Insights

On April 6, 2018, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs and 12 companies they own or control, as well as 17 senior Russian government officials, a state-owned Russian weapons-trading company and its bank subsidiary. The sanctions create both “primary” or “secondary” sanctions risks for both U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons. Concurrently, OFAC issued two general licenses permitting certain transactions and activities necessary to wind down dealings with or divest interests in certain of the sanctioned companies.

At the midpoint of the much-anticipated AT&T/Time Warner trial, partners Shepard Goldfein and Karen Hoffman Lent discuss how a vertical mega-merger from a few years ago — and a familiar face from that case — may provide some clues of what is to come.

On March 28, 2018, Skadden hosted the webinar “Navigating the Current Landscape of Shareholder Activism,” the fifth and final program in the 2017-18 SEC Reporting & Compliance and Corporate Governance Series. The panelists were Skadden M&A partners Richard Grossman and Martha McGarry; Matthew Sherman, president of Joele Frank; Greg Taxin, managing director at Spotlight Advisors; and Scott Winter, managing director at Innisfree M&A Incorporated.