The annual working programmes emphasise the persistent regulatory focus on sustainability and tackling greenwashing in the financial markets.

"Resource extraction issuers" with a December 31 fiscal year-end will have to make their first disclosures under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's resource extraction payment disclosure rule this September.

As we welcome 2025, I wanted to share some thoughts on the year ahead for China's and Southeast Asia's private equity investment landscape, based on trends we have seen in 2024.

Ropes & Gray – in conjunction with leading law firms across Europe – has published another update to its monthly CSRD Transposition Tracker. The Tracker describes Corporate Sustainability...

Welcome to the Q1/Q2 2019 edition of our Mergers & Acquisitions newsletter – The Ropes Recap. This includes contributions from over 50 deal professionals from around the globe.

In a case of fundamental constitutional importance, the High Court ruled this morning that the UK Government has no power to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union to withdraw from the European Union, without an Act of Parliament.

The UK Treasury confirmed today that it will amend Article 53 of the Regulated Activities Order (covering the regulated activity of "advising on investments") to bring it into line with...

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have announced the much-anticipated final Hart-Scott-Rodino ("HSR") premerger notification rules and published a new HSR form, completing a rule-making process started in August 2010.

Leucadia National Corporation has agreed to pay $240,000 to settle charges that it violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced on February 4 that they have suspended the practice of granting early termination of the review...

On May 24, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act") ...

Due to travel limitations imposed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, instead of taking trains, buses and cars to commute to work, people are going to work at home.

On December 8, 2020, Massachusetts extended its COVID guidance relating to the sourcing of employee income that was set to expire on December 31, 2020...

A California case cautions buyers and their officers and directors when an acquisition could have a material negative impact on a key technology license.

The California Air Resources Board has published an Enforcement Notice relating to the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (Senate Bill 253).

Private equity in Europe and the UK is entering a new era of growth. Our latest research reveals strong confidence among industry leaders, with over half expecting robust deal activity and nearly all anticipating increased...

As we look ahead to 2025, the landscape of debt financing and M&A activity is poised for significant transformation.

On August 7, 2018, Ropes & Gray filed a comment letter with the SEC regarding the Commission's April 18, 2018 "Proposed Commission Interpretation Regarding Standard of Conduct for Investment Advisers".

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") recently released additional guidance on the definition of "voting equity securities" as applied to the bad actor disqualification rules under Rule 506(d) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

In a decision ratifying the mutual fund industry's long-standing treatment of portfolio concentration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit