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Shall we summer in Saint Tropez, darling? Ban for non-essential travel into the EU to be lifted soon

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted on 3 May ‘21: “Time to revive EU tourism industry & for cross-border friendships to rekindle – safely. We propose to welcome again vaccinated...

Author(s): Amna Arshad, Elske Raedts, Ana Bruggink

SEC Scrutiny Spooked The SPAC Market, But Won't Stifle It

The following article was published by Law360 on May 7, 2021. It was written by Benjamin Horney. Click here to view.The pace of special purpose acquisition company initial public offerings and subsequ...

Author(s): Andrea Basham, Kimberly Zelnick, Michael Levitt

  • spacs
  • m&a
  • corporate governance
  • investigations
  • white-collar defense
  • capital markets and securities

FTC Pitches a Shutout Against Impax in 5th Circuit Pay for Delay Appeal

The FTC scored a win on the Fifth Circuit diamond in its first challenge of a reverse payment settlement between branded and generic drug makers fully litigated since the Supreme Court’s 2013 landmark...

Author(s): Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, Laura Onken, Kaylynn Noethlich

  • antitrust and competition
  • litigation
  • intellectual property

Tower Versus Tower: Implications of SPAC Shareholder Litigation for the D&O Insurance World

Historically, bubbles are followed by suits. After the Dot-Com Boom came the Dot-Com Bust, along with years of shareholder litigation. Ditto for the Credit Crunch. As we emerge from The Lockdown, SPAC...

Author(s): Boris Feldman

  • spacs
  • litigation
  • m&a
  • capital markets and securities
  • d&o insurance
  • shareholder litigation

Cross Border Restructurings and Releases of Non-Debtor Guarantors: Chapter 15 Update

Third-party releases, particularly releases of non-debtor affiliated guarantors, are commonly a critical feature of a successful cross-border restructuring.  In U.S. restructurings, where New York law...

Author(s): Madlyn Primoff, Alex Rich

  • restructuring and insolvency

“Bridgegate’s” Shadow: US Department of Justice Asks Second Circuit to Reverse Insider Trading Conviction After Supreme Court Rules in Kelly v. US

Earlier this month, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed an unusual appellate brief in which the prosecutors stated that the SDNY “is constrained to confess erro...

Author(s): Daniel Braun, Kimberly Zelnick, Mark Goldberg

  • investigations
  • white-collar defense
  • litigation
  • capital markets and securities
  • financial institutions
  • financial crime
  • market abuse

Do US tax reform proposals signal a green light for OECD global minimum tax plans?

After three years of opposition and positioning that any global tax reforms be voluntary for US corporations under the Trump administration and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, the Biden administration, Tr...

Author(s): Claude Stansbury, Robert Scarborough

  • tax
  • corporate

Comparing the EU’s Representative Action Directive to US Class Action Procedures

This fifth blog in our series examining the European Union Representative Actions Directive (the Directive) considers how lawsuits proceeding pursuant to the Directive might compare to class action li...

Author(s): Linda Martin, Henry Hutten

  • united states
  • europe
  • mass claims

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