Preparing for Fiscal-Year End SEC Filings and Annual Shareholder Meetings

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Mintz Antitrust and Government Law attorneys examine an FTC proposed rule that would ban almost all non-compete provisions in employment relationships. They also discuss why employers should consider auditing non-compete policies and practices and exploring alternatives such as non-disclosure or customer non-solicitation agreements.

Innovators developing IP strategies for 2023 are reflecting on last year’s key IP issues, including entity size designations for US patent applications, erasures of patent damage awards due to flawed expert opinions, and developments involving the ITC, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and inter partes reviews.

Mintz Private Equity Practice Co-chair Matthew Simpson spoke to Middle Market Growth for a special report on the 2023 outlook for M&A deal activity and private equity transactions. He commented on the decline of so-called “walkaway deals,” where sellers are subject to long-term exit conditions.

Mintz Member Poonam Patidar led a Public Finance team in advising the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on a $2.6 billion bond honored as Bond Buyer’s ESG Deal of the Year and Smith’s Research 2022 All-Star Deal of the Year. The transaction builds on the firm’s extensive deal activity in the public finance field.

Mintz Member Jason Halperin and Associate Edmund Daley co-authored an article for the New York Law Journal focusing on the regulation of digital assets and deals. They look at which federal agency is likely to take the lead role and how that could affect whether crypto assets are treated as securities.