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President Donald J. Trump has announced his intention to nominate Makan Delrahim to lead the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Par arrêt du 25 novembre 20201, la Cour de cassation a opéré un revirement de sa jurisprudence sur la question du transfert de la responsabilité pénale entre société

In 2022, for the first time in 15 years, the Federal Reserve rapidly raised the federal funds rate in response to an increase in the rate of inflation not seen in four decades.

On March 18, 2020, the government enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) (to be put into effect by April 2, 2020 at the latest).

Eighteen years ago this week, eBay, Inc. filed its petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court challenging a Federal Circuit decision that applied its "general rule...

The U.S. Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (CISADA) of 2010, which was signed into law on July 1, expands the extraterritorial reach of the prior Iranian sanctions provisions and imposes new responsibilities on U.S. companies, including financial institutions.

In the early 2000s, arbitral institutions began to introduce rules allowing for the appointment of an emergency arbitrator – a sole arbitrator appointed on an expedited basis to deal with claims...

Courts are taking destruction of evidence seriously. Recently, in Victor Stanley Inc. v. Creative Pipe Inc., No. MJG-06-2662, 2010 WL 3530097 (D. Md. Sept. 9, 2010), Judge Paul Grimm found the defendant in contempt of court for spoliation and sentenced him to up to two years in jail, unless he pays plaintiff’s costs.

In the face of financial distress, in recent years numerous companies have engaged in complex financial restructuring transactions intended to de-lever, generate additional liquidity, prolong maturity dates...

Earlier this year, in a 64-page decision, Judge Victor Marrero of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that "Moments"—Dapper Labs' NBA Top Shot...

On September 14, 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") released its long-awaited proposal for a regulation prohibiting products made with forced labor on the Union market ("Proposal").

This article on the adoption of U.S. economic sanctions and export controls against the Chinese tech giant TikTok closes our three-part overview of economic sanctions against China.

U.S. agencies have been priming the enforcement engine by, among other things, issuing export controls and economic sanctions guidance at a high frequency since Russia's further invasion of Ukraine.

This newsletter reports on U.S. legal matters relevant to Japanese companies. This edition covers U.S. court cases and cross-border transactions from the winter of 2023-24. Among other things...

On October 7, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce's ("Commerce") Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") made available for public inspection two significant new export control rules, both aimed at controlling the flow of technology to China.

The Delaware Chancery Court has issued two decisions insisting that market practice does not trump specific requirements of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL").

The determination by the Financial Stability Oversight Council that MetLife, Inc. could "pose a threat to the financial stability of the United States" was recently rescinded by the District Court for the District of Columbia.