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California's new corporate climate disclosure requirements have sucked up most of the attention, especially since the lawsuit challenging those requirements filed last week by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Today's post took an unexpected turn. We were planning to write about yesterday's California Air Resources Board (CARB) public workshop on SB 253 and SB 261, which require subject companies to report on greenhouse...

This alert is a follow-up to our October 9, 2023 alert regarding Fair Investment Practices by Investment Advisers ("SB 54")...

With the end of the year right around the corner and potential tax changes looming, now is the time to focus on your charitable giving.

In a video posted on X on January 31, 2024, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida will begin enforcing violations of its anti-ESG legislation....

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 October 11, 2024, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") announced its settlement of cease-and-desist proceedings against...

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.

On June 27, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal brought by Ropes & Gray of the Fourth Circuit's decision in PEM Entities LLC v. Eric M. Levin & Howard Shareff.

California's Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (Assembly Bill 1305) was signed into law in October.

A quarterly recap of mergers and acquisition law news from the M&A team at Ropes & Gray LLP.

California Governor Gavin Newsom released the state's proposed 2024-2025 budget on Wednesday. Due to an estimated 2024 budget shortfall of almost $38 billion, the Governor's...

On December 13, 2011, U.S. authorities brought criminal and civil charges against a group of former executives of German engineering company Siemens AG and its Argentine subsidiary for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

On February 26, 2020, a Connecticut federal judge overturned a former Alstom SA executive's foreign bribery convictions after finding that prosecutors had failed to prove that the defendant

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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.

In recent months there has been a lot of focus on how the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)'s 2022 final rule on fiduciary investment duties (the so called "ESG rule") impacts...