By: Jordan Yaret , Mikhel Schecter , and Bryant Mendel , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HISTORICALLY LOW interest rates boosted U.S. structured finance issuance to $510 billion in 2017, a 37% increase over...

By: Trevor S. Norwitz , Sabastian V. Niles , Avi A. Sutton and Anna S. Greig Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Shareholder proposals are a popular and effective mechanism enabling shareholders to recommend or require that a company and/or its board...

Q&A with Keir Gumbs , Covington & Burling LLP As Special Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, what were some of your major responsibilities? I was a special counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel within the Division...

By: Michael L. Hermsen, Anna Pinedo, and Laura D. Richman , Mayer Brown LLP THE ARTICLE ALSO HIGHLIGHTS KEY FORM 10-K AND FORM 10-Q matters, including risk factors, management discussion and analysis (MD&A), and financial statement issues, and examines...

By: Timothy B. Howell and Alex Petrossian , Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP The defined terms in any agreement are considered as the building blocks upon which the rest of the agreement is based, particularly when it comes to the negative covenants...