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Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Harvard Corporate Governance

Significant volatility continues to disrupt the equity markets, with the major stock indexes swinging multiple percentage points often on a daily basis. This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon.

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SEC Risk Factors Disclosure Analysis

Harvard Corporate Governance

Opportunities remain to better align external risk reporting with internal risk management and reporting processes, improve the readability and categorization of risks, and make disclosures less generic.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Reynolds Holding

Significant volatility continues to disrupt the equity markets, with the major stock indexes swinging multiple percentage points often on a daily basis. This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon.

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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. In a new article, we address the question of why CFs find it profitable to intermediate DeFi markets and whether CFs contribute to the overall efficiency of those markets.

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What is the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)?

Andrew Stolz

It helps an investor understand what to expect to earn in relation to the risk-free rate and the market return. CAPM assumes that the minimum a rational investor would earn is the risk-free rate by buying the risk-free asset. Investments are exposed to two types of risk: systematic and unsystematic. E(r) = Rf + ??(Rm

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A Novel Explanation for Concentration Among Derivatives Intermediaries, and Its Implications

Reynolds Holding

In derivatives markets, as in other financial markets, customers rely on intermediaries for access to products. My post yesterday documented concentration among derivatives market intermediaries, which are used to support credit quality under characteristically long-dated derivatives instruments. percent, or $1.9 trillion. [4]

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Corporate Treasurers Proceeding With Caution

Global Finance

HSF partner Gabrielle Wong echoes Lang’s view on the need for greater collaboration, noting a growing willingness by treasurers to invest time and money to access the market. In terms of capital markets activities, they’re making smaller but more frequent issuances to stay close to investors.

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