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For any attorney with a client contemplating a merger or acquisition, familiarity with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. § 18a (the "HSR Act" or the "Act") is essential. Failure to understand and comply with the requirements of the HSR Act can result in delays in consummating a transaction, make eventual compliance more burdensome, and, in the case of non-compliance, result in rescission of the transaction and significant civil fines. The purpose of this brochur

With New Year's behind us and roughly four and a half months to go until the calendar 2015 conflict minerals filings are due, many companies are ramping up their compliance efforts in earnest.

On Sept. 30, 2026, Senate negotiators announced agreement on the text of the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” a long-awaited bill to reform and expedite federal environmental and energy permitting. The 417-page bill is the product of intensive negotiations among the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee that began early in the 119th Congress.

This is a brief survey of many of the environmental and regulatory laws passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor in the 88th Regular Session of the Legislature...

We expand on these concepts and discuss other aspects of the Regulation in the FAQs below.

FTI Consulting's Stuart Amor, Jose Alzate and Thomas Maassen authored a chapter for the fifth edition of the Global Arbitration Review's "The Guide to Damages in International Arbitration"...

Welcome to the June 15, 2020 edition of our Class & Collective Action Group Newsletter, a briefing on recent developments in the class and collective action space.

Last year the Legislature passed a noncode section of law that prohibited through July 1, 2004, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management ("IDEM") and the Air, Water and Waste Boards from adopting a new rule or policy that would be more stringent than what is established in a related federal rule or policy. This prohibition applies only to rules and policies affecting the following industries:

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which had been drilling a subsurface oil well in the Mississippi Canyon 252 area of the Gulf of Mexico, 42 miles southeast of the Louisiana coast and 130 miles southeast of New Orleans.

In Jan. 2005, GOP leaders, buoyed by strong election results in 2004, began the first session of the 109th Congress with an ambitious legislative agenda. The first ten Republican bills introduced in the Senate concerned issues such as Social Security reform, tax-cuts, class-action lawsuit reform, and a comprehensive energy policy. While Republicans managed to pass much of their proposed legislation, including a federal energy policy that emphasized enhanced production, a Central American free-tr

The U.S. legal system consists of many levels of codified and uncodified federal, State, and local laws. The government's regulatory authority at each level may originate from constitutions, statutes, administrative...

Last year the Legislature passed a noncode section of law that prohibited through July 1, 2004, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management ("IDEM") and the Air, Water and Waste Boards from adopting a new rule or policy that would be more stringent than what is established in a related federal rule or policy. This prohibition applies only to rules and policies affecting the following industries:

In August of 2004, Arch Coal, Inc. ("Arch") successfully rebutted the Federal Trade Commission’s ("FTC" or "Commission") claim that the acquisition by Arch of Triton Coal Company, LLC ("Triton") would substantially lesson competition among leading coal producers in Wyoming’s Southern Powder River Basin ("SPRB"). On August 16, 2004, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the FTC’s request to enjoin the acquisition pending an administrative hearing.1 Four days later, the U.S