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This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed amendments to the civil False Claims Act ("FCA") in approving S. 386, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 ("FERA").

Recently, in its effort to defund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”), the House of Representatives moved toward creating a nightmare for government contractors, health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and other grantees and recipients under government programs, as well as for the smooth functioning of both the federal and state governments.

The UK Government issued draft clauses for Finance Bill 2014 on 10 December 2013.

On March 8, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the "DOJ") and nine states announced a settlement in their challenge of Election Systems & Software Inc.’s ("ES&S") $5 million acquisition of Premier Election Solutions, Inc. and PES Holdings, Inc. ("Premier").

We are rapidly approaching January 1, 2010, the date on which the Federal estate and generation-skipping transfer ("GST") taxes are scheduled to be repealed, but only for calendar year 2010.

On December 10, 2013, the so-called "Volcker Rule" final regulations were approved (the "Rule").

Distressed M&A transactions are currently en vogue – especially in Germany. Permanent changes in the energy sector lead to insolvencies, both in the solar industry and in energy intensive businesses.

An ownership cap on US cable operators became effective Monday March 31, 2008. The cap limits the number of pay TV subscribers in the US a cable operator may serve at 30 percent nationwide.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently became the first appellate court to address whether a private equity fund can become liable under ERISA for the pension plan underfunding of its portfolio companies.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") was approved by the House on June 30, 2010, and by the Senate on July 15, 2010. The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama.

In order to encourage registrants to provide more meaningful financial information to investors following the 2008-9 global economic crisis, the Division of Corporation Finance Staff has updated its Regulation G-related C&DIs (Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations).

Every SEC Regulation Fair Disclosure enforcement action details a perceived mistake. In each such instance, there is a "case study" for all public companies.

In a move that highlights regulatory cooperation, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ("OCIE") and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") jointly issued to the broker-dealer community guidance ("Joint Guidance").

On 17 January 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published Practice Statement No. 27 relating to how the prohibition on "offer-related arrangements" applies to irrevocable commitments and letters of intent given by target company shareholders who are also directors of the target company.

The Crime and Courts Act 2013 received Royal Assent in April 2013, and makes provision for the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements in the U.K.

On October 6, 2008, the US Department of Labor (the “DOL”) released its final regulation regarding the content of the policies and procedures that an investment manager must adopt if it seeks to effect cross trades under the statutory cross-trading exemption added by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the “PPA”).

Employers must act by the end of the year to bring their deferred compensation plans and arrangements into compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, Inclusion in Gross Income of Deferred Compensation Under Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans (“Section 409A”).