rule to Ban Non-Compete Clauses
- FTC Sues Microsoft to Block $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Acquisition
- SEC Seeks to Stop Allegedly Misleading Crypto Asset Securities Registration
- FCC Partially Grants SpaceX Gen2 Starlink Satellite Application
- FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Files in Bankruptcy
- FCC Chair Announces New Space Bureau
- U.K. Competition Authority Launches Phase 2 Review of Viasat-Inmarsat Merger
- FCC Adopts Mandatory 5 Year Satellite De-Orbiting Rules
- Orbital Debris Remediation Actions
- FCC Opens Proceeding on Innovation and Transformation in the Space Economy
- FCC Denies SpaceX Starlink $885.5 Million in Rural Broadband Subsidies
- Second Bipartisan Senate Bill on Crypto/Digital Assets Introduced
- FTC Sues Facebook Parent Meta to Block Virtual Reality Acquisition
- Eutelsat and OneWeb Agree to $3.4 Billion Merger
- SEC Charges Former Coinbase Manager with Crypto/Digital Assets Insider Trading
- Musk Pulls Out of Twitter Deal
- EU to Modify IPO Rules to Attract Deep Tech Startups
- EU Reaches Provisional Crypto/Digital Assets Directive Deal
- DoJ Sues to Block Acquisition of Defense/Intelligence Contractor
- Bipartisan Senate Bill on Crypto/Digital Assets Introduced
- FTC Fines Twitter $150 Million over Deceptive Account Data Use
- Twitter Counters Elon Musk Takeover Offer with a Poison Pill
- SEC Proposes New Rules to Enhance SPAC Disclosure and Investor Protection
- U.S. Executive Order Issued to Develop Cryptocurrency/Digital Asset Regulatory Framework
- U.S. – E.U. Russia Sanctions and their Impact
- SEC Proposes New Rules to Protect Private Fund Investors
- SEC Proposes Rule Amendments to Modernize Beneficial Ownership Reporting
- FTC and DoJ Launch Effort to Restrict Anticompetitive Mergers
- Stablecoin Regulatory Oversight Urged by U.S. Report
- FTC Restores Restrictive Prior Approval Merger Review Policy
- SEC Charges Crowdfunding Issuer and Portal for the First Time
- Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate Agreement Reached
- FTC Sets Ambitious M&A Enforcement Agenda
- SEC Charges Three Companies $539 Million for Illegal General Solicitation
- FTC Warns on Use of Debt Retirement to Avoid HSR Filings
- SEC Charges Space Transportation Company SPAC
- SEC Charges U.S. Promoters of $2 billion Global Cryptocurrency Lending Unregistered Securities Offering Scheme
- SEC Adopts Major Exempt Securities Offering Rule Amendments
- Does Covid-19 Provide a Material Adverse Effect Excuse from Completing a Merger?
- Update to SEC Proposed New Exempt Offering Rules
- Regulation Crowdfunding Temporary Liberalization Rules Ease Capital Raising
- CARES Act Provisions for Business Relief
- Force Majeure Clauses and the Covid-19 Pandemic
- SEC Proposes New Exempt Offering Framework Harmonization and Simplification Rules
- FCC Authorizes Incentive Payments to Satellite Operators Ahead of 5G C-Band Auction
- SEC Proposes Simplified MD&A Disclosure Requirements
- SEC Proposes Accredited Investor and Qualified Institutional Buyer Amendments
- FCC Releases Proposed New Smallsat Licensing Rules
- SEC Seeks Public Comment on Revising and Harmonizing Securities Exempt Offering Regime
- SEC Adopts Simplified Disclosure Requirements
- Google Fined €50 Million by French Authorities for GDPR Violations
- Tax-Influenced Strategies for End-of-Year Deals
Deal Points Short Takes:
Political and Social Advisories:
- France Votes 2022: Presidential Election Results and Implications
- Canada and Germany Elections Review
- Biden Begins: What to Expect from the New Administration
- US 2020 Election: Results and Analysis
- UK Election Results and Brexit Implications
- German Legislative Elections Results and Implications
- Change Comes to France: French Legislative Election Results and Implications
- Brexit Begins