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Securities Class Action Filings: 2024 Midyear Assessment - Summary of Trend Filings

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This is an excerpt from Securities Class Action Filings 2024 Midyear Assessment - This figure highlights recent trend categories that have appeared in core filing activity. See the Glossary for definitions of each trend...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

What Legal Trends are Impacting MicroCap Issuers in 2024?

The legal and regulatory landscape for MicroCap investing is ever-evolving, including challenges involving compliance with the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and securities exchanges including...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

HKEX Initiatives Present Opportunities Even in a Down Market

Like other global financial centers, Hong Kong has seen falling IPO volumes and volatile markets in 2022 in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and rising geopolitical tensions, including between China and the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

What’s the Deal? – Initial Public Offerings: An Introduction

Here’s the deal: - An initial public offering (“IPO”) refers to the initial offering by a company of a class of its equity securities, usually with a contemporaneous listing of that class of securities on a national...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2021 - Samsung Shakes Up Leadership, Consolidates Business Units

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Samsung surprised the business world today by replacing the “heads of its three major business units and merg[ing] the company’s mobile and consumer electronics businesses into a single unit.” The moves mean the South Korean...more

Jones Day

SEC Threatens to Slap SPACs

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The use of SPACs has reached unprecedented levels, but recent pronouncements from the SEC may signal heightened enforcement and litigation risk for SPACs, as well as their sponsors, officers and directors, and auditors. The...more

Morgan Lewis

Singapore Is Looking to Bring In SPACS

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The Singapore Exchange has launched a consultation on proposed rules governing special purpose acquisition companies. SPACS DEFINED - Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are shell or “blank cheque” entities...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Warns SPAC Targets the Road May be Difficult

The SEC issued two pieces of guidance on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs.  One piece, styled as a statement by Paul Munter, Acting Chief Accountant, speaks to financial reporting and auditing considerations of...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Newly Approved Direct Listing Capital Raising Alternative On Hold Pending SEC Review

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For a fleeting moment, companies had the ability to raise capital on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in connection with a direct listing (“primary direct listing”). On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange...more

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