Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 28, 2024

Posted by Stephen Hom, Erin Bass-Goldberg, and Emma van Beek, FW Cook, on Sunday, July 28, 2024 Editor's Note: Stephen Hom is a Principal, Erin Bass-Goldberg is a Managing Director, and Emma van Beek is a Consultant at FW Cook. This post is based on their FW Cook memorandum. In October 2022, the SEC adopted final clawback rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which required companies listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq to adopt a clawback policy to recover excess incentive compensation from current an

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The Guardian M&A

JULY 28, 2024

Exclusive: Chief executive says government’s promise of UK-wide 5G by 2030 needs investment ‘unlocked’ by deal The chief executive of Vodafone has said Labour will fail to achieve its promise of nationwide access to 5G, which is essential for next-generation technology such as artificial intelligence, by 2030 if the telecom company’s £15bn merger with the rival Three UK is blocked.

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Technology 95

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 28, 2024

Posted by Cydney Posner, Cooley LLP, on Sunday, July 28, 2024 Editor's Note: Cydney Posner is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. This post is based on her Cooley memorandum. You might recall that, in 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two bills related to climate disclosure: Senate Bill 253 , the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act , and SB261 , Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk.

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Appraisers Blog

JULY 28, 2024

In reply to Frustrated Appraiser. HW is just selling amcs to appraisers. Now they are questioning the appraiser’s role, suggesting we are a racist group when we have worked in the environment that taught us the importance of our indepence. The amcs are turning us into slaves!

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Peak Business Valuation

JULY 28, 2024

Owning a hardware store can be very profitable. Hardware stores help meet the strong demand for building materials, tools, painting supplies, electrical equipment, and various types of hardware. However, starting , purchasing , or growing a hardware store often comes with financial challenges. Thankfully, the Small Business Administration offers several affordable financing options for hardware store owners.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 28, 2024

A court rendered a mixed result in the SEC’s SolarWinds litigation. The court declined to dismiss the SEC’s claims that a website “Security Statement” overstated the strength of SolarWinds’ cybersecurity measures. However, the court dismissed claims based on SolarWinds’ SEC filings after discovery of a cybersecurity incident and also dismissed claims that SolarWinds lacked adequate accounting and disclosure controls, a setback for the SEC in its expansive reading of the controls requirements.

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Technology 45

Reynolds Holding

JULY 28, 2024

Fraud-on-the-market (“FOTM”) suits are thought to generate considerable benefits for society – namely, those associated with increased stock-market price accuracy and liquidity. But these suits are also said to impose exceptionally large social costs relative to even those associated with more typical class-action litigation. The federal courts have thus long tried to efficiently screen out FOTM claims that do not sufficiently implicate the benefits at issue, even if judges do not always conside

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Financial Times M&A

JULY 28, 2024

Private equity firms have been sitting on about 28,000 unsold companies worth $3.

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Private Equity Firm Equity 71

Financial Times M&A

JULY 28, 2024

Head of Europe’s biggest stock exchange operator says group would consider combination with any large regional rival

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Financial Times M&A

JULY 28, 2024

UK bank brings case over securitisation of loans that US group sold in mortgage push

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Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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