It is always interesting to see the Pitchbook report on the M&A market. Highlights from Q3 deals (which of course are pre-election): Median deal value increased to 8.4 times EBITDA; been rising all year. Median deal value as a multiple … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Law
The devil is always in the details when it comes to taxes, and the assumption that companies will just look at the cash that is sitting overseas, and may choose to repatriate it onshore and pay 10% (under the Trump plan) and pocket … Continue reading
You will read that the United States Supreme Court unanimously re-established the “old rule” for liability for insider trading: if person A tips person B with material inside information, both parties will be liable for insider trading under the securities … Continue reading
At the Boston breakfast meeting this week of the Association for Corporate Growth, venture capital fund managers discussed how they do business, and the impact of the presidential election. The answer: there will be changes in the business environment, but … Continue reading
The NACD panel on executive compensation set forth its perceptions of tasks for the public compensation committee for 2017. Set forth below are some significant take-aways: The first job of the compensation committee is to figure out how to motivate … Continue reading
Those reading newspapers know that Mary Jo White, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned effective in January. What does this foretell for financial reporting of publicly-held companies? This subject was discussed at the Tuesday morning meeting of the … Continue reading
ISS, proxy advisor to institutions invested in publicly-held companies, has issued changes in its methodology for evaluating executive compensation in connection with recommending shareholder voting under the SECs “Say-On-Pay” advisory procedure. The big take-away is this: ISS is retreating from … Continue reading
Each year for the past seven years, the MassChallenge program has accepted approximately 128 emerging companies in many industries, which become resident in the MassChallenge incubator (now in South Boston). For each of the last seven years, our firm has … Continue reading
Not quite yet, no matter how hard you may be in favor of that result, says Harvard Professor David Wilkins in remarks to the Boston Bar Association Annual Meeting at the Westin Copley on October 20th. Law school applications are … Continue reading
Big problems just keep getting bigger. In 2003, hackers succeeded in reaching their targets 74% of the time with a 20% detection rate by those being hacked. In 2015, detection increased to 25%, but hackers were now successful 95% … Continue reading