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This week the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, announced that the Main Street Lending Program, which will provide economic relief to medium size businesses with fewer than 15,000 employees...

Improper deductions based on inflated art valuations are now in the agency's crosshairs, part of an ongoing expansion of audit and investigations into charitable deductions for art donations.

On August 25, the SEC adopted the highly controversial "proxy access" rules requiring company proxy materials to provide shareholders with information about, and an ability to vote for, shareholder-nominated candidates for director.

Feb. 19, 2025 — Among the flurry of executive orders (EO) issued on his first day in office, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency related to an extraordinary threat posed by international criminal cartels.

On October 11, 2016, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to a debt collection agency in its appeal from the Eleventh Circuit case Johnson v. Midland Funding, LLC.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented closures and quarantines that have raised many questions regarding the effect of statutory and court-imposed deadlines relating to...

Most language we fight about when negotiating complicated contractual arrangements never leads to an expensive courtroom dispute.

The Wendy's Company has won dismissal of the consumer class action lawsuit filed against it in the wake of its widely reported data breach.

On January 17, 2013, the United States Treasury Department released final regulations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

In its recent decision in In re Peregrine Financial Group, the Seventh Circuit became the first circuit to accept a definition of "customer property" which excludes retail foreign exchange contracts ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the "Federal Circuit") recently upheld the U.S. Department of Commerce’s ("Commerce") narrow interpretation of the scope of section 129 determinations in ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni S.p.A et.

On April 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") published three amendments to the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR") that are expected to ...

In January 2024, the European Union ("EU") adopted two autonomous sanctions programs related to the situation in Guatemala and Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (the "PIJ").

This week the federal government provided additional fiscal stimulus under the CARES Act, with an allocation of $480 billion to the private sector, mainly to small businesses

You better watch out. It won't help to cry, but feel free to pout. We're telling you why: the SEC is coming to town. Yes, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

On August 6, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") issued an order (the "Approval Order") approving rules proposed by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq").

The implied certification theory of liability has been widely criticized among the defense bar for creating too much uncertainty for government contractors and others who present claims for payment to the government.

Section 1110 of the Bankruptcy Code provides special protections to lenders and lessors that lease, finance, or conditionally sell aircraft equipment.