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A federal court ruled that the training of an AI tool on copyrighted materials was ineligible for a "Fair Use" defense for its copying. In this video, Bryan Sterba informs viewers on key takeaways...

On December 11, the President issued an executive order establishing a national policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI), with the stated objective of promoting U.S. leadership and maintaining global competitiveness in AI.

While not technically new, agentic AI is currently one of the most buzzed-about developments in artificial intelligence, with Gartner recently naming it on of 2025's top technology trends.

When a security leader becomes highly visible, people often assume something dramatic happened.

In the 96 years since Zeig, excess insurers have sought to erode this rule by inserting various "condition precedent" provisions into their policies.

In late December 2021, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law. The new legislation creates a rebuttable presumption that any goods created in whole...

Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations...

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued new guidance to prevent the diversion of controlled items to Russia. This guidance recommends the use of the Trade Integrity Project (TIP) database, which tracks...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced new, higher Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger notification thresholds and higher HSR filing fees, which will take effect on February 17, 2026. The new minimum size-of-transaction threshold potentially triggering an HSR filing will be $133.9 million.

On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released the final revised rules governing premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act.

On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted sweeping amendments to Regulation S-P, which governs the privacy of nonpublic consumer personal and financial information...

On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued proposed rules to enhance and standardize a registrant's climate-related disclosures in registration statements and annual reports (Proposed Rules).

On June 25, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued its first orders under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, targeting three Mexican financial institutions: CIBanco S.A. (CIBanco), Intercam Banco S.A. (Intercam), and Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V. (Vector), for their alleged roles in the laundering of proceeds associated with illicit opioid manufacturing and trafficking, including of fentanyl (the FinCEN Orders).

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program). The Program—which will last for three years—is designed to incentivize...

On November 1, 2021, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) approved changes to its Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) standard to include guidance...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission establishes a new Innovation Advisory Committee while simultaneously issuing guidance on pricing transparency for event-contract derivatives. Meanwhile, the SEC pursues fraud charges against a private fund adviser for alleged misappropriation and undisclosed fees, and a federal court in Connecticut denies Kalshi's attempt to block state gambling law enforcement.

Lowenstein Sandler achieves groundbreaking SEC no-action relief enabling zero cash balance brokerage accounts, while global regulators advance digital asset infrastructure and issue new guidance on AI supervision and prediction market contracts. How are these developments reshaping the intersection of traditional finance, emerging technology, and regulatory oversight?

The CFTC proposes sweeping changes to prediction market regulation while the SEC advances binary options on corporate KPIs and machine-understandable data initiatives. These developments raise fundamental questions about the boundaries between gambling, derivatives trading, and securities markets, as federal regulators navigate conflicting state actions and emerging technologies that blur traditional regulatory lines.