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                        <title>U.K. National Security and Investment Bill</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/europe/u-k-national-security-and-investment-bill/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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											Ian Hamilton</dc:creator>
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											Neil Rigby</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ON 11 NOVEMBER 2020 THE UK GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED ITS NATIONAL SECURITY AND INVESTMENT BILL. IF THE BILL IS ENACTED AND COMES INTO FORCE...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ON 11 NOVEMBER 2020 THE UK GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED ITS NATIONAL SECURITY AND INVESTMENT BILL. IF THE BILL IS ENACTED AND COMES INTO FORCE IN SUBSTANTIALLY ITS CURRENT FORM (WHICH SEEMS VERY LIKELY), IT WILL PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT WITH WIDE-RANGING POWERS TO INTERVENE IN TRANSACTIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY GROUNDS AND, IN RELATION TO CERTAIN KEY SECTORS, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/europe/u-k-national-security-and-investment-bill/">U.K. National Security and Investment Bill</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Sun Capital Update: First Circuit Rules Affiliated Investment Funds Not Responsible for Portfolio Company’s Pension Liability, Reversing District Court</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/thought-leadership/sun-capital-update-first-circuit-rules-affiliated-investment-funds-not-responsible-for-portfolio-companys-pension-liability-reversing-district-court/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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											Sarah Downie</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[<p>The most recent decision in the ongoing Sun Capital litigation provides some welcome relief for private equity sponsors invested in portfolio companies subject to pension withdrawal liability. On November 22, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed the 2016 decision of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts that held that two [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/thought-leadership/sun-capital-update-first-circuit-rules-affiliated-investment-funds-not-responsible-for-portfolio-companys-pension-liability-reversing-district-court/">Sun Capital Update: First Circuit Rules Affiliated Investment Funds Not Responsible for Portfolio Company’s Pension Liability, Reversing District Court</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most recent decision in the ongoing Sun Capital litigation provides some welcome relief for private equity sponsors invested in portfolio companies subject to pension withdrawal liability. On November 22, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed the 2016 decision of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts that held that two [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/thought-leadership/sun-capital-update-first-circuit-rules-affiliated-investment-funds-not-responsible-for-portfolio-companys-pension-liability-reversing-district-court/">Sun Capital Update: First Circuit Rules Affiliated Investment Funds Not Responsible for Portfolio Company’s Pension Liability, Reversing District Court</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Partnering With Nonprofits: Navigating a Tax Law Minefield</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/specialist-areas/partnering-with-nonprofits/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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											Mark Hoenig</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Over the past decade or so, the private equity community has shown increasing interest in partnering with nonprofit corporations.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the past decade or so, the private equity community has shown increasing interest in partnering with nonprofit corporations. Often, a private equity firm or one of its portfolio companies hopes to monetize something unique that the nonprofit owns or controls: perhaps the nonprofit’s intellectual property, a network of contracts or relationships, or a brand [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/specialist-areas/partnering-with-nonprofits/">Partnering With Nonprofits: Navigating a Tax Law Minefield</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Quarterly Private Funds Update</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/weils-inaugural-quarterly-private-funds-update/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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											David E. Wohl</dc:creator>
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											Adam Safwat</dc:creator>
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											Christian Tappeiner</dc:creator>
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											Alexander Hasek</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to our inaugural Quarterly Private Funds Update, a publication providing updates on current topics and trends impacting private funds. In this issue, we focus on Investment Advisers Act compliance considerations regarding digital assets; key considerations for private fund managers that are considering corporate structures in light of recent changes in U.S. federal income tax [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/weils-inaugural-quarterly-private-funds-update/">Quarterly Private Funds Update</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to our inaugural Quarterly Private Funds Update, a publication providing updates on current topics and trends impacting private funds. In this issue, we focus on Investment Advisers Act compliance considerations regarding digital assets; key considerations for private fund managers that are considering corporate structures in light of recent changes in U.S. federal income tax [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/weils-inaugural-quarterly-private-funds-update/">Quarterly Private Funds Update</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Usury Bites—A Refresher on an Easily Overlooked Issue in the Restructuring and Private Equity Arenas</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/usury-bites/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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											Glenn D. West</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[Usury, however defined and regardless of the rate at which the concept kicks in, remains a subject of state specific opprobrium. Indeed, those states that proscribe usurious rates of interest typically declare the charging of usurious interest as being contrary to a fundamental public policy of the applicable state.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For millennia usury (defined as any interest on a loan, not just interest above some prescribed rate) was condemned as immoral in almost every culture (and in some it still is).  Even such great thinkers as Aristotle disapproved of the charging of interest, describing it as the “most unnatural” means of “getting wealth” because it [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/usury-bites/">Usury Bites—A Refresher on an Easily Overlooked Issue in the Restructuring and Private Equity Arenas</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>DOJ Intervenes and Files Complaint in False Claims Act Suit Against Private Equity Firm and Others Based on Portfolio Company’s Alleged Illegal Kickback Scheme</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/doj-intervenes-files-complaint/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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											Global Private Equity Watch</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[On February 16, 2018, the DOJ filed a complaint in intervention in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) qui tam/whistleblower suit that had been pending against the following defendants: Diabetic Care RX. LLC d/b/a Patient Care America (“Patient Care”), a pharmacy organized...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On February 16, 2018, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a complaint in intervention in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) qui tam/whistleblower suit that had been pending against the following defendants: Diabetic Care RX. LLC d/b/a Patient Care America (“Patient Care”), a pharmacy organized under Florida law; Riordan, Lewis &#38; Haden, Inc. (RLH), [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/doj-intervenes-files-complaint/">DOJ Intervenes and Files Complaint in False Claims Act Suit Against Private Equity Firm and Others Based on Portfolio Company’s Alleged Illegal Kickback Scheme</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Implications for Portfolio Company Borrowers of Recent Fifth Circuit Decision Vacating DOL Fiduciary Rule</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/portfolio-company-borrowers-recent/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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											Sarah Downie</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[On March 15, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated certain U.S. Department of Labor “fiduciary investment advice” regulations (“the Regulations”) in their entirety, ruling that the DOL exceeded its authority in promulgating them.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On March 15, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated certain U.S. Department of Labor “fiduciary investment advice” regulations (“the Regulations”) in their entirety, ruling that the DOL exceeded its authority in promulgating them.  The Regulations provide that, in general, when a plan or entity subject to ERISA (an “ERISA Plan”) [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/portfolio-company-borrowers-recent/">Implications for Portfolio Company Borrowers of Recent Fifth Circuit Decision Vacating DOL Fiduciary Rule</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Impact of the EU Trade Secrets Directive on M&#038;A Transactions</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/cybersecurity/impact-eu-trade-secrets-directive-ma-transactions/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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											Barry Fishley</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[EU Member States have until 9 June 2018 to implement the Trade Secrets Directive (2016/943/EU) into their national laws. Whilst the new Directive very helpfully aligns the legal protections conferred on trade secrets across the EU, it also contains specific prerequisites for companies wishing to...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EU Member States have until 9 June 2018 to implement the Trade Secrets Directive (2016/943/EU) into their national laws. Whilst the new Directive very helpfully aligns the legal protections conferred on trade secrets across the EU, it also contains specific prerequisites for companies wishing to take advantage of these new protections. Crucially, the Trade Secrets [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/cybersecurity/impact-eu-trade-secrets-directive-ma-transactions/">Impact of the EU Trade Secrets Directive on M&amp;A Transactions</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>IP Diligence Can Really Matter in Private Equity Acquisitions—And That Includes Checking the Grammar Used in Purported Employee IP Assignments</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/ip-diligence-can-really-matter-private-equity-acquisitions-includes-checking-grammar-used-purported-employee-ip-assignments/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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											Glenn D. West</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[<p>All private equity deal professionals know that legal diligence of a target company is a significant part of the overall diligence and deal making process.  But occasionally it is helpful to be reminded of why some of the more specialized legal diligence can be really important.  This is particularly true with respect to intellectual property [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/ip-diligence-can-really-matter-private-equity-acquisitions-includes-checking-grammar-used-purported-employee-ip-assignments/">IP Diligence Can Really Matter in Private Equity Acquisitions—And That Includes Checking the Grammar Used in Purported Employee IP Assignments</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All private equity deal professionals know that legal diligence of a target company is a significant part of the overall diligence and deal making process.  But occasionally it is helpful to be reminded of why some of the more specialized legal diligence can be really important.  This is particularly true with respect to intellectual property [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/ip-diligence-can-really-matter-private-equity-acquisitions-includes-checking-grammar-used-purported-employee-ip-assignments/">IP Diligence Can Really Matter in Private Equity Acquisitions—And That Includes Checking the Grammar Used in Purported Employee IP Assignments</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <title>Transaction-Related Tax Deductions and the Worst Words Ever Spoken by a Deal Professional</title>
                        <link>https://privateequity.weil.com/features/transaction-related-tax-deductions-worst-words-ever-spoken-deal-professional/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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											Glenn D. West</dc:creator>
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                        <description><![CDATA[<p>Contrary to popular belief, Raymond Burr’s character in the famous TV series, Perry Mason, did not necessarily limit his practice to criminal defense.&#160; He was an old-fashioned sole practitioner that, at times, could be seen drafting contracts too (or at least dictating some instructions regarding their preparation to his trusted legal assistant, Della Street (played [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/transaction-related-tax-deductions-worst-words-ever-spoken-deal-professional/">Transaction-Related Tax Deductions and the Worst Words Ever Spoken by a Deal Professional</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contrary to popular belief, Raymond Burr’s character in the famous TV series, Perry Mason, did not necessarily limit his practice to criminal defense.&#160; He was an old-fashioned sole practitioner that, at times, could be seen drafting contracts too (or at least dictating some instructions regarding their preparation to his trusted legal assistant, Della Street (played [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com/features/transaction-related-tax-deductions-worst-words-ever-spoken-deal-professional/">Transaction-Related Tax Deductions and the Worst Words Ever Spoken by a Deal Professional</a> appeared first on <a href="https://privateequity.weil.com">Global Private Equity Watch</a>.</p>
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