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Womble Carlyle's Economic Development Digest aggregates news, opportunities and legislation impacting business in the United States.

On Friday, January 10, 2020, President Trump issued a new Executive Order, "Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Additional Sectors of Iran" ("E.O."), ...

Finance transformation is the phrase that has lost its meaning. In private equity, financial engineering stopped delivering expected returns, and operational value creation moved to the center of the playbook. Finance transformation held promise as the way to achieve value creation, and the term became universal. Vendors and service providers used it as a strategy to market their offerings, whether a system implementation or a dashboard build, and to justify long, expensive engagements.

Legal departments are investing heavily in AI with unanimous plans to increase budgets, yet 83% lack formal metrics to measure return on investment. While teams report productivity gains and favorable outcomes...

From Oct. 26 to Oct. 30, the firm is celebrating Pro Bono Week. It celebrates pro bono participation and those who give their time and talents across many professions to make a positive difference...

A perfect storm of labor shortages, material volatility, economic uncertainty, and accelerating adoption of advanced technologies in the construction industry is reshaping project delivery and, with it...

On May 19, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved the Helping Families Save their Homes Act of 2009 (the "Act"), which amends the Hope for Homeowners Program and contains various provisions related to home loan foreclosures and modifications.

After a tumultuous week on Wall Street and in Washington, the President signed on Friday, October 3 the $700 billion financial bailout bill, H.R. 1424 – P.L. 110-343.

With crude oil prices tumbling nearly 60 percent since June 2014 to near six-year lows, the decline in energy company stocks alone has erased more than $263 billion in market value.

On October 3, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 ("Act"), which has few if any precedents in scope, national attention, and potential impact on the US economy, especially with regard to the real estate market.

In previous recessions, outsourcing activity has actually increased. Is history likely to repeat itself? And, if it does, what particular features of the current outsourcing and offshoring industries are outsourcers likely to use most?

On July 9th, the U.S. Treasury Department published guidance (“Guidance Materials”) for applicants seeking cash grants for qualifying renewable energy projects pursuant to Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”).

On November 17, 2008, Treasury released a standard form term sheet detailing the terms and conditions of the preferred stock and warrant offerings under the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) Capital Purchase Program (CaPP) for private institutions.

This Digest is designed to assist you in understanding the principal features of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. This piece acts as a topical digest of the legislation, highlighting the principal features and topics. We've provided this resource to help you determine how this legislation might affect your business and legal affairs.

The FDIC issued a financial institution letter (FIL-50-2009, the “Letter”) in which it advised the banking industry that it was extending its special supervisory period for "de novo" state member depository institutions (“DIs”) from three to seven years.

The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (the “Staff”) issued a no-action letter in which it provided assurances that it would not recommend enforcement action under Section 17(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

On October 14, 2008, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued three formal rulemaking orders effectively extending the “naked short selling” rules implemented under an emergency order issued on September 17, 2008 (the “September Emergency Order”).