We would like to introduce you to a great new feature of the revised German Insolvency Act which makes debt-equity-swaps in Germany (e.g., as part of loan-to-own transactions) a lot more attractive.

On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a no-action letter in response to a request for interpretive guidance submitted by Latham & Watkins LLP...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC's) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) issued CFTC Staff Letter No. 20-34 (the Advisory)

US Department of Justice's sprawling report reveals regulatory enforcement priorities for cryptocurrencies and highlights multi-agency cooperation.

We have had numerous guests on the podcast focused on legal tech, but in today's conversation, we talk about practical governance strategies for AI and other frontier technologies with Karen Silverman, the CEO and founder of The Cantellus Group.

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance recently rendered important guidance on the concept of "solicitation" in the context...

The decision clears a path for President Biden's climate priorities, striking down a Trump Administration rule that had repealed the Obama Administration's power plant greenhouse gas regulations.

The proliferation of technology that enables monitoring of computer users’ actions online and collection of their personal information has given rise to public concerns about protecting individuals’ privacy rights. At the center of the debate about such technology is software that is pejoratively referred to as "spyware," though there is vast disagreement on what "spyware" means.

Despite a formidable history and a number of recent successes, the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to receive criticism from Congress, the public and the press for failing to move quickly to detect and prevent the series of crises that have confronted the securities markets. In a recent speech to the District of Columbia Bar Association, Stephen M. Cutler, the Director of the Division of Enforcement, outlined some changes at the Commission designed to meet this criticism.

On December 29, 2019, CPF Canada Holdings Corp. ("CPF"), a subsidiary of Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl, Thailand's largest agriculture conglomerate, acquired all of the shares of HyLife ...

An October 5, 2004 ruling in the chapter 11 case of <I>Owens-Corning </I>suggests lenders should look again at an old issue, the substantive consolidation of affiliated entities. In <I>Owens-Corning</I>, the substantive consolidation of the holding company with its subsidiaries eliminated the structural seniority of bank lenders which had obtained guarantees from many of the subsidiaries to support credit provided to the holding company.

On January 8, 2021, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed amendments to the regulations of California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement...

In recent years, the market has witnessed a sharp divide both within the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) itself and between the investor community and the SEC...

In a year-end change of course, the SEC identified the minimum steps that broker-dealers must take when acting as custodians of digital asset securities.

In a surprise release in the waning days of the Trump administration, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) division of the Department of the Treasury issued a proposed...

In Communities for a Better Environment v. Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission, the California First District Court of Appeal ...

Article 11 of the Finance Law for 2003, codified under Article 208-C of the French Tax Code (FTC), provides for a new tax regime to the benefit of real estate companies which are listed on a French stock exchange. This tax regime (the SIIC Regime) exempts from French corporate income tax, subject to certain distribution requirements, rental income earned by such companies as well as capital gains that they realize on the sale of real estate assets, shares in real estate partnerships which are tr