Congress wrapped up its busy pre-recess schedule focused on a supplemental appropriations bill to help fund costs associated with the inflow of people.

On December 17, I will be participating in a Thomson Reuters webinar entitled "SEC Enforcement Activity and Regulatory Update for Private Equity Funds."

The Association for Corporate Growth is having its next Private Equity Regulatory Task Force (PERT) meeting/conference call this Thursday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m. ET.

It's a busy week as Congress and just about everyone else is counting down the days until August recess.

Last week the House of Representatives passed two relevant bills: one limits the Department of Labor’s ability to impose a fiduciary duty on brokers and investment advisers, the other limits the "swaps push out" provisions of Dodd-Frank.

The U.S. is expected to hit the debt ceiling this Thursday, and while discussions are ongoing, no resolution is in sight as proposals by Susan Collins were rejected.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has once again been found to be unconstitutionally structured. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling is a win for CFPB critics and calls into question most actions taken by the agency, as they pertain to its funding mechanism.

On December 1, 2014, FDA published the Menu Labeling Rule requiring covered establishments to disclose calorie and certain nutrition information for standard menu items.

ACG holds its Third Annual Middle Market Public Policy Summit this Wednesday, February 5th in Washington, DC. Confirmed speakers include Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Congressman John Delaney (D-MD) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO), as well as officials from the SEC.

Congratulations to the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors on a successful Winter Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The US International Trade Commission is a powerful and cost-effective weapon in the ongoing brand protection war, but remains underused.

"Natural," "All Natural" and "Sourced from Nature" are claims that we see every day. Products with these claims have come under attack in a tsunami of class action filings filed in California and elsewhere.

Harley Geiger published "Offensive Security Under the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act" in the November-December 2024 edition of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report. The following is an excerpt:

On June 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 ("OSRA 2022"), which amended the Shipping Act of 1984 ("the Shipping Act"). Among the various...

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Almost two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission released a draft of its revised Green Guides.

Voting for the crowd-sourced education sessions at the 2013 ERA Great Ideas Summit closes on October 26, 2012.

On January 31, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it received 744 eligible entries before the January 17 submission deadline for its Robocall Challenge.

As the G7 leaders met this week with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, the United States and allies introduced a new, coordinated package of sanctions to ramp up the pressure against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine.

On February 5, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (NAD) announced that Anheuser-Busch could support the claim that Michelob ULTRA Light Cider contains one-third fewer calories than an average of "the leading regular ciders."