Published on: January 31 2022
Contributed by: Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
Introduction The Biden administration has just completed its first full year in office, and the talk has been tough. New leadership at DOJ, the SEC, the FTC, the CFTC, and other regulatory and law enforcement agencies have issued statements and policy revisions signaling their intention to train more focus on white-collar and regulatory enforcement. We … Continued
Published on: January 7 2022
Contributed by: Adam Li and Fang He, partners at JunHe and members of XBMA's Legal Roundtable. Mr. Li is a leading expert in international mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and international financial transactions involving Chinese companies. Ms. He has broad experience in M&A, outbound investment, foreign direct investment, and private equity. This article was authored by Wang Yi and Xiaojia Sun, partners at JunHe.
*Originally distributed on December 31, 2021 The second half of 2021 was an extraordinary time for Chinese companies seeking to list overseas, as well as for other relevant market participants. The Didi incident further deepened the anxiety and “mistrust” by US securities regulators on the risks associated with investing in China-based companies or that have … Continued
Published on: January 3 2022
Contributed by: Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
Since early 2020, a consortium of well-funded plaintiffs’ law firms have pursued an aggressive campaign of derivative litigation in the New York courts against major European companies, including Deutsche Bank, UBS, Volkswagen, Barclays, Novartis, and Bayer (represented by this Firm). While the lawsuits differed in detail, they shared a strategic purpose: to drag international companies … Continued