Meeting in London on March 26, 2010, the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee amended the MARPOL Convention to formally establish a North American Emission Control Area ("ECA"), in which emissions of sulfur oxides ("SOx"), nitrogen oxides ("NOx") and particulate matter from ships will be subject to more stringent controls than the limits that apply globally.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") has proposed a new regulation that would ban all sewage discharges to the marine waters along California’s coastline from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships.

Given the increasing importance of the China market and Chinese companies, international corporations and investors now encounter Chinese companies in two very different contexts.

O'Melveny counsel Sergei Zaslavsky co-hosted this episode of the ABA Antitrust Law Section's Our Curious Amalgam podcast featuring former FTC Commissioner Josh Wright.

O'Melveny's Scott Pink wrote this piece, which is the first of a number of articles that will look at blockchain tools and the developing legality of privacy in regards to the technology.

The Government has determined the 2011 coal domestic market obligation (DMO) requirements based on the recently issued Minister Decree Number 2360.K.

Yesterday, in a 9-0 ruling in "Skilling v. U.S.", No. 08-1394, the Supreme Court limited the "honest services" theory of mail- and wire-fraud prosecutions to cases of corporate employees and public officials participating in "bribery and kickback schemes."

Eric Rothenberg, Hannah Chanoine, Rochelle Karr, and Cailey Martin co-authored an article for CFO.com discussing the increased demand ...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged four members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with hacking into the computer systems...

Proposition 26, approved by Californians on Tuesday, now requires a two-thirds supermajority vote in the California state legislature to pass many of the fees and charges that under prior rules were enacted by a simple majority vote.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Promontory Financial Group have co-authored the first detailed analysis of China's financial system undertaken in the wake of the global financial crisis.

On January 6, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued an advisory to California consumers notifying them of the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) new...

On March 6, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order requiring a publicly traded Chinese company, Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd., to divest its 2018 ...

On Tuesday, January 14, Microsoft released a patch to close an important vulnerability related to security certificate functions in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016,

On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in "Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Ltd.", a case with important implications for foreign public companies and any company with shares trading on foreign securities exchanges.

On January 19, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission announced changes to the reporting thresholds and exemptions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976 (the "HSR Act").

On 1 October 2010, the Chairman of the Capital Market and Financial Institution Supervisory Agency (Bapepam - LK) issued Rule IX.D.6 concerning the issuance of shares with differing nominal values (or otherwise known as par value).

On November 30, 2009, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in "Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd.", a case with important implications for foreign public companies that have established a presence in the United States.

On April 12th, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law California Senate Bill 401 ("S.B. 401"), which includes provisions exempting renewable energy grant proceeds received pursuant to Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("Renewable Energy Grants") from California gross income and alternative minimum taxable income.

On October 14, 2019, President Trump issued a broad executive order targeting the Government of Turkey in response to Turkey's military offensive in northeast Syria