Insights
Healthcare & Life Sciences: Drug Pricing Digest — Number 77
SEC Proposes to Make Electronic Delivery the New Normal
FCA Proposes Reforms to Remuneration Codes
Resource
The Latham US IPO Guide
An insider's guide to the IPO process in the United States.
Latham In Focus Video Series
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.
Tagging
the act of classifying documents in Review Software as responsive, not relevant, Privileged, interesting, etc. In the olden days, lawyers physically applied tags to paper documents one by one. They also had to walk three hours uphill in the snow to work each day, both ways.
Grandfathering
the use of a Property that violates current Zoning laws but is permitted as such use predates the enactment of such laws.
Bullet (Maturity)
when the entire principal of a Bond or Term Loan is due and payable on the Maturity Date (i.e., there is little or no Amortization prior to Maturity). Bullet (Maturity) is also known as a Balloon Payment.
Salam
an Islamic finance term meaning a Shari’ah-compliant forward contract (i.e., a forward contract structured to avoid the Gharar or Maisir in a conventional forward contract).
Boolean Search
a search conducted in databases using keywords and connectors (e.g., “and,” “or,” “not”) to include or exclude terms from search results.

