The UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has recently issued new guidance on the voluntary alternative end-of-service benefits (EOSB)...

On December 18, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued the final version of new merger...

The Department of Justice announced a landmark $250 million settlement with KKR & Co. for allegedly submitting deficient Hart-Scott-Rodino Act notification forms across at least 16 transactions. This unprecedented penalty, the largest ever for HSR violations, raises critical questions about merger notification compliance obligations and the consequences of systemic noncompliance with federal antitrust review requirements.

Equity funds considering consortium or joint bids can take comfort in a recent U.S. District Court decision.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final rule and interpretive guidance implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act...

Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which provides for equal contract rights for all persons, regardless of “skin color,” has long been interpreted as prohibiting race-based employment discrimination.

On June 19, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in a much-anticipated decision, Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (No. 06-1505), ruling that an employer defending against a disparate impact age bias claim, and not the employee making the charge, bears the burden of proving that the adverse action was based on a reasonable factor other than age.

Employers may be liable for discrimination even though the final decision maker had no discriminatory intent.

Elizabeth McGinley joins Sylvia Leyva Martinez on Wood Mackenzie's Interchange Recharged podcast to discuss the evolving carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) regulatory landscape.

How can energy companies design cost-effective legal and regulatory compliance programs? Law enforcement and regulatory landscapes were reordered seismically early in the decade. In the emergent new topography, energy companies are policed more rigorously for compliance with the many legal, regulatory and contractual obligations under which they operate.

A recent ruling in United States District Court has upheld Congressional legislation aimed at encouraging companies to enter into business relationships with Indian tribes by freeing contracts from cumbersome and potentially costly review by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Digital infrastructure is the dominant theme in energy and infrastructure, real estate and technology markets.

Last week the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced final guidance for voluntary carbon credit (VCC) derivatives contracts traded on CFTC-regulated designated contract markets (DCMs).

=On this episode of the Bracewell Environmental Law Monitor, host Daniel Pope and environment, lands and resources partner Whit Swift talk with Kyle Breeze...

Since the 1980s, Chevron deference has set the standard for when courts should defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes.

On October 3, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Although the Act authorizes and mandates the Treasury Department to address a series of important issues, of key concern to financial institutions is the current status of "mark-to-market" accounting standards.

On October 15, 2008, the Securities Exchange Commission published an interim final rule 10a-3T under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that requires institutional investment managers to file Form SH until August 1, 2009.

Plaintiffs allege that patent claims of a group of eight patents directed to in vitro diagnostic tests are unconstitutional under the First Amendment and Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

The Bush administration is renewing its prior efforts to reign in foreign hiring abuses through two recently announced measures.

Having granted a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the "Ninth Circuit") in Amalgamated Bank et al v. Facebook...