It has been hard to keep track of everything that has happened during the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.

Before 2013, issuers were prohibited from using any means of general solicitation or advertising when raising capital in the private markets.

I am pleased to share with you the results of the third TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's global benchmark mapping the scale and trends of the pro bono legal sector internationally.

What evidence do civil plaintiffs seek?

On January 11, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) held its first open meeting of 2012 to consider rulemakings under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 (Dodd- Frank).

It wasn't so long ago that mergers and acquisitions were the axes around which London's legal universe evolved. Indeed, elite UK law firms spent 2006 and the first half of 2007 basking in the radiance of record-breaking M&A activity.

Corporate compliance officers might feel like they've been put through the whirlwind lately, with the Trump Administration issuing one sweeping announcement about corporate enforcement after another.

Welcome to the latest edition of our Quarterly Corporate Update covering recent developments in the British Virgin Islands.

Approximately 70 companies in Canada, including a majority of the TSX 60, held a say-on-pay vote in 2011, making it the first year that a significant number of management advisory votes on executive compensation were submitted to shareholders.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has published a revised debt research conflicts of interest proposal (the Revised Proposal) in Regulatory Notice 12-09 (the Notice).

In late 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Citigroup Global Markets (Citigroup) in connection with its 2007 structuring and marketing of a $1 billion CDO.

Notwithstanding the recent Cajun Conti policyholder victory in the Louisiana Court of Appeals, a federal district court judge in New Orleans has sided with the numerous federal rulings...

European lawyers are keen to start working with the continent's startups and tech companies on their M&A strategies as early in the cycle as possible, experts said.

In conversation with leading practitioners, Barnaby Merrill considers the impact of Covid-19 on private equity funds and predictions for the market in 2021...

The new EU Prospectus Directive (the Prospectus Directive) has been published December 31, 2003 in the Official Journal of the European Community with certain of its provisions taking effect as of this date. The Prospectus Directive is the first directive to be implemented under the EU Financial Services Action Plan and EU member states are expected to bring it into legal effect by July 1, 2005.

Mastercard has announced it will be acquiring Toronto-based fintech company Ethoca.

How foreign private equity sponsors and their lenders are finding solutions to local law structuring issues.

With the implementation of Ministerial Decree dated May 11, 2011 (the Implementing Decree), issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, and the subsequent publication on July 11, 2011 of the first Italian Trademark Bulletin (the Trademark Bulletin), the procedure of opposition against the registration of Italian trademarks — which has been provided by the Italian legislation for over 10 years3, but never entered into force due to the lack of implementing measures4 — finally becomes operation

Including a receivables securitisation tranche when financing (and refinancing) highly leveraged businesses that generate trade receivables has become popular for several reasons.

There has historically been a view that R&D companies (such as technology and life science companies) are not typically targeted by hedge fund activists, in part due to factors such as the complexity of their businesses and their dependence on founding shareholders.