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Paul Weiss Discusses New Tailwinds for Activists

By Andrew D. Krause, James E. Langston and Carmen X. Lu April 1, 2025 by renholding

The recent market downturn driven by uncertainty on tariffs, domestic policy shifts and the changing geopolitical landscape will continue to create new opportunities for activists in 2025. We highlight below how activism may evolve in the coming months:

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Skadden Discusses How Directors, Officers, and Other Fiduciaries Can Deal With Inflation and Market Turmoil

By Van C. Durrer II October 10, 2022 by renholding

Directors, officers and other fiduciaries (together, “fiduciaries”) owe two primary duties to a corporation and its shareholders: the duty of loyalty and the duty of care. The duty of loyalty requires that fiduciaries make business judgments in the honest and …

Skadden Discusses Antitrust Enforcers’ Supply Chain Initiative

By Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz April 25, 2022 by renholding

On February 17th, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an initiative to protect supply chains from anticompetitive behavior amid global disruptions and persistent inflation. The initiative is yet another example of the Biden Administration’s aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement since …

SEC Commissioners Crenshaw and Lee Discuss Failure to Modernize Accredited Investor Definition

By Caroline Crenshaw and Allison Herren Lee August 27, 2020 by renholding

The accredited investor definition is the single most important investor protection in the private market.[1] Today’s amendments purport to “update” that definition while leaving in place 38-year old wealth thresholds, declining to index the thresholds to inflation, and declining

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The Real Problem with Appraisal Arbitrage

By Richard A. Booth October 27, 2016 by renholding

In the controversial practice of appraisal arbitrage, activist investors buy shares of a corporation to be acquired by merger so as to assert appraisal rights challenging the merger price – which may already have been approved by the target’s stockholders. …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: A Five Year Retrospective

By Robert Krainer March 4, 2016 by ilyabeylin

This post provides a 5 year review and evaluation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which was established under the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act and the CFPB were a response to the financial and economic crisis that began …

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