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Businesses in the UK are invariably bought and sold using an auction process, and so I am going to talk about the evolution in the auction process in the UK and draw out certain themes...

Eve Ellis provides an overview of the ESMA report and analyzes key issues addressed in the report, such as the need for greater institutional investor engagement.

The SEC this week adopted final rules that permit a signatory to an SEC filing to electronically sign a document that authenticates his or her typed signature in the filing.

On November 1, 2016, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued interpretive guidance concluding that in Up-C structures the holding period of LLC units or other partnership interests in the subsidiary . . .

On March 4, 2020, the SEC issued an exemptive order providing conditional regulatory relief to public companies affected by the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

SEC Rule 14a-8, the shareholder proposal rule, allows a shareholder who's owned at least $2,000 worth of company stock for at least one year to have a proposal included in the company's proxy...

On March 20, 2018, the Supreme Court held that shareholders may pursue securities class actions alleging false or misleading prospectuses in either state or federal court.

Over the course of the past two years, the SEC has focused enforcement actions on purportedly undisclosed fees and expenses charged by private equity sponsors to funds or portfolio companies.

The Spring 2018 unified regulatory agenda – the so-called "Reg Flex" agenda – came out on May 9.

The UK's new corporate offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion is quite a mouthful, but the title does do a pretty accurate job of describing the offence.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of a False Claims Act ("FCA") complaint in United States ex rel. Shea v. Cellco Partnership, 2014 WL 1394687 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 11, 2014) for failure to meet the statute’s "first-to-file" rule ..

On Friday, November 8, 2019, a jury found the former Alstom executive, Lawrence Hoskins, guilty for his role in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar foreign bribery scheme and a related money laundering

María González Calvet: Welcome to On the Ropes: Enforcement Risk Roundtable, a Ropes & Gray podcast series focused on global anti-corruption and international risk.

For health care companies operating in China, this case is especially noteworthy for the SEC's detailed description of the facts of the case and the Company's remedial efforts, which provide important guidance on compliance practices.

The government also charged that VimpelCom failed to implement and enforce adequate internal accounting controls, which allowed the bribe payments to occur without detection or remediation.

On June 21, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a mandate vacating the DOL's conflict of interest rule and related exemptions (the "fiduciary rule").

The IRS has released guidance to address employers’ questions about the retroactive increase in the monthly income exclusion for certain transportation benefits enacted as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 on January 2, 2013.