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As companies face potential shifts in congressional power and evolving regulatory landscapes, boards must navigate new SEC enforcement priorities, state-level AI regulations, and shareholder activism trends. This comprehensive guide examines how organizations can proactively prepare for investigations, comply with divergent state laws, and strengthen crisis management protocols in an increasingly complex governance environment.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is considering how smart contract applications on the blockchain implicate its jurisdiction and enforcement authority.

In recent weeks, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has continued to expand his efforts to eradicate the use of no-poach agreements by employers.

As anticipated, securities class action filings remained high in 2018, with more than 400 filings in federal court, and the number is expected to remain high in 2019.

Although the U.S. M&A market has remained relatively strong by historical standards so far in 2019, activity has softened compared to the higher levels in 2017 and 2018,

On September 5, 2019, the Treasury Department (Treasury) and the IRS released proposed regulations (Regulations)

The court also determined that the securities fraud laws under which Zaslavskiy was charged were not unconstitutionally vague as applied to his alleged conduct.

In the middle of February 2019, Brexit continues to be debated between Westminster and Brussels, despite the rapidly approaching deadline for the United Kingdom (U.K.) to leave the European Union (EU) on March 29, 2019.

The renewable energy sector has benefited in recent years from its growing cost-competitiveness, favorable climate change-related policies, and significant new capital investment from traditional and nontraditional debt ...

On March 28, 2019, the Oversight Board of the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC)1 released a report identifying "serious and systematic defects in Huawei's software engineering and cyber security competence."

On May 6, 2019, Skadden hosted the Cross-Border M&A Conference 2019, titled "Developments and Trends in US and Japanese M&A."

On December 19, 2018, the Delaware Court of Chancery held that forum selection provisions contained in the certificate of incorporation of Delaware corporations are invalid.

New York City has enacted the nation's first municipal click-to-cancel rule, requiring businesses to provide clear disclosures, simple cancellation processes, and advance renewal notices for subscription services. With approximately 30 states already implementing similar regulations and the federal landscape in flux following the FTC's vacated rule, companies now face an increasingly complex patchwork of compliance obligations. The rule takes effect October 1, 2026, and imposes penalties ranging from $525 t

On August 21, 2018, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-68, which provides eagerly awaited guidance for changes that were made to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) with respect to identifying covered employees and applying the transition rule under Code Section 162(m).

As recently noted, Saba Capital Management, L.P. (Saba) has begun to escalate its attacks on the closed-end fund asset class, at the expense of retail fund shareholders

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings comprise a large and growing portion of the federal civil docket. According to Lawyers for Civil Justice

California has enacted SB 1050, a groundbreaking law requiring clear disclosure when AI-generated synthetic performers appear prominently in advertisements. The legislation, which takes effect January 1, 2027, aims to protect consumers from being misled by artificial intelligence-created digital figures and voices while establishing enforcement mechanisms through existing false advertising statutes.