Accountancy Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

FRP Corporate Finance has advised food and beverage (F&B) market research agency, Cambridge Market Research (Cambridge MR) on the sale to Food Innovation Solutions Group (FIS Group). It is expected that FIS Group will double its share of the research market as a result of the deal.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I like to make a difference : I do not expect my students to agree with all or even much of what I have to say, but I would like to think that I sometimes change the way they think about finance, and perhaps even affect their choice of professions.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2024

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise. trillion in 2023.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 22, 2025

This post is based on their recent paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This post is based on their working paper.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Today, the Staff in the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission published one new and one revised Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (C&DI) under Regulation 13D-G. This post is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell memorandum by Ms. Dreisiger, Mr. Hearn, Ms. Rodgin Cohen , Robert W.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 13, 2024

The SEC’s Director of Corporation Finance, Erik Gerding, recently issued two statements regarding a public company’s disclosure obligations in response to a cybersecurity incident. Kurt von Moltke are Partners at Jenner & Block LLP. This post is based on a Jenner & Block memorandum by Ms.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 3, 2023

Assess the Impact of SEC Staff Comments The staff of the Disclosure Review Program (DRP) in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has remained quite active. This post is based on their Skadden memorandum. 1] This uptick in comment letters reversed the downward trend of recent years.

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Global Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

For years, alternative financing models have been changing the way companies access cash. Now, fintech is offering innovations, from subscription and fee-based online lending marketplaces to blockchain, that are changing the alternative financing landscape itself. trillion in 2024 and forecast that it will reach $5.3

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 30, 2023

Mayer Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland; and Chester Spatt is Pamela R. Dunn Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. and Kenneth B.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 27, 2023

It is no exaggeration to say that over its roughly forty-year history, private equity has revolutionized both corporate finance and corporate governance.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 13, 2024

Posted by Jillian Grennan (UC Berkeley), on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Editor's Note: Jillian Grennan is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Finance and Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Harvey , and Shivaram Rajgopal.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 20, 2022

With Staff Legal Bulletin 14L, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance Staff realigned its approach for determining whether a proposal relates to “ordinary business” with a previous standard providing an exception for certain proposals raising significant social policy issues.

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Accountancy Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The FRP Corporate Finance debt advisory team has supported pan-European specialist pharmaceutical business, Kelso Pharma (Kelso), on its acquisition of Alturix, a UK pharmaceutical company specialising in developing and commercialising originator and niche branded generics.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 29, 2024

Posted by Michael Eisenband, FTI Consulting, on Monday, July 29, 2024 Editor's Note: Michael Eisenband is Global Co-Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring at FTI Consulting. This post is based on his FTI Consulting memorandum.

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 12, 2024

The former CFO of the LEGO Group shares insights and lessons for finance leaders.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 9, 2023

Posted by Baozhong Yang (Georgia State University), on Wednesday, August 9, 2023 Editor's Note: Baozhong Yang is an Associate Professor of Finance at Georgia State University. Understanding corporate policies is central to corporate finance. Understanding corporate policies is central to corporate finance.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 16, 2023

This “meme surge” phenomenon, particularly the dramatic shift in shareholder base away from institutional ownership, presents a unique opportunity for analysts and scholars to (re)evaluate the current understanding of corporate finance and governance.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 22, 2022

This proxy season, companies saw more shareholder proposals than in the past, a change that has been widely attributed to actions by the SEC and its Division of Corporation Finance that had the effect of making exclusion of shareholder proposals—particularly proposals related to environmental and social issues—more of a challenge for companies.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 30, 2022

Among other actions, during February 2021, shortly after taking office, then-Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee issued a statement directing the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance to enhance its focus on climate-related disclosure in public company filings.

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 18, 2023

If you want to stimulate the urge to poke out your eyes and jump into a pool of lava, try searching for “Is Finance a Good Career Path?” Most articles present generic details everyone already knows, such as “finance jobs pay higher salaries, on average.”. Definitions: What is “Finance,” and What is a “Good Career”?

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 8, 2023

Following a tumultuous 2022 shareholder proposal no-action letter season, the 2023 season contained fewer surprises from the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Misfits – Many finance roles do not fit into either category; the classic examples are corporate finance and corporate development at normal companies. On the second point – “misfits” – corporate finance professionals at normal companies do not raise or invest money and do not charge commissions. see below).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With the accelerating transition away from fossil fuels, awareness of the role of minerals critical to the production of clean energy (including cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earth elements) has increased.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

Posted by Burcin Yurtoglu (WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management), on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Editor's Note: Burcin Yurtoglu is Chair of Corporate Finance at WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management. This post is based on a recent paper authored by Prof. Yurtoglu; Bernard S. Black , Nicholas D.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 29, 2022

Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and former General Counsel and Acting Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance; Gerald Davis, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business; Joseph A. Grundfest, William A.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

The surge in collaborative deals between traditional banks and fintech disrupters is helping finance houses develop deeper competence in next-generation digital and artificial intelligence offerings across core areas such as risk management, data analytics, robo-advisors, portfolio management, and fraud detection and prevention.

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IVSC

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He has three decades of experience in capital markets, corporate finance, and valuations. Between 2010 and 2017, Nicolas was a corporate finance advisor and Investor Relations officer for corporate clients in several industries, including Renewable Energy.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

Baruch Lev is Philip Bardes professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance, Kaufman Management Center, Leonard N. They discuss their findings, and the lessons they drew for would be acquirers, with Global Finance. Global Finance: Why did you write this book now? Stern School of Business at New York University.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 16, 2022

Patatoukas is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Why Firms Adopt Antitakeover Arrangements by Lucian A. This post is based on their recent paper.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

The six classes that I prepped for in those two years ranged from banking to investments to corporate finance, and while I have never worked harder, much of what I teach today came out of those classes. In 1984, I moved on to the University of California at Berkeley, as a visiting lecturer, teaching anything that needed to be taught.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

On Wednesday, by 3-1 vote, the SEC approved proposed rules aimed at enhancing and standardizing disclosures made by public companies regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident reporting, [1] reflecting the third rulemaking project the Commission has proposed in connection with cybersecurity in the past year. [2]

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 11, 2022

In May, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued an illustrative letter with sample comments the Division may issue to registrants, reinforcing disclosure obligations related to matters that directly or indirectly impact a company’s business.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In November 2021, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the SEC issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. Pinedo , and David A. Proxy Voting Matters SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS Shareholder Proposals in the 2023 Proxy Season. 14L (“SLB 14L”), [1] rescinding Staff Legal Bulletins Nos. 14I, 14J and 14K.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 12, 2023

The former director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Bill Hinman, suggested engagement between shareholders and management might improve if the SEC could “get out of the way.”. Moreover, even the SEC has debated whether its involvement in this process adds value. more…).

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Dipak Golechha explains why he sees the current business environment as a ‘return to sense and sensibility’ for finance leaders.

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 18, 2024

In a new survey, CFOs report a growing focus on longer-term planning and high expectations for technology, including generative AI.

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