On February 20, 2020, FERC issued four orders addressing the scope of the buyer-side mitigation ("BSM") rules in the New York Independent System Operator,...

On 6 August 2019, the UK Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") published its much-awaited guidance on corporate co-operation (the "Guidance").

The main difference may be that the financial sponsor requires a clean exit. That means that they require a certain specific amount of proceeds that need to be upstreamed to the investors.

Mobile network infrastructure deployment in the U.S. has always followed a familiar path: three or four large equipment manufacturers struggle with each other to sell radios to three or four national carriers...

During 2019, U.S. private fund manager regulation saw significant developments as well as continued SEC examination and enforcement scrutiny. Highlights of those developments include:

Over the last three weeks, the Mexican government adopted measures to suspend preoperational tests for solar and wind plants and allow the power market operator ("CENACE")...

The English court has held that solvent proceedings cannot be recognised under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 ("CBIR")

The U.S. is investigating hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions involving three Chinese banks that allegedly helped finance North Korea's

In an EU Press Release issued on 18 February 2020, the ECOFIN committee of the European Union ("EU") resolved to move the Cayman Islands to the EU blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (the "EU Blacklist").

The IRS released new guidance on May 27, 2020, that extends the deadline by which 2016 and 2017 vintage renewable energy projects must be placed in service to maintain tax credit eligibility...

On November 22, 2019, a federal appellate court unanimously reversed a lower court's earlier decision that held two separate but related private equity funds — Sun Capital Partners III and Sun Capital Partners IV.

On May 28, 2019, China's central cybersecurity authority, the Cyberspace Administration of China, released a draft of its implementing Measures on Data Security Management

On 10 January 2020, the UK Money Laundering Regulations changed to incorporate the EU's Fifth Money Laundering Directive.

In this article, the authors discuss the successful going-concern sale of mall-based retailer Things Remembered,

Update: On February 13, 2020, FERC announced that it intends to act on all four of the proceedings discussed in our original February 5, 2020, blog post

In another twist to a high-profile prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), on February 26, 2020

During the second day of the landmark UK Supreme Court Unwired Planet/Conversant appeals, the Deputy President of the Court,...

In Part 3 of a series of Insights on U.S. enforcement against China-based companies, Kirkland & Ellis attorneys focus on the increase in trade secret prosecutions

U.S. and Chinese officials are to meet again Thursday to continue trade negotiations. But, even if an agreement is reached on tariffs and market access to China

On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury"), as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS"), ...