29 Mar, 2021 WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public By Joel I. Papernik WeWork may now be able to go public by merging with a SPAC. Apparently, it had not been successful effectuating an IPO earlier. SPACs, of...
29 Mar, 2021 President Biden: don't throw out the good stuff the previous administration did simply because it had the name Trump on it! By Charles A. Samuels It's perfectly understandable that a new president, a new party in power, a new and quite different agenda and a government traumatized...
25 Mar, 2021 Biotech Industry Has a Record Year for Venture Financing By Jeremy D. Glaser In a record year for venture capital financing, biotech's gathered a large share of the total financing and had a record year as an...
22 Mar, 2021 Republican SEC Commissioner Questions SEC Focus on Climate Disclosures By Jacob H. Hupart SEC Commissioner Elad Roisman, one of the two Republican appointees currently serving as a commissioner of the SEC, recently delivered a...
22 Mar, 2021 Piercing the Dynasty Trust: a Test of Federalism in the Making By Daniel T. Pascucci Professors Michael Heller and James Salzman, Columbia and UCLA law respectively, add their voices to growing alarm over the emergence of...
19 Mar, 2021 The Victims Were Not Just Women; They Were Asian American Women. By Narges M. Kakalia In the 1970s, a District Court in Missouri held that a class of Black women could not obtain any form of relief for discrimination...
18 Mar, 2021 Bolstering Social Cost of Carbon in Regulatory Analyses a Game Changer--but Not Always for the Better By Charles A. Samuels There is something very significant going on in the federal regulatory world to which a lot of people need to pay attention, and not just...
17 Mar, 2021 Antitrust Cases Are Hard But Hindsight Is Easy By Joseph M. Miller Politico published a bombshell article about the FTC's decision not to sue Google in 2013, complete with internal deliberative staff...
17 Mar, 2021 Acting SEC Chair Invites Public Comment on Climate Change Disclosure Rules By Jacob H. Hupart Acting SEC Chair Alison Lee has invited public comment on revised rules for climate change disclosure, with an eye to issuing a revised...
16 Mar, 2021 Where the Kick-Flip Meets the Road: How to Protect your Startup in M&A Discussions By Stephen M. Osborn This article in The Information highlights the risks of startups negotiating acqui-hire M&A deals against much larger companies. ...
16 Mar, 2021 Reasons to be Optimistic By Daniel B. Guggenheim The last week has been a roller coaster of emotions for a lot of people in Los Angeles. On the one hand, there were somber recognitions...
15 Mar, 2021 Significant ESG Remarks by Acting Director Coates (SEC Division of Corporate Finance) By Jacob H. Hupart On March 11, John Coates, the Acting Director of the Division of Corporate Finance at the SEC (and a former professor at Harvard Law...
08 Mar, 2021 What You Need to Know about the Corporate Transparency Act By Joel I. Papernik Included in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, which was passed over then by President Trump’s veto, was something called...
08 Mar, 2021 Post-Brexit, Choosing a Venue for Cross-Border Asset Recovery Disputes Takes on Renewed Importance By Daniel T. Pascucci For decades, creditors looking to enforce large cross-border judgments would frequently seek to establish jurisdiction in UK courts. ...
05 Mar, 2021 Do you Know Why Your Employees Come to Work (even if it is in their pajamas)? By Stephen M. Osborn Internal communication has never been more important than during the COVID-19 crisis and the work-at-home reality. My wife Meredith was...
05 Mar, 2021 SEC Creates Climate-Focused Task Force By Jacob H. Hupart The SEC has announced the formation of a "Climate and ESG Task Force" in the Division of Enforcement, led by the Acting Deputy Director...