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Month: August 2020

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Issuers Get Proactive in Disclosing Wells Notices

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When an issuer gets a “Wells Notice,” it must ask itself two questions. The first is “what’s my lawyer’s phone number?” After all, getting a Wells Notice—a note from the SEC warning the recipient that it may bring charges for securities vio...

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COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

COVID-19 Drives 600% Increase in Disease-Related Risk Factors

Want a reminder of how much the world has changed in 2020? Well, we’re giving you one anyway. At this point last year, fewer than 200 public companies cited “health epidemics and diseases” on their annual 10-K as a risk factor facing their...

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Moneyball SPAC Seeks Sports Bargains

Moneyball Savant Seeks Bargains at Sports SPAC

Moneyball SPAC Seeks Sports Bargains

As general manager of the Oakland A’s, Billy Beane was so good at discovering undervalued assets that Michael Lewis wrote a book about him and Brad Pitt played him in a movie. That’s some good bargain hunting. Now, he’s doing it again, only...

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