Woodruff Sawyer is a market leader when it comes to placing D&O insurance for companies going public through IPOs and direct listings. Experience matters for these types of transactions, and this is especially the case when...more
My partner Jane Njavro is such an expert when it comes to international D&O issues. In this guest post she gives us a briefing on key issues when it comes to placing insurance for foreign subsidiaries of US companies. – Priya...more
Non-US companies are attracted to going public on a US exchange for a variety of reasons, such as access to capital, increased liquidity, and in some cases, more flexible rules and regulations compared to other markets....more
Multinationals continue to find themselves subject to expanding laws and regulations across the world. Add to this the heightened frequency of cross-border cooperation between regulators and you have a recipe for increased...more
Becoming a public company is a big undertaking for any private company; there is added complexity for foreign filers, which is to say private issuers incorporated under the laws of a country other than the United States. One...more
In our work with multinational corporations, we routinely place insurance programs with locally admitted policies around the world, including Russia. However, on March 15, 2022, Vladimir Putin signed a law prohibiting...more
As predicted in last year’s Looking Ahead, D&O insurance rates continued to rise in 2021. However, there are early signs that the market is in transition and that some relief may be on the way. As documented in this year’s...more