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The 18th Annual Outlook on the Commercial Real Estate Market, which took place on January 23 in Uptown Charlotte, brought together industry leaders to discuss the current state and projected outlook for commercial real estate...more
Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features a close look at business development companies, an introduction to project...more
Vietnam's growth ambitions - Barely two months into the year, Vietnam's parliament has raised the country's GDP growth target for 2025 from 6.5% to 7% to at least 8%. The ambitious GDP target rides on the back of an...more
The new year has brought with it new funding opportunities from the US government in support of companies developing technologies crucial to national security. On January 2, 2025, the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) of the...more
On September 30, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) announced its first-ever Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to provide loans for technologies that are critical to US national and...more
The growth in partnerships between banks and Fintech companies through Banking as a Service (BaaS) models presents significant opportunities for innovation across the financial services sector. However, these collaborations...more
The drive to achieve a carbon-neutral future is accelerating. Through the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, nations committed to curbing climate change by limiting global temperature increases to no more than 2°C above...more
The Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, as amended, (the "Law") gives Jersey companies a considerable degree of flexibility to fund the purchase (buyback) of their own issued shares from any source, including capital....more
The Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, as amended, (the "Law") includes a simple procedure by which Jersey companies are able to carry out a reduction of capital without obtaining court approval, thereby providing a further...more
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) has issued a document titled: Decision Trees for PFAS – Mitigation Selection in Drinking Water (“DTP”)....more
The SEC recently published its report on the 2024 Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The Forum addresses a range of issues affecting small businesses, including smaller public companies. The...more
Last month, after a meeting with the G20 financing ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that US$3 trillion of additive capital investment will be necessary each year (above and beyond business as usual)...more
Im Schneckentempo zur Energiewende - Ende August hat das Bundesministerium der Finanzen einen Referentenentwurf für ein Zweites Gesetz zur Finanzierung von zukunftssichernden Investitionen (ZuFinG II) vorgelegt. Die...more
In the current political and business environment, companies are taking action to address a range of environmental and social issues. Corporate attitudes have changed since the late 2010s, when environmental, social, and...more
In Women in Private Credit: Talking Trends, we delve into the world of private credit through the lens of eminent women in the field — from professionals at the forefront of industry leadership to our own lawyers. Together,...more
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a final rule adjusting the investment and revenue thresholds for International Entrepreneur Parole program (IEP) eligibility, effective October 1, 2024. The IEP...more
Almost a year after President Biden signed an Executive Order to establish a U.S. outbound investment regime, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) on U.S. outbound...more
Die Energiewende erreicht nun auch die Fondsindustrie (?) - Das Bundesministerium der Finanzen hat am 21. Mai 2024 einen Diskussionsentwurf für ein Gesetz zur Förderung von Investitionen von Fonds in erneuerbare Energien...more
Though 2023 ended in much the same way as it began, with global geopolitical instability and high interest rates, investment in Québec has remained active, particularly in the Montréal area. This post breaks down some of the...more
Proskauer’s Hedge Fund Trading Guide offers a concise, easy-to-read overview of the trading issues and questions we commonly encounter when advising hedge funds and their managers. It is written not only for lawyers, but also...more
Introduced in the 2023-2024 Budget, the new and revamped Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (New CIES) aims at enriching the talent pool and attracting more new capital to Hong Kong. It is one of the eight policy measures...more
The global fintech industry has been buffeted by market headwinds in the last two years, with high inflation, volatile valuations and macroeconomic uncertainty inhibiting investor appetite in the still-young sector. Though...more
The digital assets industry is anticipating the expected first- and second-order effects of the upcoming bitcoin "halving" event expected in April 2024 – when the amount of new bitcoin generated and awarded to bitcoin miners...more
This month, we are excited to feature our client Cultivo, a public benefit corporation, which recently announced that it has raised $14 million in Series A funding to accelerate its mission to unlock investment into...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a virtual FTC Tech Summit focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and AI's impact on competition and consumers on Jan. 25, 2024. The half-day event featured a diverse set of speakers...more