26 Feb, 2021 Women-led startups are disproportionately successful, and good for the economy; so why aren’t they being funded? By Narges M. Kakalia Women-led startups deliver higher returns than their counterparts. Almost twice as much revenue per dollar invested. And while they...
25 Feb, 2021 SPACs are an Increasingly Attractive Option for Biotech Companies By Jeremy D. Glaser Biotechs generally need access to a lot of capital in order to bring their therapeutics to market. The traditional IPO route was the...
25 Feb, 2021 Early-Stage Venture Backed Companies Can Benefit from a SPAC Merger By Jeremy D. Glaser There have been a record number of SPACs formed in 2020 and the first two months of 2021. The number of SPACs looking for good merger...
25 Feb, 2021 Auditing the Inclusion Tax - Systematic Racism in the Legal Profession By Matthew T. Simpson Its annual performance review season at our firm and as I take intentional steps to counteract my own implicit biases when writing...
25 Feb, 2021 SEC Announces Focus on Climate Change Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart In one of the first public statements issued by the SEC during the Biden Administration, Acting Chair Lee announced that the SEC would...
25 Feb, 2021 The Semiconductor Crisis Affects a Lot More than Shortages for the Automobile Industry By Charles A. Samuels A perverse combination of economic effects and forecasts related to the pandemic and clumsy trade moves in the last Administration have...
24 Feb, 2021 Will what's good for the Goose, in this case Guam, be good for everyone else? By Jeff Porter No provision of the murky Federal Superfund statute is more murky than Section 113, the applicable statutes of limitations. For decades...
23 Feb, 2021 Companies Put the Best Face on Covid-19’s Financial Impact By Joel I. Papernik The Securities and Exchange Commission has, for a very long time, reminded issuers of the need to disclose negative information along...
23 Feb, 2021 A Season for the Fraudster By Mintz The volatile economic and market conditions of the past 12 months have left many seeking promising returns from what they believe are...
23 Feb, 2021 Initial Climate Change Regulations By Jacob H. Hupart The Biden Administration's focus on climate change and its impacts is beginning to be reflected in government policy. Climate change...
23 Feb, 2021 Really? Retreating from the Commonwealth's Capital is a Tough Sell! By Jeff Porter A new study tells us what we already knew -- the coastal communities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are going to suffer...
22 Feb, 2021 Clinical Trials Are Moving Out of the Lab and Into People’s Homes By Joel I. Papernik The already substantial collaboration between tech and medicine should be encouraged and financed post-pandemic to make conduct of...
22 Feb, 2021 It's Time to Reassess Your Risk Factors By Mintz With the annual reporting season upon us, it's time for public companies to reassess their risk factor disclosures, particularly in light...
20 Feb, 2021 The IPO Market Remains Strong By Jeremy D. Glaser The ability of companies to go pubic via an initial public offering is very cyclical. When the market is on the number of IPOs skyrockets...
19 Feb, 2021 But the very end was sudden, if this really is the end. By Jeff Porter Superfund cases can go on for a bit. In this one, EPA issued a Record of Decision in 2012 selecting a remedy for the Centredale Manor...
18 Feb, 2021 So Much More to Do in Cancer Research By Joel I. Papernik Precision Medicine is a continuing new frontier in cancer research. New samples and additional cell lines have been created. The robust...