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ArticlePreparing Your 2024 Form 20-FThis client update highlights key considerations for the preparation of your 2024 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments and continued...United StatesCorporate/Commercial LawDavis Polk & Wardwell
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ArticleYour 2024 Form 10-K RoadmapCompanies continue to have their hands full addressing new disclosure mandates against the backdrop of an active SEC enforcement agenda. United StatesCorporate/Commercial LawDavis Polk & Wardwell
ArticleOver 55 Of The Nation's Leading Law Firms Respond To Investment Company Act Lawsuits Targeting The SPAC IndustryRecently a purported shareholder of certain special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) initiated derivative lawsuits asserting that the SPACs are investment companies...United StatesCorporate/Commercial LawHughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
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ArticleMaples Group Deal Announcement - Hong Kong - August 2021Please find below details of some of the notable transactions on which Maples and Calder, the Maples Group's law firm in Hong Kong...GlobalFinance and BankingMaples Group
ArticleOf Roman Gods And Financial Reform - Janus And The Dodd-Frank Act: Looking Back, Looking ForwardIn Roman mythology, Janus is the god with two faces. One face looks backward, the other into the future, a duality that neatly serves our consideration of the range of views expressed about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) passed one year ago. United KingdomAccounting and AuditDeloitte
ArticleStatement of Grounds for Reference to the TribunalOn 24 August 2004, just four months after the commencement of its investigation into the matter, the FSA publicised a Final Notice issued to the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c ("STT") and the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company NV ("Royal Dutch") ("the Final Notice") (Tab 1) imposing a financial penalty of £17 million for market abuse and breach of the Listing Rules in respect of alleged misstatements of the proved reserves of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies ("Shell"). United KingdomFinance and BankingHerbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
ArticleMadrid Annual Report 2017: Firm Re-EngineeringThe workflow for law firms in Madrid is looking much healthier than it did 12 months ago – however, this is posing difficulties for managing partners who now have to consider the best way to...SpainLaw Department PerformanceIberian Lawyer
ArticleStructured Thoughts: News For The Financial Services Community, Volume 5, Issue 6 - August 12, 2014Under Article 40 of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation the European Securities and Markets Authority was given powers to temporarily prohibit or restrict the marketing, distribution or sale of certain financial instruments. United StatesFinance and BankingMorrison Foerster
ArticleEthical Issues Often Encountered In Securities MattersUnited StatesFinance and BankingBallard Spahr LLP
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