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The Outlook for M&A Activity in Q4 2024

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In a highly anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut on September 18, reducing rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75-5%. This is the first rate cut in four years after interest rates hit a...more

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Key Takeaways From the Fund Finance Association 2024 Global Leadership Summit

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The Pine Cliffs Resort hosted the FFA’s 2024 Global Leadership Summit this week where key players and leaders from across the industry gathered to discuss macroeconomic, geopolitical, policy, legal, regulatory and other...more

Alston & Bird

Structured Finance Spectrum - Summer 2024

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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 the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Report: Reforms to Restore Confidence in the SEC

A number of trade associations (The Business Roundtable, the American Investment Council, The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness of the US Chamber of Commerce, the Investment Company Institute, the Managed Funds...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Missing Miami March 1, 2024 - 13 Takeaways From Miami

More than 1,800 industry players attended the 13th annual Global Fund Finance Symposium that wrapped up yesterday afternoon at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. There was a lot to talk about in terms of market evolution...more

White & Case LLP

Transatlantic M&A bull run set for comeback

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Encouraged by the relative strength of the dollar and improving financing conditions, US bidders are snapping up European assets - Transatlantic M&A was enjoying record-high activity before the war in Ukraine sparked...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Cross-Border M&A Comparison Table

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Cross-border deals are complex and require mastery of multiple disciplines with unique considerations in different regions. Review our table comparing cross-border deal considerations for various topics across the United...more

Hogan Lovells

ESAP: A centralized 'data space' granting easy access to corporate information for investors

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On 23 May 2023, the European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on three proposals jointly creating the European Single Access Point (ESAP) as part of the Capital Markets Union Action Plan. ...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

SoftBank Hit With $20+ Billion Quarterly Loss as Tech Investments Falter

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A largely brutal 2022 for tech stocks has led to a massive $23.4 billion quarterly loss for Masa Son’s SoftBank conglomerate, its largest ever, “driven by poor performance of its flagship tech investments and a weak yen”...more

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All Eyes on July Jobs Report Following Fed Rate Hikes

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Jobs Report Friday! Most economists are expecting a slowdown, and the question is how much the Fed’s newly hawkish approach (aimed at fighting inflation) is seeping into the labor market. Here’s what we’re looking for in the...more

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Another Month of Big Inflation Sends Wall Street Reeling

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No surprise here—inflation continues to dominate the economic conversation. New CPI numbers showed prices rising some 7.5% in January, topping projections by .3% and “climbing at the fastest pace in 40 years and more quickly...more

White & Case LLP

Debt: Outlook for Africa brightens after challenging first half to the year

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Lender caution following Zambia's debt repayment default in 2020 has weighed on African debt issuance, but successful raisings by high profile borrowers show that investor appetite remains resilient - African loan and bond...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Talking Shop: State of the Construction Industry

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Recently, Hank Harris, Ward and Smith Business Consulting Director of Consulting, delivered his take on the factors currently shaping the construction industry and what he anticipates the future will bring. Harris spent...more

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Financial institutions M&A: Stock Exchanges/Trading Venues

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Financial institutions M&A sector trends: stock exchanges/trading venues — H1 2021 and outlook for H2 2021 - Global FMI juggernauts snatch up fund platforms, trading venues and data analytics providers, under the...more

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Top considerations –EMEA Tax trends impacting Private Equity Real Estate in 2021

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White & Case has advised a large number of high-profile international clients on cutting-edge, cross-border and domestic private equity real estate deals, providing valuable strategic tax insight to a broad range of investors...more

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Outlook for Africa brightens after challenging first half to the year

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African loan and bond issuance fell by just under 10% in the first half of 2021, year-on-year, with lenders still jittery after Zambia missed a bond repayment in November 2020 to become the first African sovereign to default...more

Perkins Coie

Quarterly Investment Update - 4th Quarter 2019

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When 2019 began, the U.S. stock market had just hit the bottom of a 20% correction. An escalating trade war and rising interest rate worries were top of mind, and predictions of a looming recession were becoming more common....more

Dechert LLP

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Really Matter

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After an evening checking out my various high school and college yearbooks for any troublesome content, and checking Mom’s photo albums (I’m good on the yearbooks, but there were a couple cowboy and Indian pics from when I...more

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The Luxembourg Stock Exchange launches 2 Professional Segments

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Both the Euro MTF, as well as the Regulated Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange are from now on equipped with their respective Professional Segments reserved to qualified investors, i.e. non-retail investors....more

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Quarterly Investment Update - 3rd Quarter 2018

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Economic Commentary - The U.S. economy continues to show signs of improvement. Unemployment fell to 3.7 percent, and second quarter GDP grew to an annualized rate of 4.2 percent, which is the highest rate of growth since...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - September 2018 #3

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Hester Peirce Remarks at Cato Institute Conference - Hester Peirce made remarks at the Cato Institute’s Fintech Unbound conference on September 12, 2018. Commissioner Peirce commented that securities regulators are too risk...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Regulation Round Up - February 2017

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The FCA and PRA announced changes to enforcement process with the aim of strengthening the transparency and effectiveness of enforcement decision-making processes. Some of the changes have already come into force, the rest...more

Troutman Pepper

Mid-Market Trends - Leveraged Lending and the Current Regulatory Environment

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Financial institutions, institutional investors and liquidity providers to the leveraged loan markets are finding themselves increasingly subject to new regulation in the United States and abroad. Both global and U.S....more

K&L Gates LLP

Dodd-Frank Turns Five, What Comes Next?

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The 2008 credit crisis was the beginning of an era of unprecedented government management of the capital markets. July 21, 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the hallmark congressional response, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Briefing on Regulation A+ Challenge to Extend Though November

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has entered a briefing schedule in Montana’s and Massachusetts’ challenge to Regulation A+. The states’ briefs are due August 26, the SEC’s brief is due...more

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