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One Big Beautiful Bill: Key Business and Investment Impacts

The Act makes permanent many expiring TCJA provisions and changes key features of US tax law applicable to businesses and investments.

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Latham in Focus Video Series

Latham in Focus: Healthcare & Life Sciences Competition Considerations

In this episode of Latham in Focus, Washington, D.C. partner Mandy Reeves, former Global Chair of Latham’s Band 1 Global Antitrust & Competition Practice, explores the impact of new HSR rules on healthcare and life sciences transactions. Mandy discusses how the new rules offer companies a chance to proactively engage with regulators, and covers what buyers should consider before signing a deal.

Latham In Focus: Recapitalization Opportunities in Real Estate

In this episode of Latham in Focus, New York partner Michael Haas discusses recapitalization in real estate and how it presents opportunities for investors in distressed assets to find liquidity, preserve equity, or increase debt capacity, and provides opportunities for new investors to join with existing sponsors.

Latham in Focus: Energy & Infrastructure — Navigating the FCPA Enforcement Pause

In this episode of Latham in Focus, Daniel Dominguez, Local Co-Chair of the Litigation & Trial Department in the Washington, D.C. office, discusses the implications of the US government’s pause on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement for energy and infrastructure companies, and offers strategies for preparing for potential regulatory changes.

Latham in Focus: Energy & Infrastructure — Investing in Europe’s Data Center Boom

In this episode of Latham in Focus, Alexander “Stefan” Rieger, Regional Chair of the Corporate Department in Continental Europe, outlines key considerations for investors entering Europe’s data center market and highlights major investment opportunities in the region.

Latham in Focus: Energy & Infrastructure — What’s New in Energy Debt Finance?

In this edition of Latham in Focus, Houston partner Craig Kornreich takes stock of the trends in energy debt finance, ranging from the growing list of sources of capital to the enhanced ability to pivot between products such as cash flow, asset-based lending, private credit, and bridge debt.

Latham in Focus: Energy & Infrastructure — Transfer Bridge Loans

In this episode of Latham in Focus, partner Kelly Cataldo explains how transfer bridge loan (TRABL) facilities can bridge capital needs during construction and before payment for tax credits, as well as certain emerging terms as the market develops.

Latham in Focus: Emerging Companies & Growth — Growth vs. Traditional Financings

In this edition of Latham in Focus, Houston counsel Benjamin Gelfand walks through how growth companies’ focus on market share before profitability affects financing structures, and how the array of products available to lenders differ from traditional financings.

The Book of Jargon Series – Word of the Day®

The Book of Jargon® is a series of practice area and industry-specific glossaries published by Latham & Watkins.

Book of Jargon Hedge Funds
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Book of Jargon Restructuring & Special Situations
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Book of Jargon Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Book of Jargon Real Estate & REITs
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Book of Jargon International Arbitration
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Pairs Trading

The Book of Jargon® – Hedge Funds

an investment strategy that involves matching a long position with a short position in two historically correlated stocks.

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Slug

The Book of Jargon® – Restructuring & Special Situations

Technically, any land or acquatic gastropoda mollusk without a shell. Universally detested by gardeners as an obnoxious and highly destructive pest. Think of a snail without a shell. In restructuring, people speak of a Slug of debt generally when they mean a tranche of debt, or sometimes a large quantity of debt.

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Yates Memo

The Book of Jargon® – Healthcare & Life Sciences

named after author Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, the memo formally titled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing” emphasized the Department of Justice’s focus on holding individual corporate executives accountable for corporate wrongdoing. The memo set forth six steps to reinforce the Department of Justice’s pursuit of individual wrongdoing.

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Temporary Taking

The Book of Jargon® – Real Estate & REITs

when a government takes Property by Condemnation for a finite period of time.

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Pathological Arbitration Clause

The Book of Jargon® – International Arbitration

literally, a diseased provision for Arbitration, meaning that the provision is unworkable.
Typically, a clause will be pathological because it provides for conflicting or non existent matters, such as an Arbitral Institution that does not exist or court and Arbitration proceedings at the same time.

Word of the Day®

In each episode of Connected With Latham, we discuss ideas, developments, and trends shaping the global economy.

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