The Securities and Exchange Commission has consolidated its accounting and financial reporting enforcement resources into a dedicated unit, signaling heightened scrutiny of public company disclosures, internal controls, and audit quality. This organizational shift concentrates previously dispersed expertise into a specialized team positioned to investigate financial reporting misconduct more efficiently and aggressively.

On September 5, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the formation within its Division of Enforcement of a Cross-Border Task Force To Combat Fraud.

While the number of new corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) declined since last year, and was below the trailing five-year average, 2018 was an important year on the policy front for the Office of Inspector General.

The Trump administration's most-favored-nation drug pricing initiative aims to align U.S. pharmaceutical prices with those in comparable developed nations...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has declared the FTC's statutory removal protections unconstitutional, potentially jeopardizing the European Commission's adequacy decision that enables EU-U.S. data transfers. This development could force companies to reconsider their data transfer strategies as European courts may challenge the independence of U.S. oversight authorities. The decision raises critical questions about the future of transatlantic data flows and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

This article provides an overview of recent developments in Venezuela-related sanctions in the United States ("U.S.") and the European Union ("EU") ...

In November 2017, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The increased focus on protecting personal privacy may pose a new challenge to the bounds of e-discovery in U.S. litigation as courts reconcile ...

A comprehensive review of recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) consumer protection actions shows that the FTC continues to be one of Washington's most aggressive regulators

On December 5, 2018, Skadden hosted the webinar "Drafting International Dispute Resolution Clauses."

Earlier this year, the Trump administration activated a previously dormant statutory provision in the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1996

The second phase of sanctions will be implemented in November 2018, three months after the first phase, if Russia does not satisfy certain conditions.

On 6 July 2026, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the Mills Review (Review) to examine how advances in AI could transform retail financial services by 2030. The Review drew on 140 written submissions and a wide range of expertise through meetings, panels and roundtables across financial services.

The English Courts have reignited the prospects of a £14 billion class action against Mastercard.

In July 2018, Delaware Gov. John Carney signed into law amendments to the Delaware LLC Act and General Corporation Law.

Illinois has become the third state to regulate large AI developers, following California and New York, by enacting the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. The new law imposes transparency, safety, and reporting obligations on frontier AI developers, while uniquely requiring annual independent audits of compliance. With enforcement beginning in 2027 and audit requirements taking effect in 2028, developers must now navigate an increasingly complex patchwork of state-specific AI regulations.

Brazil has enacted a new data protection law modeled on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.

THE SUPREME COURT'S 2018 term got underway on October 1, with the media spotlight focused on the naming of a successor to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

Antitrust regulators have been giving increasing thought to the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust as technology has taken a central role in the day-to-day life of consumers

Few price manipulation cases brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ever go to trial.