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Posted by Damian G. Didden and Christina C. Ma, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Thursday, February 27, 2020 Damian G. Didden is a partner and Christina C. Ma is an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. This post is based on their Wachtell memorandum.Recently, the World Economic Forum…

Every year, sustainability comes up at the World Economic Forum (WEF), focusing largely on low-carbon energy. But this year I sensed that like me, the other business leaders who met in Davos will go back to their companies with a renewed mission to work through how our organizations will steer…

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra   He was speaking at a CII event in Kolkata. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday said suspicious transactions relating to GST is going up, while ₹46,000 crore is yet to be recovered from penal interest charges arising out of delayed GSTR…

For the better part of a decade, observers of Japan’s conservative film industry have predicted that its repeatedly utilized formula would begin to fail. That is to say, audiences would tire of the continued churn of films adapted from legacy content, such as manga and television programs. It hasn’t happened.…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…

IT IS PROBABLY the first time in years that Lebanon has wanted to turn down a loan. With the economy in free fall the country’s new government, seated in January after months of horse-trading, has reluctantly turned to the IMF for help. They held a first round of talks on…

World leaders, executives, bankers, and policymakers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World ... Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 - 24. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month, a group of 140 of the world’s largest…

Browsing the agenda for last year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, it’s reasonable to think that “cryptocurrency” was quite literally the Topic Which Shall Not be Named. Not a single session referred to digital currencies, and yet the underlying blockchain technology was very much on the agenda. Industry…

Hao Li and the team from Pinscreen recently demonstrated real-time interactive face replacement, effectively allowing people to walk up to a screen and see themselves in a live, real-time ‘deepfake’. The installation was at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland. The WEF was held in Davos, a town in…

theearnestproject EARNE$T announces the upcoming auction of The Davos Collection, a portfolio of artifacts covertly harvested during the 2018 WEF at Davos. The Collection presents the unique opportunity to gain genetic insights into a most influential population and a class traditionally resilient to data collection. 2018 Davos attendees included Donald…