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On 26 March 2020, the UK Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) issued its revised Standards for Investment Reporting (the “SIRs”), which contain the standards and guidance that repo...
On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act”)—a sweeping economic relief package that will deliver an u...
The recent market volatility caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused precipitous drops in the stock prices of many companies, reducing the value of outstanding equity awa...
As part of continued action to address the economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. antitrust agencies issued further guidance yesterday regarding competitor collabo...
Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced technical changes to the regulations implementing Treasury-administered economic sanctio...
We have prepared a concise table of the many Fed programs to help companies, financial institutions and markets in the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency. The table covers discount window a...
The Federal Reserve announced on April 9 the creation of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF), which will provide up to $500 billion of direct support to states and local governments to...
On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) issued guidance on voting policies of various corporate governance-related issues that are likely to be implicat...
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency and potential liquidity issues for registered funds, the SEC has provided temporary relief to allow registered funds to sell assets to,...