This alert provides a comparison of the options now available for an issuer seeking to access the UK's equity capital markets, with a focus on the new "High Growth Segment" of the London Stock Exchange's Main Market.
April 12, 2013
Treasury officials have recently suggested that the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) may soon designate the first round of systemically significant nonbank financial companies (Nonbank SIFIs).
April 11, 2013
Throughout the first few months of 2013, each standing committee in the House of Representatives drafted and distributed its oversight agenda for the next two years.
April 2, 2013
On 18 March 2013, the European Commission issued an updated explanatory note on its procedures during unannounced inspections, commonly referred to as "dawn raids".
April 2, 2013
Washington, D.C. associate Stacie Fletcher is the author of “Inside EPA's Plan For Startups, Shutdowns And Malfunctions” [PDF] published by Law360 at www.law360.com on April 2, 2013.
April 2, 2013
Los Angeles partners Marcellus McRae and Kahn Scolnick are the authors of “Case Assessment and Evaluation” [PDF] that ran in the April 2013 issue of Practical Law The Journal.
April 1, 2013
The current legal regime which applies to the assessment of technology transfer arrangements under EU antitrust rules is about to undergo some significant changes by this time next year.
April 1, 2013
Los Angeles partner Marcellus McRae, and associates Katherine Smith and Antonio Raimundo are the authors of "Scope of Employment" [PDF] published in the April 2013 issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine.
April 1, 2013
San Francisco of counsel Winston Chan and associate Vanessa Pastora are the authors of “For Skilled Nursing and Nursing Facilities, Compliance Counts” [PDF] published in the April 2013 issue of Compliance Today.
April 1, 2013
Partners Jonathan Dickey and Michael Li-Ming Wong, and associate Nicola McMillan are the authors of “The Devil’s in the Disclosures: Compliance After Panther Partners” [PDF] published in the April 2013 issue of Insights.
April 1, 2013
London partner Patrick Doris and associate Mark Handley are the authors of “Letting Iran Off the Hook” [PDF] published by The Lawyer on April 1, 2013.
April 1, 2013
On 13 March 2013, it was announced that Philips Electronics and Funai Electric have lodged the first application for merger control review with the supra-national COMESA Competition Commission (CCC), since the vesting of merger review powers in that body in January this year. Practitioners hope that this review, which in many ways can be seen as a test case, will help clarify several key aspects of COMESA's newly introduced merger control practices and procedures.The COMESA Competition Commission COMESA is the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. It was formed in 1994 with a view to promoting economic development, as well as peace and security in the region. Currently it comprises 19 member states.
March 29, 2013
As the Supreme Court accepts additional cases for review and issues new opinions, Gibson Dunn's Supreme Court Round-Up is summarizing the opinions the Court has already released, the issues presented in cases that will be argued, and other key developments. Spearheaded by former Solicitor General Theodore B.
March 29, 2013
Our 2012 Antitrust Merger Enforcement Update and Outlook reported on a number of emerging trends and initiatives by antitrust enforcers around the world.
March 21, 2013
Having transformed U.S. bank regulation, Dodd-Frank implementation is now reshaping bank corporate governance. Recent rulemakings and proposals by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) point to a far more prescriptive approach to corporate governance for significant bank holding companies and significant foreign banking organizations with U.S.
March 21, 2013
On March 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a putative class representative may not evade federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA") by attempting to stipulate that the class will not seek to recover more than $5 million. In an opinion authored by Justice Breyer in Standard Fire Insurance Co.
March 20, 2013
Washington, D.C. partner F. Joseph Warin and associate Maura Logan are the authors of “Disclosing Pending FCPA Investigations” [PDF] published in the March 20, 2013 issue of The Review of Securities & Commoditites Regulation.
March 20, 2013
On February 28, 2013, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Chancery Court issued a rare bench ruling rejecting a disclosure-only, negotiated settlement of an M&A stockholder lawsuit.
March 18, 2013
Palo Alto and New York partner Jonathan Dickey is the author of “Plaintiffs Lawyers Target Delaware Corporations on ‘Say-on-Pay’ Disclosures” [PDF] published in the March 18, 2013 issue of the Delaware Business Court Insider.
March 18, 2013
This alert provides a summary of certain principles of English law and UK and European regulation applicable to UK-listed public companies and their shareholders that may affect shareholder activism, namely (i) stake-building, (ii) shareholders' rights to require companies to hold general meetings, (iii) shareholders' rights to propose resolutions at annual general meetings and (iv) recent developments in these and related areas.
March 15, 2013