It seems very plausible that Italy will be the first country in the world to implement a new crowdfunding for equity law way ahead of the promising US law.
Yet, the number of women equity partners in law firms is pathetically small.
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It seems that Italy will surpass the JOBS Act in the implementation of the first equity crowdfunding law in the world.
KKR's early success owed partly to relationships it developed with experts at trusted firms like Simpson Thacher, still one of the leading private equity law practices.
If management insists on continuing to use vague and subjective performance criteria that have repeatedly been shown to play such a large role in excluding women from executive suites, Boards of Directors and the offices of equity and managing partners worldwide, applying the force of the law may be the only answer.
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There are two bases of transferee liability: at law and in equity.
The agreement also gives Mr. Schulze a waiver of Minnesota anti-takeover law and allows him to work with his private equity partners to develop a definite proposal to the board of directors of Best Buy.
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At large law firms, women make up just 15% of equity partners, according to a survey released in October by the National Association of Women Lawyers.
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That experience, says a lawyer who knows Miers well, should lead her to interpret the law strictly without bending it to fit larger notions of social equity.
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SEB's equity holdings in response to a law restricting banks' ownership of shares.
This law could perhaps be justified on grounds of equal treatment: the private-equity firms would be on a more even footing with other listed companies.
In many important ways, the JOBS Act turns its back on several decades of established securities law practice, which has led to significant restraints on how equity can be raised in the private markets.
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When Leslie and I were coming up in the practice of law, firms large, medium and small, tended to make associates equity partners if they were great lawyers and showed promise as productive shepherds of existing business.
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Richard Farley, a law partner who partly makes his living structuring private equity deals, found an excellent venue for his defense of the private equity industry.
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It was a close thing, since by making it a matter of equity the judge is in fact admitting that M Jewell LLC had the letter of the law on its side.
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On April 5th 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS Act (shorthand for Jumpstart Our Business Startups) into law, which changed numerous components of the Securities Act of 1933, and is the legislation that largely deregulates equity crowdfunding.
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Mark Tinker, an analyst with Commerzbank in London, reckons that around half of Germany's equity market is currently tied up in cross-holdings that might be disposed of once the law changes.
Three of the nation's top investment banks, three of the nation's top law firms, a prominent auditor, the SEC, and a top private equity firm (Refco's largest shareholder) all failed to uncover the fraud.
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