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11 Nov 2016, 4:07 am by Kevin LaCroix
In the following guest post, attorneys from the Paul Weiss law firm review and analyze a November 3, 2016  Second Circuit decision (here)  in which the appellate court held that the standard pre-IPO lock-up agreements between a company’s pre-IPO shareholders and the company’s lead IPO underwriters do not make those parties a “group” within Section 13(d) of the ’34 Act, and therefore that the lock-up agreement alone is insufficient to trigger Section 16(b)… [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 11:30 pm by Brooke
Evans' The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914.Caliphate: The History of an Idea by Hugh Kennedy is reviewed in The Washington Post.The New Yorker reviews Esther Schor's Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language.The New Rambler Review has a review of Benjamin Straumann's Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution.A newly-released collection of Stuart Hall's… [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 6:27 am
Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Tags: Antitrust, Boards of Directors, Clayton Act, Conflicts of interest, DOJ, Foreign firms, Interlocking boards,International governance, Safe harbor, Securities enforcement, UK SEC Proposal to Streamline Disclosure Requirements Posted by Paul A. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 4:53 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Karp 212-373-3316 bkarp@paulweiss.com   Daniel J. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 6:22 am
Posted by Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School, on Friday, July 8, 2016 Tags: Adverse selection, Bank debt, Banks, Capital requirements, Deposit insurance, FDIC, Financial institutions,Financial regulation, Insurance regulation, Liquidity, Moral hazard, Mortgage lending, Public interest, Risk-taking,Systemic risk Shareholder Proposal Developments During the 2016 Proxy Season Posted by Elizabeth Ising, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Friday, July 8, 2016 Tags: Boards of Directors,… [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 6:14 am
Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Saturday, July 2, 2016 Tags: Disgorgement, SEC, SEC enforcement, SEC investigations, Securities enforcement, Statute of limitations, U.S. federal courts Pillars of Sustainability Leadership Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, Inc., on Sunday, July 3, 2016 Tags: Boards of Directors, Disclosure, Engagement, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Executive Compensation,Incentives, Innovation, Management, Pay for performance,… [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 6:05 am
Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Sunday, June 12, 2016 Tags: Contracts, Corporate fraud, Fannie Mae, Financial crisis, Financial institutions, Financial regulation, FIRREA,Freddie Mac, Misconduct, Subprime securities, U.S. federal courts When Are Weak Property Rights Optimal? [read post]
12 Jun 2016, 6:43 am
Karp, Dan Kramer, Jane O’Brien, Walter Rieman, and Richard A. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 6:15 am
Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Sunday, June 5, 2016 Tags: Class actions, Exchange Act, Section 10(b), Securities Act, Securities litigation, Securities regulation, Statute of limitations, Tolling, U.S. federal courts Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management Posted by Suraj Srinivasan, Harvard Business School, on Monday, June 6, 2016 Tags: Institutional Investors, Management, No-action letters, Proxy access, Proxy contests, Proxy voting, Rule… [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 2:49 pm by Kevin LaCroix
On May 23, 2016, in an interesting development in one of the more high profile lawsuits to arise out of the financial crisis, the Second Circuit reversed the $1.27 billion civil penalty that Southern District of New York Judge Jed Rakoff  imposed on Countrywide and several related defendants in a case involving the company’s sale of mortgages to government sponsored entities. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 6:19 am
Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 Tags: Broker-dealers, Exchange Act, Financial institutions, Jurisdiction, Liability standards, Regulation SHO, SEC,Shareholder suits, Shareholder voting, Short sales, State law, Supreme Court, U.S. federal courts Holding Activists and Proxy Advisory Firms Accountable? [read post]
28 May 2016, 6:36 am
Karp is chairman and partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. [read post]