The COVID-19 pandemic has had an acute impact on the private equity deal environment and the broader global economy.

Businesses in the UK are invariably bought and sold using an auction process, and so I am going to talk about the evolution in the auction process in the UK and draw out certain themes...

The UK's new corporate offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion is quite a mouthful, but the title does do a pretty accurate job of describing the offence.

On May 7, 2012, the Department of Labor released Employee Benefits Security Administration Field Assistance Bulletin 2012-2, which offers guidance in the form of "Frequently Asked Questions" on the fee disclosure rules for participant-directed individual account plans under section 404(a) of ERISA.

Over the last few months, most of the attention in the climate space in the U.S. has been on the dramatic, and expected, shift in federal government policy.

A recurring topic of discussion among secondaries market players is the extent to which the growth in GP-led deal volume in recent years has primarily resulted from transitory factors, such as softness in exit markets.

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration announced a $35 million settlement with a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to resolve alleged failures to monitor and report...

Calendar 2021 U.S. Conflict Minerals Rule filings are due on May 31. Although the substantive requirements have not changed since last year, there are nevertheless changes to disclosure...

On July 22, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRM") describing comprehensive potential revisions to the Common Rule.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and coronavirus relief bill signed into law by the President yesterday...

Edward McNicholas, co-leader of Ropes & Gray's data, privacy & cybersecurity practice, provides general counsel with three key rules he follows when responding to a data breach.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partner Jason Kolman and counsel Steve Zaorski discuss certain challenges facing funds reaching the end of their terms...

Generally, each U.S. person who has a financial interest in, or signature authority over, one or more foreign financial accounts during a calendar year is required to report those accounts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on U.S. Treasury Form TD F 90-22.1, "Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts" (FBAR

The new tax applies to individuals, estates and trusts with unearned "net investment income" in excess of certain amounts.

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee visited Washington in the last week of July, not for a summer holiday, but to discuss the upcoming Privacy Shield review...

The latest enforcement statistics released by the UK Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") show that the regulator is investigating more firms and individuals than ever in relation to an ever expanding

As discussed in our prior Alert, in September 2020, the SEC amended Rule 15c2-11, which governs when dealers can publish quotations for securities to, among other things,...

As a result of these changes, millions of workers will lose their current FLSA-exempt status on December 1, 2016.

The new notice filing requirement for continued reliance on certain exemptions from aggregation under the CFTC's position limit rules becomes effective on August 14, 2017.

On September 26, 2013, David Blass, Chief Counsel of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, participated in a Practising Law Institute panel discussion on broker-dealer issues in the private fund industry.