In connection with the continued efforts of New York State to grapple with the COVID‑19 pandemic, recent orders have updated the emergency measures in place impacting pending...

Shearman & Sterling real estate partner Jonathan Newman, and Siegfried Rivera shareholder, John Catalano, co-led the Strafford CLE webinar, "Property Management and Leasing Agreements: Key Provisions for Multifamily, Office, Retail, and Industrial Properties", on February 23, 2023.

On December 10, 2020, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed with prejudice a putative securities class action...

On May 20, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued two decisions affirming, on substantially similar grounds...

The regulation that will implement the Volcker Rule was finally issued on December 10, 2013.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System recently released results for the Dodd-Frank Annual Stress Tests for the 31 largest bank-holding companies.

On August 25, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative securities fraud class action asserting violations of Sections 11, 12(a)(2)...

AFRICA PLAYS HOST TO MORE THAN 1,850 MINING PROJECTS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT BY MANY OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST MINING COMPANIES

The 2023 proxy season is just around the corner. This quick reference guide, which is intended to supplement Shearman & Sterling's 20th Annual Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey...

On January 21, 2021, Judge Stanley R. Chesler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed with prejudice a putative class action...

On September 17, 2020, Judge Rachel P. Kovner of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed without prejudice a putative class action asserting claims...

Welcome to the third edition of Shearman & Sterling's Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly. As public companies and financial institutions continue to migrate to Texas...

On November 3, 2020, California voters approved several ballot initiatives including Proposition 22, which exempts online-enabled applications and platforms (such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash

On April 4, 2016, the Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations under Section 385 which includes specific Documentation Requirements for certain related-party debt instruments...

Following requests from industry, New York State incorporated legislative language addressing the expected discontinuance of LIBOR in its recently released draft budget.

On December 10, 2020, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a claim under Section 10(b)

On February 9, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed long-awaited equity hedging disclosure rules to implement Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the "Dodd-Frank Act").

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump wavered between populist and business-friendly policies and expressed seemingly conflicting plans for Wall Street...

Covering two million square km, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country by landmass in the Middle East and the 13th largest in the world.

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has, at least temporarily, reshaped the way that many companies do business.