INVITATION: 2022 Spring Perspectives Series

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Getting inclusion and diversity right for your business is an economic and cultural imperative. Now a fast-growing area of focus for businesses globally, actions and results on inclusion are now expected from employees, clients and wider society. This mirrors growing regulatory and legal requirements.

We'll explore why inclusion matters, outline concrete action we can all take, and discuss regulatory priorities for businesses in the United States and beyond.

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As capital allocations to the secondaries market increase and GPs and LPs seek more creative ways to achieve liquidity and optionality, secondaries trading has shifted from LP led sales to coordinated GP led processes. This panel connects our partners with industry practitioners to discuss current and future trends in the secondaries market, the increasingly active GP-led market, and innovations in price discovery.

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Recent proposed changes to US fund regulation, regulatory activity regarding consumer credit, and the ability to use Cayman Islands SPEs for US sponsored transactions (stemming from EU law) are among the legal and regulatory changes impacting new structured finance transactions. Changes to structured transactions are also being made to accommodate an increased level of investment by regulated insurance companies.

Hear our panel of leading experts deep-dive these and other recent developments in the structured finance arena.

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Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) now sits firmly on the Boardroom table across the globe with awareness maturity in different markets varying greatly.

Our global panel comes together to compare and contrast recent ESG regulatory developments for fund managers including; Corporate Sustainability Reporting, "greenwashing", US ESG-related investment management regulations and enforcement actions, recent developments with respect to the EU's SFDR and Taxonomy framework, and the increasing importance of ESG considerations for investment managers in Asia Pacific.  

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Despite a decline in the number of corporate bankruptcies, bankruptcy law has continued to evolve over the past year. We've assembled a transatlantic panel to analyze major bankruptcy decisions and trends in the industry, including why the Purdue Pharma decision on third party releases is so important, whether Hertz-like equity bidding wars will continue, if recent changes to court rules are likely to calm the venue debate, and why independent directors are under scrutiny.

Further, the panel will provide a brief overview of the state of the EU restructuring market, including an update on the newer UK restructuring plan process and the other new European regimes. 

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Countries around the world may adopt a novel set of tax rules designed to prevent multinational businesses from avoiding tax on their profits. Referred to as the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) rules, these would subject income earned by companies anywhere in the world to a minimum tax of 15%. And the rules appear to have support in the EU (where they may be adopted in 2022) and the United States.

Join our team for a macro overview of this ambitious new system, an analysis of how US tax laws (including inversion rules) may change due to GLoBE, and possible impacts on the structure and financing of M&A deals and other transactions.