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Chile's Congress has approved a groundbreaking tax stability regime that allows foreign investors to lock in their tax burden for up to 20 years on qualifying investments of USD 50 million or more. The new law introduces investment contracts with the Chilean State, mandatory mediation procedures, and arbitration mechanisms for dispute resolution, though several critical aspects await regulatory clarification. How will these provisions interact with existing investment treaties, and what strategies should in

The events in the Gulf region have disrupted supply chains for gas, petroleum, and aluminum, prompting force majeure claims under supply contracts. This analysis examines the legal framework for determining when force majeure provisions apply, exploring the three critical elements—definition, affected obligations, and extent of impact—and their application in the context of the Iran War and its effects on production facilities, vessel movements, and delivery obligations.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") has updated its guidance on merger control jurisdiction and procedure ("CMA2"), together with its template merger notice and guidance on the CMA's mergers intelligence...

On May 31, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and the Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") released proposed rules relating to the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program...

Key Takeaway: The PTAB has returned to a more flexible and discretionary approach to denying post-grant proceedings, reintroducing the Fintiv factors and adding new considerations...

Companies deploying and developing Artificial Intelligence ("AI") face a critical intellectual property dilemma: How should I protect AI trade secrets in a regulatory landscape that demands transparency? Indeed...

On May 1, 2023 the Indiana governor signed the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act, making Indiana the seventh state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law.

Generative artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being integrated in legal workflows, including patent practice.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a proposed suite of new cybersecurity rules for market participants and entities in mid-March 2023.

The IRS published Notice 2022-51 on October 10, 2022, calling for public comments on the prevailing wage, apprenticeship, domestic content, and energy communities requirements of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ...

Broad chemical genus claims represent valuable pharmaceutical patent assets, yet face increasing judicial scrutiny under written description and enablement requirements. Recent Federal Circuit and Supreme Court decisions have reinforced that broader claims demand more robust supporting disclosures, requiring applicants to carefully consider specification strategies when seeking expansive chemical claim coverage.

The U.S. Department of Justice's newly established National Fraud Enforcement Division has released its first corporate enforcement directive, outlining an aggressive "all-tools" approach to prosecuting fraud in healthcare, government contracting, tax, and trade. How will this directive reshape corporate compliance strategies and what factors will determine whether companies receive declinations or face prosecution?

Last week, the Second Circuit issued a potentially significant decision in an insider-trading case on remand from the Supreme Court. While the Court's decision was not necessarily unexpected...

On March 21, 2025, a unanimous Supreme Court held in Thompson v. United States that a federal statute prohibiting "false" statements to banks, 18 USC § 1014, does not apply to statements that are merely misleading.

Judge Alan D. Albright took the bench in September 2018, creating a surge in the number of patent infringement cases filed in the Waco Division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.

On December 12, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") and the Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") published final regulations (the "final regulations")

The attack also resulted in an outage of the KPC platform for several weeks, disrupting operations and services to its customers and their employees.

Today, March 4, 2025, the previously announced tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico are officially effective. As noted in our previous update, U.S.