As the breakneck pace of the OTC derivatives regulatory regime continues, the 2017 edition of OTC Derivatives Regulation Under Dodd-Frank: A Guide to Registration, Reporting, Business Con...

The common interest privilege (sometimes known as the community of interest privilege, joint defense privilege or common interest doctrine) is an important feature of civil litigation. Th...

  In May 2014, the Director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) at the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) gave a speech to the Private Fund C...

Following a consultation regarding the extent to which parties to UK takeover offers may be held to statements they make, the Takeover Code was amended in 2015 to regulate two types of st...

  The primary purpose of procuring insurance coverage for a company’s directors and officers (D&O Insurance) is to protect the personal assets of directors and officers from lawsuits ar...

Davis Polk lawyers Meyer Dworkin and Samantha Hait recently authored a chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2017, Fifth Edition. In “Escrow...

Thomson Reuters has released Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fourth Edition in a joint venture with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. Among the 296...

  Shareholder activism in the UK remained topical in 2016 with a number of high profile campaigns including ValueAct’s investment in Rolls Royce, Elliot’s investment in Meggitt and in...

  Davis Polk partner Randall Guynn served as editor of Regulation of Foreign Banks & Affiliates in the United States (ninth edition), which discusses federal and state laws governing fore...

Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, Laura Turano and Thomas Malinowsky are the contributing editors to the second edition of Getting the Deal Through: Shareholder Activism & Engagement 2017, a vo...