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An analysis of the enforcement program of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, following the Board's establishment under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

The UK Financial Services Authority has published a consultation paper outlining several proposed changes to the Listing Rules.

In April 2010, the Obama Administration announced a comprehensive export control reform effort.

On October 14, 2008, the US Department of the Treasury (the "Treasury") announced the development of three programs under the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP") authorized by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the "EESA").

On December 18, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rule amendments to Regulation A as required by Title IV of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Recent high-profile Securities and Exchange Commission cases against hedge fund managers revive the most universal question associated with insider trading regulation.

Corporate governance issues continue to dominate the business landscape in the UK.

The European Commission ("EC") imposed a €1.06 billion fine on US-based chipmaker Intel for abuses of dominant position.

As part of implementing new statutory provisions enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act"), which establishes a comprehensive framework for the regulation of the swap market, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" and collectively with the CFTC, the "Commissions") have been jointly tasked, in consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

For the first time in a decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed changes to its regulations governing public resales of unregistered securities under Rule 144, with correlative changes to Rule 145, under the Securities Act of 1933.

On April 5, 2012, the President signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act" or the "Act") which made significant changes to the public offering process to encourage "emerging growth companies."

In its “Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure” released today, the Department of the Treasury has presented a series of "short-term" and "intermediate-term" recommendations to improve regulatory coordination and oversight in the wake of recent events in the U.S. credit and mortgage markets and to eliminate some of the duplication in the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In 1984, the European Commission presented a draft Directive on cross-border mergers of companies, which had been the subject of lengthy and contentious negotiations.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has recently approved a final version of its interpretive guidance and policy statement and an exemptive order regarding the application of certain swaps provisions under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

An update on some changes to the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers announced in July, and on a recent Supreme Court decision relating to the circumstances in which English Courts will pierce the corporate veil.

On June 4, 2007, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) implemented new rules that liberalize the deregistration process for foreign private issuers. In contrast, the current deregistration provisions governing U.S. registrants will remain in place.

RiskMetrics Group, the highly-influential proxy advisory firm formerly known as Institutional Shareholder Services ("RMG"), recently released its annual U.S. Corporate Governance Policy Update for the 2010 proxy season.

On August 11, 2009, the Obama administration (the "Administration") released proposed legislation that would prescribe extensive regulation of the over-the-counter ("OTC") derivatives markets for the first time.