Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Posted by Justin Danhof, Strive Asset Management, on Friday, February 23, 2024 Editor's Note: Justin Danhof is Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Governance at Strive Asset Management. This post was prepared for the Forum by Mr. Danhof. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Perils and Questionable Promise of ESG-Based Compensation (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A.

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BVR

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Getting accurate cost of equity and WACC estimates and CRSP size premia can be a big job. However, thanks to Cost of Capital Professional, developing your cost of equity estimates has gotten so much more streamlined. Let's take a look at some of the most beneficial features of this cost-effective and easy-to-use platform.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Posted by Nichol Garzon-Mitchell, Glass, Lewis & Co, on Friday, February 23, 2024 Editor's Note: Nichol Garzon-Mitchell is Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Glass, Lewis & Co. This post was prepared for the Forum by Ms. Garzon-Mitchell. As this year’s U.S. proxy season gets underway, attention turns, as always, to the proxy contests and shareholder proposals that will draw business press headlines over the coming months.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With advances in AI, telecom operators can better understand individual customers’ network experience, enabling ROI-maximizing capital allocation, higher reliability, and better commercial outcomes.

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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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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, February 23, 2024 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of February 16-22, 2024 Approaching Shareholder Engagement in 2024 Posted by Doug Schnell, Sebastian Alsheimer and Daniyal Iqbal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, on Friday, February 16, 2024 Tags: 2024 , Board composition , Director , Shareholder activism , shareholder engagement , Shareholders , V

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Rising energy costs, growing consumption, and the need to meet decarbonization goals are pressuring telcos to lower costs and to use electricity more efficiently.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Four tactics can improve telecom companies’ returns on fiber rollouts, helping to connect more of the millions of people who remain without high-speed access.

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Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In October 2023, the Railroad Commission of Texas (the “RRC,” or the “Commission”) announced that for the first time in nearly 40 years, 16 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) §3.8 (relating to Water Protection), also known as Statewide Rule 8 (“Rule 8”), would undergo a significant overhaul.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Are you making the right things effortless and the wrong things hard? To remove friction in your organization, you may want to start thinking like a friction fixer.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Kirkland & Ellis LLP has added a corporate partner in its insurance transactions and regulatory and financial institutions practice groups, bringing on a former Sidley Austin LLP attorney who said he "couldn't be more excited" to join the firm's Chicago office.

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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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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to Mary T Thompson. Yea, calling out will not happen given it had a predetermined outcome for the sake of sensationalism and ratings. This is nothing more than an opinion piece and not credible investigative reporting. The department it is published through, something to the effect we are on your side, pretty much sums up the lack of objectivity.

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Machen McChesney

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Labor's final rule for employee or independent contractor classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act rescinds the 2021 Independent Contractor Rule, replacing it with guidance on analysis that's more consistent with the FLSA as interpreted by longstanding judicial precedent and was scheduled to take effect March 11, 2024.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to Baggins. I disagree with you on your first paragraph and your last paragraph about the homeowner. They are conjectures because we do not know if this is true. If it is true that may affect the subject condition however; we do not know what reserves he has to maintain his property. He dd not say he was getting a loan “to keep his rental properties up to speed for maximal rental value and adequate maintenance expenditure” He stated he wanted to take advantage of the lower i

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Benchmark Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Benchmark International has successfully facilitated the transaction between B.L. Family Practice, P.A. (B.L. Family Practice), and Med First Primary & Urgent Care (Med First), a leading healthcare provider based in North Carolina.

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Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

In this webinar, Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union and business strategist, will take you through the ABCs of intent data. You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What happened to the desire for “Affordable Housing”??? You can’t have it both ways can you? Everybody be happy until they get the bill for the mortgage payment, insurance, taxes etc.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Crown Castle Inc. (NYSE: CCI ) co-founder Ted Miller wants the telecommunications infrastructure company to fetch up to $15 billion by selling its fiber assets. To expedite the sale process, Miller is proposing to join the Crown Castle board of directors. However, Crown Castle’s board turned him — as well as his list of nominees — down after the interview process.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Irresponsible journalism is not reporting complete and accurate information. The media should accurately portray our profession.

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Sun Acquisitions

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Financial transactions, whether buying a business , selling a property, or investing in a venture, can be complex and riddled with potential pitfalls. In these intricate financial landscapes, professional guidance becomes invaluable. Accountants, lawyers, and brokers are pivotal in helping buyers and sellers make informed decisions that safeguard their economic interests.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Irresponsible journalism is not reporting complete and accurate information. The media should accurately portray our profession.

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LaPorte

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(authored by RSM US LLP) Rural health care providers must navigate rising labor and supply costs to remain operational. The post Post-pandemic tailwinds offer new opportunities in rural health care first appeared on LaPorte.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to J. Wade Purdy. Watch the news report from the link Russell posted below, read the article. Don’t waste your time with fake news syndicated media people. Instead follow the prosecuting attornies advice she uses as the basis for the claim which the firms representative compensation is contingent upon; develop a refinance appraisal for a multi family rental unit in depreciated condition, and use comps of renovated single family use home sales on the same block as primary market va

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LaPorte

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(authored by RSM US LLP) As margins struggle to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, strategic partnerships are expected to rise in health care this year. The post Beyond M&A: Hospitals turn to joint ventures for growth, patient focus first appeared on LaPorte.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to Russell. This is so distubing on so many levels. They talked to Tobias Peter but completely minimized his statements about it not being bias and other factors are involved and honed in on stories that fit their narrarative. How dare that attorney say we are appraising the homeowner and not the home. She is defaming us right there. She should know better.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hedge funds with shares of Momentive Performance Materials Inc. that withdrew from a consolidated class lawsuit over the silicone maker's $3.1 billion sale in 2019 urged Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday to carve them out of a proposed $19 million class settlement, accusing their former co-lead counsel of grabbing their "cake.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It just bothers the heck out of me that a preponderence of racial complaints come from refinances, not sales. It’s as if “I don’t get what I want I’m going to stomp my feet and yell bias” If the gentlemen is a sseasoned real estate investor as he claims, it is a given he is savy and knows that you do not compare multi family investment properties to single family dwellings and rooms that are walk-through with no closets are not, by definition, bedrooms for both reas

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A proposed class of former Citrix Systems Inc. stockholders accused the company's former CEO and chairman Robert M. Calderoni of failing to get enough for stockholders for the $16.5 billion sale of the cloud software company to Vista Equity Partners Management LLC and Elliott Investment Management LP affiliate Evergreen Coast Capital Corp.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to Baggins. Bravo, but you know, you just make too much sense for any of these under-educated reporters and attorneys to figure out. Their eyes would be crossing just reading your post as they have no clue about how such properties are appraised! I would love to see an Appraiser make these reporters look like idiots on air… and now I just realized why they NEVER have an Appraiser on the air and certainly never do they have the Appraiser being skewered on the air to refute all thei

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ThomsonReuters

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Jump to: Why is it important to be proactive toward sales tax audits? How can my company prepare for a potential sales tax audit? How can tax technology help when defending an audit? When and how should tax systems be upgraded? Sales tax audits are laborious, complex, data-intensive events that almost all companies must endure at some point. By the time an audit is triggered , however, it is too late to change the outcome in any meaningful way because the transactions and events under audit have

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One of the many things that are interesting to me is how in some cases the complaint is that the appraiser didn’t consider houses in other parts of the neighborhood, or even other neighborhoods, and stayed too close to home when choosing comps. In this case, even though the SFR’s clearly are not comps, they want to argue that there were sales on the same street that weren’t used.

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Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

One of my favorite pastimes is attempting to explain abstract thoughts and experiences through the lens of a Seinfeld episode. This week, two episodes came immediately to mind: The Soup Nazi and The Mango.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In reply to Anonymous. I digress to the National Association of Realtors mantra since the beginning of memory has been “location, location, location” Your honor, I rest my case. However, if the appraiser does need to expand the research area and needs to use sales from outside the subject defined market area a thorough and complete analysis must be performed to determine if those areas offer the same, inferior or superior appeal and if the latter a market derived adjustment must be a

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. has asked a Delaware court to approve a plan to resolve a $323.5 million clawback action aimed at the co-founders of its European unit by selling the subsidiary back to the executives for $32.7 million.

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Appraisers Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The best advice I can give that man featured in the article is that if he is managing investment properties in a studious manner, and holding out adequate maintenance and repair reserves, he would not need to appeal to a lender for a refinance to keep his rental properties up to speed for maximal rental value and adequate maintenance expenditure. The key consideration here is not the end point appraised value.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A subsidiary of Silver Star Properties REIT Inc. received approval Friday for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan that will channel its remaining property assets into a Delaware subsidiary free and clear of all creditor claims.

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