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Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Matt DiGuiseppe, Maria Castañón Moats, and Paul DeNicola, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Sunday, April 14, 2024 Editor's Note: Matt DiGuiseppe is Managing Director, Maria Castañón Moats is Leader, and Paul DeNicola is Principal at the Governance Insights Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on their PwC memorandum. As we gear up for the 2024 proxy season, it’s important to temper our expectations for any major surprises.

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Comment on The Censorship of Appraisers by Lindsey

Appraisers Blog

The sad part about all this is that the GSEs are trying to force homogeny between all neighborhoods and forego quality of construction and locational characteristics. I’m seeing a trend with these desktop appraisals performed by non-geographically competent appraisers. It’s a shame, because location does matter, no matter the color of your skin. I have to argue my point every once in a while for an appraisal.

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“Shadow Trading” and the Common Law of White Collar Crime

Reynolds Holding

A fascinating legal soap opera is now underway following a trial just completed in California. The issues are new, novel, and important in one sense, but old, familiar, and important in another. The case – SEC v. Panuwat [1] — is an SEC civil case that represented the first time the SEC has tested its “shadow trading” theory of insider trading.

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Comment on Valuation Connect Demands Licenses, Denies Fair Pay by Lindsey

Appraisers Blog

As an appraiser, we should all know math pretty well. The appraisers that are accepting assignments for pennies on the dollar need to have their state give them a hard look into their competency and possibly have their license revoked. Any appraiser worth their salt on the earth wouldn’t dare give away their time, education and experience for near free.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

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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The Swedish kingmakers behind European private equity giant EQT

Financial Times M&A

How the Wallenberg family helped turn EQT Partners into a colossus of the buyout industry

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by John Ford

Appraisers Blog

I”m pretty sure the appraisals in this case were debunked last year as being racially biased. If I remember correctly the original appraiser was African American. The original appraisal opinion of value was higher than a subsequent appraisal. I don’t remember anything about the quality but the whole case was bs. I could also be thinking about a different case but the concept remains.

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Comment on Class Valuation Requests for Proposals by Raymond

Appraisers Blog

In reply to Mat J. Mat J, simply… its because the fee and turn time is the only criteria that is important to them.

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Paul Weiss Discusses Verdict in SEC “Shadow Trading” Case

Reynolds Holding

On Friday, April 5, 2024, a jury in the Northern District of California found that the SEC had established that Defendant Matthew Panuwat, a former senior director of business development at biopharmaceutical firm Medivation, was liable under a civil misappropriation theory of insider trading for violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5.

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Comment on The Censorship of Appraisers by Lindsey

Appraisers Blog

Baggott, if you never disclosed your name again. I’d know who was writing still.