by Radhika Gupta | Nov 17, 2022 | Blog
SEC announced the creation of the climate and Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Task Force in March 2021. The Task Force was created to identify misconduct in ESG-related disclosures and any material gaps or misstatements in issuers’ disclosure of climate...
by Yuanchen Lu | Oct 25, 2022 | Blog
SPAC stands for “special purpose acquisition company,” which is also known as “blank check company.” It typically refers to a shell company listed on a stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company, thus making it public without going through the...
by Noelle Feigenbaum | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
On September 29, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and several state attorneys general filed a complaint (“FTC Complaint”) against Syngenta and Corteva alleging anticompetitive conduct with respect to certain active ingredients used in crop protection...
by James Pedersen | Sep 30, 2022 | Blog
The special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) continues to have a profound impact on stock markets. We have written previously about the increasing popularity of SPAC’s and the risks inherent to SPAC’s. The SPAC device attempts to sidestep the SEC review process by...
by Anthony Christina | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
Up until several years ago, cryptocurrencies were traded directly among counterparties. Cryptocurrencies as investments were initially viewed with skepticism by both Wall Street and Main Street as something only hard-core libertarians, criminal actors, or privacy...
by Charles Kopel | Aug 23, 2022 | Blog
The Meta Pixel is a piece of software that Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), the parent company of Facebook, uses to monitor and monetize individuals’ activities on the Internet. The Pixel, which Meta has used and refined since 2013, is a snippet of code embedded...
