Last year at this time, companies and boards were wrestling with the impact of the new revenue recognition standard and the new lease accounting standard.

The financial assistance available to impacted companies comes in various forms, including loans, loan guarantees...

On October 1, 2020, the SDNY District Court issued an important ruling in U.S. v. Halkbank, holding that foreign state-owned entities ("SOEs") can be subject to criminal jurisdiction

Defective notice, the Sixth Circuit stated, does not satisfy due process any more than the failure to give notice at all.

A week after Glass Lewis issued its 2020 proxy voting guidelines,Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released its final updates to its 2020 proxy voting policies.

Almost no part of the business world has escaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdowns that sought to control the spread of the virus had the side effect of sucking demand out...

Con il decreto legge (n. 76) pubblicato il 16 luglio 2020 (il "Decreto Semplificazioni"), il Governo ha adottato nuove disposizioni, applicabili principalmente alle società italiane quotate...

The recent Ninth Circuit panel decision reversing the district court's judgment in FTC v. Qualcomm, Inc., has important implications for the role of antitrust in standard essential patent (SEP)

The Presidential Directive lays out the framework for rolling back certain Obama-era regulations that eased travel and trade restrictions between the United States and Cuba.

On April 16, 2020, Belgium adopted the law transposing the Shareholder Rights Directive II ("SRD II Law"), almost one year after the ultimate transposition deadline of the directive.

Private equity activity has continued to rebound from first-half lows, with new deals and restarted processes gearing up throughout the summer season.

On November 21, 2019, the French data protection authority (the "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" or "CNIL") imposed a €500,000 fine on Futura Internationale, a ...

On 24 April 2020, with Law No. 27 (the "Conversion Law") the Italian Parliament converted into law the Law Decree No. 18 of 17 March 2020 ("Cura Italia Decree") adopted by the Italian Government

U.S. public companies are thinking about how to quantify the effects of COVID-19 in their second-quarter public disclosures.

A recent decision of the Delaware Court of Chancery in the ongoing WeWork/SoftBank litigation addressed a previously unresolved question...

On December 18, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), as part of supplemental guidance and rule amendments addressing the cross-border application of certain rules regulating security-based swaps

Whether plaintiff had alleged a sufficiently "concrete" injury for standing under Article III.

In response to the financial difficulties many companies were facing due to the lockdown earlier this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Global Crisis Management Series: This post is part 11 in a series concerning topics further elaborated on in Cleary Gottlieb's Global Crisis Management Handbook

Quick settlements with activist hedge funds to recompose boards and adjust strategic plans have resulted in hundreds of new directors and changes to stand-alone plans in the S&P 500 over the last two years.