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On September 3, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a class action complaint arising from a credit card "skimming" attack suffered by Barnes & Noble in 2012.

On March 11, 2013, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled in Tyler v. Michaels Stores, Inc. that a retailer’s collection of ZIP codes while processing credit cards can violate Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93, § 105(a), a Massachusetts statute restricting the collection of personal identification information during credit card transactions.

The deadline for compliance with a key requirement of the Massachusetts Data Security Regulation, 201 CMR 17.00 et seq. (the "Regulation") is less than a month away.

The last 12 months have seen a steady increase in restructuring and stressed or distressed financing transactions in the European market across a range of sectors...

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the largest recorded hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin, many of our clients are facing significant business disruptions.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other global taxing authorities are continuing to focus on bringing taxpayers who hold cryptocurrencies into compliance.

In a speech delivered on the 24 November 2023 at the EFAMA Investment Management Forum in Brussels, ESMA Chair, Verena Ross, outlined the key sustainability-related focus points...

The Chinese State Council recently announced the draft amendment of the Food Safety Law ("Draft Amendment") for public comments through November 29, 2013

On Friday 24 January 2020, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority ("the FCA") hosted an insightful webinar on "using assessment as a tool to understand culture".

On March 15, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the DOL's conflict of interest rule and related exemptions (the "fiduciary rule").

The U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have issued an amendment to the June 17, 2010 interim final rules on grandfathered health plan status for group health plans under the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

The settlement papers detail a scheme in which senior Petrobras executives inflated the cost of infrastructure projects by deliberately overpaying its largest contractors.

The China Food and Drug Administration ("CFDA") recently announced several draft rules, most notably, the Draft Amendment of the Provisions for Drug Registration (also known as the Drug Registration Rules, DRR) and the Draft Administrative Regulations on the Review and Approval of Drug Contract Manufacturing ("Draft Contract Manufacturing Rules), which will significant impact the pharmaceutical industry. The CFDA is soliciting public comments on both Rules through early December, 2013.

On January 10, 2018, the China Food and Drug Administration announced the implementation of the Technical Guidelines Governing Acceptance of Medical Device Clinical Data from Foreign Studies.

The China Food and Drug Administration ("CFDA") recently proposed a draft circular to address the priority review designation issue for medical devices, namely the Circular Regarding Soliciting Comments Regarding Priority Review Designation Procedure for Medical Devices (CFDA Circular [2016] No.40, the "Circular").

The State Food and Drug Administration recently announced a set of technical guidelines for switching prescription drugs to over-the-counter drugs.

The Council of the European Union has, on 1 December 2014, published a provisional version of a press release announcing its decision not to object to the adoption by the Commission of a regulation on the notification of significant net short positions in sovereign debt.

On 16 October 2019, the Bank of England ("BoE") and Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published a joint report on the use of machine learning ...