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In early February 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its intent to file statements of interest in multiple ongoing private lawsuits to clarify how "no-poach"agreements should be evaluated

Private equity (PE) fundraising in Europe hit €91.9 billion in 2017, the highest it has been since 2006.1 Of that amount, €71.7 billion was invested in European companies, an increase of 29 percent...

On October 30, 2018, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly invited comment on a proposed regulation.

For multiple decades now, LNG export projects developed and constructed around the world have consistently appealed to lenders involved in project financings.

In the past year, nearly a dozen companies have taken advantage of new rules to list on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx).

On December 10, 2018, Olympus Medical Systems Corporation and a former quality manager at the company pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

There is an ongoing debate regarding the role of publicly traded for-profit business corporations in addressing the many serious challenges confronting society, including some directly

The Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division has issued new guidance outlining aggressive enforcement priorities targeting corporate fraud schemes. The directive emphasizes heightened scrutiny of healthcare fraud, government contract violations, revenue evasion, and tariff-related misconduct, while establishing specific criteria that will trigger more severe charging decisions.

On the heels of a widely reported decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit holding that an insured was covered by a computer fraud policy for social engineering-related loss ...

On July 17, 2018, less than two months after the GDPR went into effect, Japan and the European Union agreed to recognize each other's data protection regimes as providing adequate protections for personal data.

Antitrust treatment of no-poach agreements continues to evolve as private cases progress, state attorneys general ramp up enforcement efforts

On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 163B and related amendments under the Securities Act to expand the permitted use of "testingthe-waters"

Legal battles over the antitrust treatment of no-poach agreements continue to escalate with new district court decisions and new pronouncements from two "titans" of antitrust policy

The September 2018 edition of Employment Flash summarized the requirements of the U.K. Equality Act 2010 Regulations 2017

The SEC has proposed a comprehensive modernization of transfer agent rules that would explicitly permit blockchain technology to serve as the official ownership record for securities. The proposal introduces new requirements for tokenized securities reporting, record-keeping controls, and securityholder identification while addressing how distributed ledger technology can integrate with traditional securities infrastructure.

The Trump administration has announced two initiatives aimed at addressing U.S. national security risks arising from the use of non-U.S. technology generally

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it will hold a series of public hearings examining whether changes in the economy

One of the foremost threats companies face today is that posed by cybercriminals, and the unique vulnerabilities of companies in the oil and gas sector create