Michael Best & Friedrich LLP | USA | 13 Jul 2022
With the rather abrupt shift from a sellers’ to a buyers’ market unfolding in the venture capital space, entrepreneurs will see more…
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP | USA | 7 Jul 2022
Recently, we posted a blog that explored the return of participation provisions in venture capital deals as the market turns from entrepreneur- to…
Watson Farley & Williams | United Kingdom | 20 Jul 2021
There has been an increasing trend for private equity investments in the shipping sector to take the form of preferred stock in either publicly…
Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz | USA | 22 Apr 2019
One of the hot issues that are recently emerging out of financing transactions in the high-tech industry is the sale of stock by founders of a…
Raymond Law Group LLC | USA | 8 Mar 2019
Parting with any employee comes with a host of dangers and pitfalls for an employer. These liabilities are increased when the exiting employee holds…
K&L Gates LLP | USA | 20 Feb 2019
In 2018, the False Claims Act ("FCA") continued to be one of the federal government's ("Government") preferred civil fraud enforcement tools across a…
BDO LLP | India | 8 Feb 2019
The Mumbai Tax Tribunal recently considered whether the conversion of a company into a limited liability partnership could be considered a transfer even though it had failed to meet all of the conditions set out in Section 47(xiiib) of the Income Tax Act. In another case, the tribunal referred to a Delhi High Court ruling and stated that preference shares are part of a company's share capital......
McGuireWoods LLP | USA | 16 Nov 2018
With the release of the Opportunity Zone proposed regulations, potential investors, developers, funds and hoards of others eagerly awaiting this…
K&L Gates LLP | Taiwan | 12 Nov 2018
On July 6, 2018, Taiwan’s legislature enacted 148 amendments to the Company Act (the “2018 Amendments”), which became effective November 1, 2018. The…
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth | USA | 1 Nov 2018
Convertible debt and preferred equity are among the most common forms of investment structures used in early stage companies. The latter is a new…