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Emerging Markets M&A Review
Emerging Markets M&A Review FULL YEAR 2020 | LEGAL ADVISORS Emerging Markets Mergers & Acquisitions Review Full Year 2020 | Legal Advisors Emerging Markets Deals Intelligence Emerging Markets Announced Target M&A $1,000 16,000 EMERGING MARKETS DEAL MAKING FALLS 5%; SECOND HALF REBOUNDS 46% M&A activity with emerging markets involvement totaled US$955.1 billion during full year 2020, a 5% $900 14,000 decline compared to 2019 levels and the slowest annual period for emerging markets deal making since 2014. The second half of 2020 registered a 46% increase compared to the first half of the year, marking $800 the strongest six-month period for emerging markets M&A since 2015. By number of deals, emerging 12,000 markets deal making declined 6% compared to full year 2019, a six-year low. $700 10,000 $600 ENERGY & POWER, FINANCIALS & TECH LEAD EMERGING MARKETS SECTOR MIX Deal making in the Energy & Power sector totaled US$173.9 billion during full year 2020, a 16% $500 8,000 decrease compared to full year 2019. Financials M&A accounted for 16% of activity, while Technology M&A accounted for 14% of overall emerging markets M&A during full year 2020. Collectively, the top $400 three industries accounted for 48% of total emerging markets deals this year, on par with a year ago. 6,000 $300 CHINA, INDIA & RUSSIA DRIVE MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF EMERGING MARKETS M&A 4,000 M&A activity involving targets in China, India and Russia accounted for 67% of overall emerging markets $200 M&A activity during full year 2020, up from 48% during 2019. -
May 1–2, 2014 | Chicago
May 1–2, 2014 | Chicago Practical Guidance For Today’s Legal Challenges Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial, presenting an economic overview of the market A Conversation with Keith F. Higgins, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC Remarks by James R. Doty, Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Two-session hypothetical addressing the Lifecycle of Managing Shareholder Activism www.law.northwestern.edu/professionaled PROGRAM Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:30 a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast 12:30–1:45 p.m. | Institute Lunch Sponsored by Houlihan Lokey, Inc. 8:15–8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Overview Daniel B. Rodriguez, Dean, Harold Washington Professor, 1:45–2:45 p.m. | A Conversation with the Director of Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago the Division of Corporation Finance Joseph P. Gromacki, Institute Chair, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago Keith F. Higgins, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, SEC, Washington, D.C. 8:30–9 a.m. | Keynote Address Moderators Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial Holdings, Robert C. Shrosbree, Executive Director Legal, Corporate & Inc., Chicago Securities, General Motors Company, Detroit William J. Tolbert Jr., Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C. 9–9:15 a.m. | Break 2:45–4:15 p.m. | Key Disclosure Issues for 2014 9:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Including Shelley Parratt’s THE LIFECYCLE OF MANAGING “Top Ten” SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM: THE CORPORATE • Lessons learned from the JOBS Act confidential PROCESS EXAMINED review process A two-session hypothetical examining the legal, • Practical advice on responding to SEC Staff financial, and investor communication challenges comments presented by shareholder activism. -
Here Restitution Was Ordered As the Firm Picked up a GAR Award in That Year in the “International a Remedy
GAR 100 2020 The firm is representing investors in claims against Montenegro, Tanzania and Venezuela, having previously acted in claims against Steptoe & Johnson Turkey and Jordan. It helped Canada defeat two NAFTA claims in the mid-2000s. Pending cases as counsel 11 Other government clients are Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Value of pending counsel work US$1.5 billion+ Guatemala and South Korea. The firm has also been helping China Treaty cases 8 to negotiate an investment treaty with the EU. Third-party funded cases 1 Current arbitrator appointments 4 (3 as chair or sole) Track record Lawyers sitting as arbitrator 1 Steptoe & Johnson’s most impressive results to date have been for the von Pezolds, a Swiss-German family of farmers, in a pair of Has strengthened its investor-state team with some ICSID claims against Zimbabwe concerning the controversial land significant hires and is now instructed on a US$350 reform programme of former president Robert Mugabe. The firm million ICSID claim against Colombia won a pair of awards in 2015 requiring the state to return land it had expropriated or pay US$195 million in compensation. An ICSID US-based Steptoe & Johnson has worked on arbitrations for a annulment committee upheld the awards in November 2018. It was number of years, but 2016 marked a turning point after it achieved one of the first ICSID matters to consider discrimination on the outstanding results in a pair of ICSID cases against Zimbabwe. basis of race, and one of the few where restitution was ordered as The firm picked up a GAR Award in that year in the “international a remedy. -
2018 Inspection Grant Thornton LLP (Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois)
2018 Inspection Grant Thornton LLP (Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois) April 28, 2020 THIS IS A PUBLIC VERSION OF A PCAOB INSPECTION REPORT PORTIONS OF THE COMPLETE REPORT ARE OMITTED FROM THIS DOCUMENT IN ORDER TO COMPLY WITH SECTIONS 104(g)(2) AND 105(b)(5)(A) OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 PCAOB RELEASE NO. 104-2020-010 Executive Summary Our 2018 inspection report on Grant Thornton LLP provides information on our inspection to assess the firm’s compliance with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) standards and rules and other applicable regulatory and professional requirements. This executive summary offers a high-level overview of: (1) Part I.A of the report, which discusses deficiencies (“Part I.A deficiencies”) in certain issuer audits that were of such significance that we believe the firm, at the time it issued its audit report(s), had not obtained sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support its opinion on the issuer's financial statements and/or internal control over financial reporting (“ICFR”), and (2) Part I.B of the report, which discusses deficiencies that do not relate directly to the sufficiency or appropriateness of evidence the firm obtained to support its opinion(s) but nevertheless relate to instances of non-compliance with PCAOB standards or rules. The fact that we have included a deficiency in this report — other than those deficiencies for audits with incorrect opinions on the financial statements and/or ICFR — does not necessarily mean that the issuer’s financial statements are materially misstated or that undisclosed material weaknesses in ICFR exist. -
Mandating Diversity: the Inclusion Clause
Call to Action Sara Lee's General Counsel: Making Diversity A Priority By Melanie Lasoff Levs For some committed general counsel, the standard talk about diversity is only a starting point. Recently, many corporate attorneys decided it was time to demand specific actions and results-with very real consequences. In spring 2004, Sara Lee General Counsel Roderick Palmore created "A Call to Action: Diversity in the Legal Profession," a document reaffirming a commitment to diversity in the law profession and taking action to ensure that corporate legal departments and law firms increase the numbers of women and minority attorneys hired and retained. And if law firms don't, the document states, "We [the undersigned corporate legal department representatives] further intend to end or limit our relationships with firms whose performance consistently evidences a lack of meaningful interest in being diverse." (See the sidebar in this article for the complete text.) Palmore wrote the Call to Action to build on a previous manifesto: former BellSouth General Counsel Charles Morgan's "Diversity in the Workplace: A Statement of Principle," written in 1999. "In that [document], signatories espoused an interest in diversity and the principle of diversity, which was a fabulous thing at the time," Palmore says. "But it struck me that not enough has happened. The progress of the profession-and more specifically the progress of large law firms-had stagnated." The Call to Action takes the Statement of Principle a step further, Palmore adds. "Its purpose is to take the general principle of interest in advancing diversity and translate that into action, into a commitment to act on, to make decisions about retaining law firms based in part on the diversity performance of those law firms." Discussion around the need for a Call to Action began in November 2003, when a group of general counsel gathered at the invitation of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA®), and the Association of the Corporate Counsel (ACC). -
Exelon Corp. V. Commissioner
Tax News and Developments North America Tax Practice Group Newsletter November 2018 | Volume XVII, Issue 10 Second Circuit Decides that Modification of In This Issue: Variable Prepaid Forwards was Taxable Second Circuit Decides that Modification of Variable The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed the taxpayer a major Prepaid Forwards was defeat in a case of first impression regarding the tax consequences of modifying Taxable variable prepaid forward contracts (“VPFCs”). In Estate of McKelvey v. Closing Down the SILO: Commissioner, No. 17-2554 (2nd Cir. 2018), the Second Circuit determined that Exelon Corp. v. Commissioner the amendments to the VPFCs (i) resulted in an exchange of the original VPFC Common Interest Privilege for the amended VPFC, and (ii) triggered constructive sales of the stock Affirmed as Supreme Court of Canada Refuses to Hear underlying the VPFCs. Government Appeal Andrew McKelvey was the founder and CEO of Monster Worldwide. McKelvey New IRS Guidance Opens Door to Use of Qualified owned millions of Monster shares. In 2007, he entered into a VPFC with each of Opportunity Zones two investment banks. Under the VPFCs, the banks paid McKelvey an upfront China Expands Scope of cash payment of approximately $194 million. The VPFC required McKelvey to Reinvestment Incentive to All deliver a variable number of Monster shares to the bank counterparty on the MNC Projects settlement dates specified in the VPFC. The number of shares McKelvey had to UK Budget 2018: What You deliver to the bank depended upon the value of the shares on the settlement date Need to Know and was subject to a cap and a floor. -
A X O N Feren Ce
LOCATION The Meridian Conference Center in Rolling Meadows offers on site parking free of charge. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference guests at DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-Arlington Heights, located at 75 West Algonquin Road, Arling- WELCOME TO OUR ton Heights, Illinois 60005. For hotel accommoda- 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE tions, call Tracy Scaduto at 217.522.6818 by August 17. THANK YOU IllINOIS This year, our conference will focus Platinum Sponsors on technical tax and policy developments Abbott Laboratories STATE AND LOCAL Akerman LLP in Illinois, plus provide updates to changes Baker & McKenzie LLP occurring in other states. The speakers for Caterpillar Inc. TAX CONFERENCE Crowe LLP the State and Local Tax Conference are Deere and Company some of the leading experts on state and Deloitte Tax LLP local tax issues. A basic understanding DuCharme McMillen & Associates Inc. Ernst & Young LLP SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 of state tax concepts acquired through Grant Thornton LLP work preparedness is recommended as a The Inland Real Estate Group LLC prerequisite. No advance preparation is KPMG LLP 8:00 A.M. - 4:50 P.M. McDermott Will & Emery LLP needed. NASBA approved delivery method Plante Moran PwC for all sessions is Group Live. Field of Reed Smith LLP ONFERENCE MERIDIAN CONFERENCE CENTER Study–Taxes-Technical and Legal Ethics. Ryan LLC Program Level–Intermediate. Sidley Austin LLP 1701 W. ALGONQUIN ROAD State Farm Insurance Companies C ROllING MEADOWS, IllINOIS All day attendance at this conference Gold Sponsors will provide up to 6.25 hours of AbbVie Inc. Andersen Tax LLC MCLE and CPE credits. -
International Trade Compliance Update
International Trade Compliance Update (Covering Customs and Other Import Requirements, Export Controls and Sanc- tions, Trade Remedies, WTO and Anti-Corruption) Newsletter | May 2017 In This Issue: World Trade Organization (WTO) World Customs Organization (WCO) Other International Matters The Americas - Central America The Americas - North America The Americas - South America Asia-Pacific Europe, Middle East and North Africa Trade compliance enforcement ac- Please see our Webinars, Meetings, Seminars section for the full schedule of tions - import, export, IPR, FCPA webinars in this series, names of speakers, contacts and information on how to Newsletters, reports, articles, etc. register for one or more of these complimentary webinars, as well as information on other events and links to video recordings of past webinars. Webinars, Meetings, Seminars, etc. WTO TBT Notifications CBP Rulings: Downloads and Searches To keep abreast of international trade-related news, visit our blogs: CBP Rulings: Revocations or Modifi- cations For International Trade Compliance Updates, please regularly visit . European Classification Regulations www.internationaltradecomplianceupdate.com Amendments to the CN Explanatory For additional articles and updates on trade sanctions, export controls and relat- Notes ed subjects, please visit: http://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/ regularly. Section 337 Actions For resources and news regarding international trade, particularly in Asia, please Antidumping, Countervailing Duty visit our new Trade Crossroads blog at http://tradeblog.bakermckenzie.com/. and Safeguard Investigations, Or- ders & Reviews To see how the UK referendum on exiting the EU (Brexit) may affect your busi- ness, visit http://brexit.bakermckenzie.com/ For additional compliance news and comment from around the world, please visit http://globalcompliancenews.com/. -
Financial Executive Compensation Survey 2015
Financial Executive Compensation Survey 2015 Financial executives see larger salary increases Thomas Thompson Jr. and Ken Cameron Contents 1 Introduction Private company compensation still lags behind public company compensation 2 No change in finance/accounting staff size Sign-on and retention bonuses Use of variable pay Benefits 3 Perquisites Long-term incentives 4 Performance measures Employment contracts Public vs. private company responses 5 Portraits of the top financial jobs Portrait of a CFO Portrait of a corporate controller Portrait of a VP of finance 8 Applying survey results Survey methodology and demographics 9 About the authors 10 About Financial Executives Research Foundation Inc. About Grant Thornton LLP 11 Our supporters 12 FEI 2015 Distinguished Service Award recipients Authors Thomas Thompson Jr. Senior research associate Financial Executives Research Foundation Inc. Ken Cameron Director of Compensation and Benefits Consulting Practice Mid-South Market Territory Grant Thornton LLP The Financial Executive Compensation Private company compensation still lags behind public company compensation Survey 2015 of public and private company Despite base-salary increases that are higher overall than increases financial executives shows a continuing at public companies, private organizations trail in base and total trend of higher salary increases for financial compensation. Differences between the two groups are greater executives at both public and private than 10% among smaller organizations, and the gap increases as the size of the organizations does. The survey data shows companies. Public companies reported a that eligibility for long-term incentives is more than double for 3.9% increase from 3.4% a year ago, while financial executives of public companies compared with private. -
Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304 Children’S Rights Summit 2017 December 5, 2017 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Palo Alto, CA
Tuesday 5 December 2017 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304 Children’s Rights Summit 2017 December 5, 2017 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Palo Alto, CA Welcome to the 4th Annual CHILDREN’S RIGHTS SUMMIT, an event that has evolved in substance and scope every year. This year is no exception. Inaugurating in 2014, we asked ourselves, “What can we do for children’s rights?” We created a community meant to challenge the status quo and broaden the reach by engaging other innovative thinkers in solutions needed to realize rights of children and youth. In 2015, we demanded of ourselves and our community, “If we can, we must.” Last year, we flipped the script to challenge ourselves to driving toward solutions by agreeing, “We can, so we must.” In 2017, a time of unprecedented challenges, we find ourselves forced to push ourselves further as a community to figure out what we must do and create to make a meaningful impact. Today, we ask one simple question: “WHY CAN’T WE?” Why can’t we do better? Why can’t we do better for kids in multiple systems? Why can’t we help children burdened by the place and circumstances we put them in overcome those very challenges to achieve a safe, happy and healthy live? Why can’t we get kids to the point of success, much less survival? We are a community ripe with talent, resources, commitment, innovation and reinvention. Why can’t we put that power into play to make life better for these kids? Today we find ourselves settling for a system of children’s justice that fights only to reach a paltry, bare minimum standard at best. -
Public Interest
AGENDA KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JUNE 24, 2020 3:00 PM — 3:30 PM KEITH ELLISON MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL Keith Ellison is Minnesota’s 30th attorney general. As the People’s Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison’s job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. Ellison will address PBI conference attendees and guests virtually to discuss racial justice. He will follow his keynote address with a short Q & A. From 2007 to 2019, Keith Ellison represented Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker, environmental, and civil- and human- rights protections for Minnesotans. Before being elected to Congress, Attorney General Ellison served four years in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Prior to entering elective office, he spent 16 years as an attorney specializing in civil-rights and defense law, including five years as executive director of the Legal Rights Center, a public-interest law firm. There he oversaw a team of attorneys focused on delivering justice for Minnesotans who had nowhere else to turn. He was also a noted community activist. JUNE 25, 2020 4:30 PM — 5:00 PM STACEY ABRAMS BESTSELLING AUTHOR, NONPROFIT CEO, POLITICAL LEADER Stacey Abrams is a New York Times bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit CEO, and political leader. After serving for 11 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Democratic Leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. Abrams will address PBI conference attendees and guests virtually to discuss racial justice and voter suppression. -
Hearing on How Business Tax Reform Can Encourage Job Creation Ways and Means
2/26/2016 Hearing on How Business Tax Reform Can Encourage Job Creation Ways and Means (http://waysandmeans.house.gov) The Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on How Business Tax Reform Can Encourage Job Creation JUNE 2, 2011 — TRANSCRIPTS (HTTP://WAYSANDMEANS.HOUSE.GOV/CATEGORY/TRANSCRIPTS/) FULL COMMITTEE (HTTP://WAYSANDMEANS.HOUSE.GOV/SUBCOMMITTEE/FULL-COMMITTEE/) HEARING ON HOW BUSINESS TAX REFORM CAN ENCOURAGE JOB CREATION HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION June 2, 2011 SERIAL 112-13 Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearingonhowbusinesstaxreformcanencouragejobcreation/ 1/37 2/26/2016 Hearing on How Business Tax Reform Can Encourage Job Creation Ways and Means COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS DAVE CAMP, Michigan, Chairman WALLY HERGER, California SANDER M. LEVIN, Michigan CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York SAM JOHNSON, Texas FORTNEY PETE STARK, California KEVIN BRADY, Texas JIM MCDERMOTT, Washington JOHN LEWIS, Georgia PAUL RYAN, Wisconsin RICHARD E. NEAL, Massachusetts DEVIN NUNES, California XAVIER BECERRA, California LLOYD DOGGETT, Texas PATRICK J. TIBERI, Ohio MIKE THOMPSON, California GEOFF DAVIS, Kentucky JOHN B. LARSON, Connecticut EARL BLUMENAUER, Oregon DAVID G. REICHERT, Washington RON KIND, Wisconsin CHARLES W. BOUSTANY, JR., Louisiana BILL PASCRELL, JR., New Jersey PETER J. ROSKAM, Illinois SHELLEY BERKLEY, Nevada JOSEPH CROWLEY, New York JIM GERLACH, Pennsylvania TOM PRICE, Georgia VERN BUCHANAN, Florida ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska AARON SCHOCK, Illinois LYNN JENKINS, Kansas ERIK PAULSEN, Minnesota KENNY MARCHANT, Texas RICK BERG, North Dakota DIANE BLACK, Tennessee JON TRAUB, Staff Director JANICE MAYS, Minority Staff Director C O N T E N T S Advisory of June 2, 2011 announcing the hearing (http://waysandmeans.house.gov/?replace=news&p=242048) WITNESSES Ashby T.