The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its first antitrust decision since obtaining competition law powers four years ago. The decision is a controversial one. It sets the FCA

On April 4, 2019, the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association (DSBA) approved proposed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL),

On October 2, 2018, in a speech to the Economic Club of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo forcefully emphasized the agency's...

Less than a year after the most significant U.S. tax reform legislation since 1986 was signed into law, it is still too early to predict the long-term effects.

On February 28, 2019, the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a no-action letter relaxing its views on "in person" voting requirements for investment company boards of directors.

On November 14, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement released an annual report, apparently the first of its kind.

On May 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 587 U.S. ___, that a debtor's ability to reject executory contracts under Section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code ...

On August 21, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), by a 3-2 vote, issued two separate releases providing interpretive guidance relating

The U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday in Lorenzo v. SEC, No. 17-1077 (2019), that dissemination of false or misleading statements with an intent to defraud ...

As global businesses move more of their data to the cloud, they may unwittingly be placing their sensitive information within the U.S. government's reach.

On 21 February 2019, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), at the U.K. government's request, set out ‘wide-ranging and radical' proposals to reshape U.K. competition enforcement and consumer protection regime.

Augmented reality technology (AR), in which computer-generated images appear superimposed upon a real-world environment,

Following a recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Khoja v. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., plaintiffs alleging securities fraud against companies

The United States has a federal system of government. Accordingly, regulation of M&A activity falls within the dual jurisdiction of the federal government ...

On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 163B and related amendments under the Securities Act to expand...

On January 25, 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law a continuing resolution that immediately reopened the federal government through February 15, 2019.

In August 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018, which significantly reformed national security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

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

The increased use of blockchain technology and, in particular, cryptocurrencies, has given rise to a variety of disputes ...

The U.S. Supreme Court held today in Lorenzo v. SEC, No. 17-1077 (2019), that dissemination of false or misleading statements with an intent to defraud can fall within the scope of Rules 10b-5(a) and (c) of the SEC...