This article offers a comprehensive analysis of acquisition finance in Latin America, focusing on the balance between efficient financing and payment certainty in structuring such finances.

Licensing Link is a periodic publication that will keep you informed on hot topics and new developments in state licensing laws, and provide practice tips and primers on important issues related to state licensing across the spectrum of asset classes and financial services activities. We hope you’ll join us for future editions.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins outlined a vision for streamlining public company disclosure requirements by implementing a materiality overlay to Regulation S-K and reforming the shareholder proposal process. His remarks at the Society for Corporate Governance Conference emphasized reducing immaterial information in public filings while encouraging companies to exercise judgment in determining what investors truly need to know.

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has announced a significant policy shift regarding shareholder proposals under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8, ending its practice of responding to company requests to exclude proposals from proxy statements. This decision follows a trial period during the 2025-2026 proxy season and reflects Chairman Paul Atkins' view that staff intervention in these matters is unnecessary, allowing the Division to redirect resources toward other critical regulatory functions.

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has issued an exemptive order reducing the minimum tender offer period from 20 to 10 business days for qualifying equity securities transactions.

On May 4, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) submitted a rulemaking proposal to the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (“OIRA”)...

This newsletter provides financial services professionals with critical updates on state-level regulatory and enforcement activities across the United States. Explore recent legislative changes, court decisions, and compliance developments that impact banking, lending, and commercial financing operations.

On June 30, 2015, Brazil and the United States signed a Totalization Agreement that was internalized in Brazilian legislation through Decree No. 9,422 and enacted on June 25, 2018

On July 12, 2022, Brazil's National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) published Resolution No. 881/2022.

On February 1, 2021, ANPD published its strategic plans for 2021-2023. The document presents ANPD's three major goals, the related strategic actions and the timetable for those actions.

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Brazil Tax Round-Up, our newsletter on tax-related developments in the country.

The Hong Kong Labour Department publish Reference Guidelines on Statutory Minimum Wage.

On April 8, 2026, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) agreed that it would not object to a foreign issuer’s...

After more than 50 years, the Securities and Exchange Commission has rescinded its controversial "no-deny" policy that prevented defendants from publicly contesting allegations after settling enforcement actions.