February 23, 2015 Private Equity Alert Periodic Regulatory Filings and Annual Compliance Obligations Applicable to Private Fund Sponsors By David Wohl and Venera Ziegler We would like to remind our private equity clients of important regulatory filings and compliance obligations incumbent upon private fund sponsors during 2015. Where applicable, we have indicated the deadline by...
CLIENT MEMORANDUM Will Anti-Reliance Provisions Preclude Extra-Contractual Fraud Claims? Answers Differ in Delaware, New York, and California January 11, 2016 Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representations in the agreement are the sole representations on which the parties relied in entering into the...
Recent Accolades Weil is a leader in the marketplace for sophisticated, global legal services. The Firm is consistently recognized by publications and data providers that cover the legal and financial industries for its success across practice areas and departments. Awards and Achievements Firm and Practice Two Dealmakers of the Year Capital Markets Practice Group of the Year Best in...
Prominent Matters Recognized by clients, the media, and professional commentators as best in class, Weil’s lawyers are known for the clarity, timeliness, and effectiveness of their counsel, and as a result, have become their clients’ call of first resort for solutions to their toughest legal challenges. Weil’s one-firm approach ensures that the Firm works...
November 2015 Alert Modern Slavery Act 2015 Anti-money Laundering Impact in the Regulated Sector Background Following Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“the Act”) coming into force (to read our article on this, please click here), a number of new reporting requirements have been introduced for companies with a ‘footprint’ in the UK (defined as...
Practical guidance at Lexis Practice Advisor® Lexis Practice Advisor® offers beginning-to-end practical guidance to support attorneys’ work in specific transactional practice areas. Grounded in the real-world experience of expert practitioner-authors, our guidance ranges from practice notes and legal analysis to checklists and annotated forms. In addition, everything...
December 2015 Alert Facilitating Tax Evasion New Corporate Offence Modelled on The Bribery Act Summary In the March 2015 Budget the Chancellor announced tough new sanctions for tax evasion, intended to have a deterrent effect. After a period of consultation, the intention to proceed with these measures was confirmed in the 2015 Autumn Statement. In summary, the measures to be implemented...
JANUARY 2016 VOL. 16-1 PRATT’S ENERGY LAW REPORT PRATT’S ENERGY LAW REPORT EDITOR’S NOTE: WELCOME 2016! Victoria Prussen Spears DO YOU DARE TO FLARE? A NORTH DAKOTA FIELD OFFICE PROVIDES A VIEW INTO THE FEDERAL REGULATORY FUTURE Mark S. Barron JANUARY 2016 FERC MODIFIES FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR MARKET-BASED RATE SELLERS AND CLARIFIES GEN-TIE PRIORITY RIGHTS...
January 26, 2016 What’s New for the 2016 Proxy Season Engagement, Transparency, Proxy Access and More While shareholders have a wide spectrum of views on corporate objectives, the time horizon for realizing these objectives and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, there is an emerging consensus that – regardless of size, industry or profitability–...
GIR Global Investigations Review Global Investigations Review The law and practice of international investigations Avoiding data protection pitfalls: Spotlight on cross-border investigations Global Investigations Review GIR The law and practice of international investigations investigations 7 January 2016 Credit: Thijs ter Haar on Flickr ( CC BY 2.0) The EU’s recent decision to...
Implementation of Iran Nuclear Deal Leads to Partial Lifting of U.S. and EU Sanctions - January 2016
January 2016 International Trade Currents Implementation of Iran Nuclear Deal Leads to Partial Lifting of U.S. and EU Sanctions By Ted Posner, Peter King, Simon Taylor, Timothy Welch, Nicole Prunetti and Dana Watts On July 14, 2015, the Iran nuclear deal – formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – was concluded among China, France, Germany, Russia,...
January 2016 Alert Antitrust/Competition HSR Act Filing Threshold Revisions By John Sipple, Vadim Brusser, Alexis Brown-Reilly and Jonathan Cheng On January 21, 2016, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revisions to the jurisdictional thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act), which will become effective 30 days after publication in the...
February 4, 2016 Private Equity Alert Regulatory Developments and Annual Compliance Obligations Applicable to Private Fund Sponsors By David Wohl, Venera Ziegler and Walter Turturro Through a growing number of enforcement actions, speeches by senior officials and written guidance, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) has sent a clear message that the fiduciary obligations and...
February 2016 Alert Technology & Intellectual Property Key Technology and Privacy Trends for 2016 Barry Fishley 2016 is set to be a year of change with the introduction of a raft of legislation which will impact all organisations, including most notably, technology-focused companies. Of particular note will be the much-awaited General Data Protection Regulations and the Network and...
February 16, 2016 Heads Up for the 2016 Proxy Season Companies See Victory on Excluding “Substantially Implemented” Proxy Access Proposals Companies that have adopted proxy access and those that are considering whether, and on what terms, to adopt proxy access now have greater clarity on when they may exclude proxy access proposals submitted by shareholders. The Staff of the...