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Yesterday, the SEC announced the formation of a Climate and ESG Task Force in the Division of Enforcement.

On April 4, 2024, the SEC issued a stay of its final climate-related disclosure rules. The SEC adopted the long-awaited final rules in March after receiving more than 24,000 comment letters...

After 30 years of piecemeal guidance, the Commission has issued proposed Investment Company Act Rule 18f-4, which represents a comprehensive approach to the regulation of derivatives as "senior securities."

Last week, amidst the focus on the coronavirus, the Securities and Exchange Commission made progress on its short-term rulemaking agenda by amending...

As the founder of a startup, you'd love to reward your employees with hefty holiday bonuses, but your business is bootstrapped and cash is, undoubtedly, in somewhat short supply.

In this article published by Law360, Matthew Martens, Jaclyn Moyer and James Lux discuss the inevitable implication of the Supreme Court's reasoning in Kokesh v. SEC.

On July 30, 2014, David W. Ogden, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States and current partner with WilmerHale, urged Congress to amend the False Claims Act while testifying before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

This past year marked the 40th anniversary of the FCPA. Since its enactment in 1977, the DOJ has brought approximately 300 FCPA enforcement actions, while the SEC has brought approximately 200 cases.

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement activity was aggressive in 2021, despite the global economic slowdown related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

WilmerHale attorneys from the Investigations and Criminal Litigation and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practices co-authored a chapter in the inaugural edition of Global Investigations Review’s "The Investigations Review of the Americas 2015." WilmerHale Partners Stephen A. Jonas, Daniel F. Schubert and Counsel David Zetlin-Jones collaborated on the chapter titled "United States: handling internal investigations."

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kellogg Brown & Root v. United States ex rel. Carter, No. 12-1497, a case presenting two important issues under the False Claims Act (FCA).

Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published its final Environmental Assessment (EA) for wind energy development offshore North Carolina.

On October 30, 2015, the SEC completed final regulations implementing the JOBS Act, which was passed in April, 2012.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) yesterday announced a proposed update to its regulations for oil and gas development in wildlife refuges.

Last week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released an initial list of actions to implement Executive Order 13807...

Special Counsel Rachel Jacobson and Senior Associate Matthew Ferraro published an opinion piece in The Hill that explains the not widely known role Congress' defense policymakers have in preventing and responding to Western wildfires.

Rachel Jacobson and Matthew Ferraro authored their second annual analysis of how the US's massive yearly defense authorization legislation could impact...