WORD OF THE DAY® for Hedge Funds – Accelerated Share Repurchase
Following the release of initial guidance in the form Notice 2023-2, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and IRS issued proposed regulations (the Proposed Regulations) under the Section 4501 stock repurchase excise...more
In our blog post dated August 22, 2022, we discussed the one percent (1%) excise tax on certain stock repurchase transactions by certain publicly traded corporations enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the...more
On May 2, 2017, Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a purportedly derivative and putative class action brought by a minority stockholder of software company VMware, Inc. (“VMware”), a subsidiary...more