The State Administration of Taxation (SAT) in China has recently provided an overview of anti-avoidance initiatives in the Chinese media.

A study by NERA Economic Consulting shows that consumer class action settlements in the US have increased steadily over the past four years.

The MSRB named Simon Wu as its Chief Economist. Mr. Wu will assume his new role starting on February 6, 2017.

Last week, NERA Economic Consulting released its annual report, "Recent Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation: 2013 Full-Year Review."

An important decision in litigation—one no doubt informed by an understanding of the evidence and relevant legal issues—is how to evaluate the settlement value of a case.

On December 16, 2011, EPA released its final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule, accompanied by a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) that reported the incremental cost to the U.S. electricity sector would be $9.6 billion per year in 2015.

The recent passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") marks the completion of an arduous legislative process. But it also marks the beginning of an entirely new (and equally arduous) undertaking: the post-enactment process of creating the rules and regulations necessary to give effect to the Dodd-Frank Act.

Educational Broadband Service (EBS) and Broadband Radio Service (BRS) licenses are Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorizations for using 2.5 GHz spectrum intended...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled with 205 defendants in its first quarter of fiscal year 2010, compared to 181 in the previous quarter and 123 in the first fiscal quarter of 2009.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) engaged the controversy over exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) with its December 5 publication of Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports from the United States.

Securities class actions filed in US Federal court continue to be filed at their historical pace in the first half of 2012, but the number of settlements has dropped sharply, according to this edition of NERA's semi-annual study.

Since its filing in April, the petition has garnered enormous interest from different stakeholders, the vast majority of whom have voiced their opposition.

As agentic AI systems gain the ability to execute complex tasks with minimal human intervention, competition authorities face new challenges in understanding how these technologies reshape competitive dynamics. This analysis examines the dual nature of AI agents—their potential to both intensify competition through efficiency gains and raise concerns about algorithmic coordination and market concentration.

Atlantic IP was formed in Ireland in September 2019, with Ciaran O'Gara (its COO), Sean O'Sullivan, and Gerald Padian (its managing director) identified among its directors.

In this article, we explain why: some patterns of option grants that may appear extremely unlikely are actually very likely; the calculations presented in the March 18, 2006 Wall Street Journal article can be misleading; and factors that were disregarded in published probability calculations may be especially important when estimating the likelihood of grants for specific companies.

The steady stream of federal securities class actions has continued unabated throughout 2012.

Five of the 10 largest Financial Services Authority (FSA) fines of all time have been levied since 1 January 2012, according to NERA's new report, FSA Calendar Year-End Update 2012.

Last year, plaintiffs filed an unprecedented 412 new federal class-action securities cases, meaning that the "likelihood of securities litigation against U.S. exchange-listed companies was greater in 2017...

As the securities markets continued to exhibit extraordinary volatility and the economy suffered through a recession in 2008, securities class action litigation intensified. For the year 2008 (through December 14, 2008), 255 securities class actions were filed, up from a 12-year low of only 131 filings in 2006 and 195 in 2007.

Securities class actions are a relatively new development in Canada, spurred on by recent legislative changes. Although all but one province had enacted class action legislation by 2004, including Québec in 1978 and Ontario in 1993, securities claims brought under common law allegations of negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation were not conducive to class actions.