The Ongoing Gas Crisis in the EU. Europe is experiencing one of the most significant energy crises in recent years. The rapid recovery in energy demand following the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

On 1 July 2022, a comprehensive set of amendments to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes' suite of rules for resolving disputes between foreign investors and host States come into effect.

In a change to its previous position, guidance issued by the Luxembourg regulator on 11 October 2019 will allow some UK-regulated alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) to continue to ...

On 17 October, the UK High Court handed down judgments in preliminary issues trials of three Covid-19 related business interruption claims

On September 16, 2019, the House Energy and Commerce Committee ("House E&C") announced that it was opening a bipartisan investigation into the role that private equity funds play in what critics call "surprise" medical billing.

On 5 September 2022, the German Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, "BaFin") published a Q&A paper providing guidance on...

The SAFE Banking Act offers a wide range of financial institutions protection from liability pursuant to federal law for serving cannabis-related legitimate businesses

The Ninth Circuit recently held for the second time in Rizo v. Yovino that, under the federal Equal Pay Act (the "EPA"), prior salary history cannot be used by employers to justify sex-based pay differentials.

The European Parliament published last week a response to the European Commission's proposal for review of AIFMD, suggesting a variety of changes to the Commission's...

The ESG disclosure standard was developed in collaboration with Chinese insurer Ping An, China Mobile, Ant Group and several other companies.

Recent decisions by the Financial Conduct Authority (the "FCA") and High Court have provided some guidance on the scope of what constitutes unlawful disclosure...

The European Securities and Markets Agency (ESMA) this week published a Commission Decision and Annex containing a set of answers on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure...

Shortly after implementation of the AIFMD Directive (Directive 2011/61/EU), the German Federal Financial Services Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin)...

A survey conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project ("CDP"), an environmental disclosure platform, and Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, suggests that corporate emissions targets across G7 countries are not in...

On 8 June 2022, the United Kingdom's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) announced that its new strict liability enforcement standard and updated accompanying guidance...

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new Rule 163B to permit all issuers to engage in oral or written "testing-the-waters"

On July 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (the "DOL") published a proposed amendment (the "Amendment") to prohibited transaction class exemption 84-14 (the "Exemption")...

On May 26, 2022, the Health Care Consolidation and Contracting Fairness Act of 2022 ("AB 2080" or "the bill") passed in the California Assembly.

The last edition of our Corporate Governance Newsletter focused on draft amendments to the Part 500 Cybersecurity Rules proposed by the New York Department of Financial Services.

The DOJ's announcement follows the court's approval of a tentative settlement reached on April 27, 2022 by Aerojet and the whistleblower who filed the claims.