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Empty toothpaste and brush, holding foreign companies accountable act

U.S. Regulators Put Squeeze on Chinese Issuers

Empty toothpaste and brush, holding foreign companies accountable act

Unless your head has been buried in the sand for the past few months (and who could blame you?), you will be acutely aware of escalating tensions between the United States and China. While the coronavirus may dominate the headlines, the mos...

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Caution: Slow Road Ahead

EGCs Say Not So FASB on New Lease Standard

Caution: Slow Road Ahead

You’ve been worried about facemasks. You’ve been worried about antibody tests. You’ve been worried about whether your seventh grader’s brain is atrophying, and also why her school district is sending so very many emails. The last thing you...

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Issuers Get (Halfway) Back Into Spending, Guidance Game

Slowly melting row icicles in a row

As citizens emerge from shelter-in-place orders and the frozen economy thaws, issuers too have begun a return to normalcy (whatever that is). Some public companies have loosened the spending controls they implemented at the start of the pan...

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M&A Lawsuit Holds Answer to Billion-Dollar MAE Question

Rows of empty, numbered baseball stadium seats

The pandemic has given rise to any number of troubling questions: How did it start? Are we “reopening” too soon? Will there be a Major League Baseball season? One such question, with billions of dollars on the line, is this: what happens to...

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Disclosure Describes Strings Attached to PPP Funds

Disclosure Describes Strings Attached to PPP Funds

Disclosure Describes Strings Attached to PPP Funds

The Paycheck Protection Program provided a welcome lifeline to businesses in the midst of the pandemic. But for companies that have cashed their PPP checks, including many public ones, it also presents serious risks. Just ask them. Issuers...

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