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The following remarks were delivered by Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the 26th Annual Corporate Law Institute at Tulane University Law School on March 27, 2014. A copy of …
The IRS has issued its first major ruling on the U.S. federal tax implications of transactions in, or transactions that use, Bitcoin and other convertible virtual currencies. The ruling stresses that it relates to convertible virtual currencies.[1]
One of the …
The following post comes to us from Dan Ryan, Financial Services Advisory Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and is based on a PwC publication.
Overview:
On February 25th, the EU’s two legislative bodies, the European Parliament (EP) and the …
On March 14, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court upheld the Court of Chancery’s 2013 decision in In re MFW Shareholders Litigation , holding that in going-private mergers where there is a controlling stockholder, the use of both a truly independent …
This year’s “SEC Speaks” conference in Washington, D.C., was most notable for an obvious shift in the SEC’s enforcement priorities. Several significant issues and efforts that had been the subject of extensive discussion last year – including financial crisis and …