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Freshfields Represents Jay Clayton and Joe Grundfest in Amicus Brief in Direct Listing Case before the Supreme Court

On Friday, February 3, 2023, a securities litigation team from Freshfields’ Silicon Valley office filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of defendants in Slack Technologies LLC, e...

Author(s): Boris Feldman, Doru Gavril, Rebecca Lockert, Olivia Rosen

  • litigation

SEC Commissioner Crenshaw Suggests Potential Reforms to Regulation D

In the Alan B. Levenson Keynote speech this week at the 50th anniversary Securities Regulation Institute (“SRI”), SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw suggested a number of potential reforms to Regul...

Author(s): Sarah Solum, Pamela Marcogliese, Scott Blumenkranz, Shira Oyserman, Jennifer Burrow

  • sri
  • regd
  • securities
  • capital markets and securities
  • corporate
  • corporate governance

Life sciences - what to expect in 2023

We anticipate a year of reserved optimism in the life sciences industry for 2023. Despite uncertain financial markets and pricing challenges in the US, we expect an uptick in transactional activity, w...

Author(s): Adam Golden, Harriet Hanks

The Drug Pricing Landscape in 2023: Renewed Pressure for Pricing Reform

For over a decade, industry watchdogs, patient groups and various lawmakers have been calling for drug pricing reform—initially with little success. 2023, however, may be the year in which supporters ...

Author(s): Adam Golden, Tanny Kang, Emily Parfitt, Kristen Riemenschneider

  • m&a

2022 De-SPAC Debrief

We're pleased to announce Freshfields' 2022 De-SPAC Debrief: A comprehensive review of all 102 de-SPAC transactions that closed in 2022. 2022, a challenging year for SPACs, was also the 2nd biggest ye...

Author(s): Michael Levitt, Valerie Ford Jacob, Sebastian Fain

  • spacs
  • de-spacs
  • capital markets and securities
  • m&a

Privilege Rules Will Remain the Same for Now

On Monday, the Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted the writ of certiorari of In re Grand Jury, a case about the scope of attorney-client privilege, which we wrote about earlier this month...

Author(s): David Livshiz, Jennifer Loeb, Scott Eisman

  • litigation
  • white-collar defense

New US Merger Control Reportability Thresholds, New Merger Control Filing Fees, and New Interlocking Directorate Enforcement Thresholds for 2023

On January 23, 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual updates to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act reportability thresholds and Clayton Act Section 8 enforcement thresholds as ...

Author(s): Bruce McCulloch, Meytal McCoy, Charles Ramsey

2023 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Highlights

The 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, held in-person for the first time in three years, was a tale of two cities – marked by, on the one hand, unprecedented downpour in the region and ind...

Author(s): Sora Park, Emily Parfitt, Tanny Kang, Adam Golden, Vinita Kailasanath, Kristen Riemenschneider

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