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FDIC releases final policy statement on acquisitions and investments in failed banks or thrifts by private capital investors

  • Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

On August 26, 2009 the FDIC board of directors (the "FDIC Board") adopted the Final Statement of Policy on Qualifications for Failed Bank Acquisitions (the "Final Statement"

FDIC adopts final policy on private equity investments in failed banks

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

At a meeting on August 26, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) adopted a final policy statement that establishes standards for bidder eligibility for private equity investors and similar non-bank investors seeking to acquire or invest in the deposit liabilities and operations of failed insured depository institutions through the FDIC resolution process

Mergers and acquisitions in China: restrictions on choice of governing law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • August 31 2009

As a country with a civil law tradition, the People’s Republic of China has enacted its own written contract law that in large part adopted the UNIDROIT General Principles of International Commercial Contracts (an instrument reflecting the general principles of the international commercial contract law

Taking security over shares in a British Virgin Islands company (a ‘company’)

  • Harney Westwood & Riegels
  • -
  • British Virgin Islands
  • -
  • September 1 2009

Is it possible to take security over shares in a Company?

Retreat but not reversal by FDIC on private equity

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On August 26, 2009, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") issued its Final Statement of Policy on Qualifications for Failed Bank Acquisitions ("Final Rules"

Special MOFCOM reviews in M&As

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 11 2007

In addition to competition law reporting requirements, a transaction must be reported to the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) if it results in a change of control of a domestic company and: the transaction involves a "key" industry; the transaction has or may have an impact on national economic security; or the domestic company owns a well-known trademark or a "time-honoured Chinese brand"

State aid: commission investigation into reduced interest rates for intra-group financing

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 9 2007

The European Commission has decided to open a formal investigation procedure into planned reductions of Dutch tax rates for net interest received on intra-group loans

Federal court dismisses antitrust suit alleging unlawful joint bidding arrangements among private equity firms

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 29 2008

A federal district court judge in the Western District of Washington recently dismissed an antitrust class action suit alleging that two private equity funds had unlawfully conspired in their bid to acquire WatchGuard Technologies (“WatchGuard”), a publicly traded company

Final regulations in effect for national security review of foreign acquisitions of US businesses

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2009

On December 22, 2008 final regulations adopted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on national security reviews of acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign persons took effect

New CFIUS regulations and guidance support broadening analysis of national security considerations in M&A transactions

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2009

At the end of 2008, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") adopted new regulations and issued guidance regarding acquisitions of United States businesses by foreign persons that will require buyers and sellers in a broad range of potential transactions to consider whether their proposed transaction has national security implications that would make a voluntary notice filing with CFIUS advisable

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