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On March 5, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged AT&T, Inc. ("AT&T" or the "Company") and three executives in its Investor Relations Department (the "IR officers")...

The recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Van Loon, et al. v. Dep't of the Treasury, 122 F.4th 549 (2024) held that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control...

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP is pleased to submit this memorandum on the U.S. federal income tax treatment of staking rewards.

For the first time in 40 years, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has enforced Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits interlocking directorates.

The Biden Administration has moved quickly to nominate new leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission").

Two recent enforcement actions demonstrate that U.S. antitrust authorities can and do fine individuals and entities — especially repeat offenders — for failure to comply with U.S. antitrust premerger notification requirements.

In SEC v. Blackburn, 15 F.4th 676 (5th Cir. Oct. 12, 2021), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit became the first circuit to consider whether a disgorgement order for violations...

With the 2023 proxy season fast approaching, issuers will need to address a number of important considerations in preparing their "pay versus performance" proxy statement disclosures...

At a November 2024 sanctions and anti-money laundering panel discussion, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's National Security Division David Newman stated that the National Security Division was...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most potentially transformative technological innovations of our time, and a race is on among governments and tech companies around the world...

In Market Street Bancshares, Inc. v. Federal Insurance Co., 2020 WL 3396303 (7th Cir. June 19, 2020), the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

For the first time in decades, the Federal Circuit has a new standard to assess the nonobviousness of design patents.

In United States v. Heppner, No. 1:25-cr-00503-JSR, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32697 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 17, 2026), United States District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff granted the government's motion for a ruling that a criminal...

To establish a securities fraud claim, plaintiffs must show they relied on the alleged misrepresentations or omissions that are the subject of the lawsuit.

Courts are increasingly being asked to decide when website operators are subject to personal jurisdiction, a potentially vexing problem, because websites generally lack a specific location...

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has proposed a rule prohibiting employers from imposing noncompete restrictions on their employees and requiring employers to rescind existing noncompete restrictions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently adopted final rules (the "Final Rules") to amend the "patchwork" framework for exempt securities offerings.

Glass, Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis") and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. ("ISS"), the leading providers of corporate governance and proxy advisory services, have published their updated voting guidelines for the 2021 proxy season.