Default offers in Australia's retail electricity market were designed to eliminate loyalty penalties and simplify plan comparisons, but how exactly do regulators calculate these price caps? The Australian Energy Regulator and Essential Services Commission now employ similar bottom-up methodologies that stack various cost components to determine what a prudent retailer would need to charge a representative customer.

As the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies reshapes industries globally, antitrust regulators and enforcers remain vigilant in ensuring healthy competition within this evolving landscape.

In securities class actions alleging violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933...

This white paper discusses how the growing integration of utility-scale renewables is changing the drivers of transmission costs. It critiques traditional peak demand-based charges and proposes energy-based charges as a more cost-reflective method for recovering infrastructure costs.

Drawing on more than a century of industry development and regulatory evolution, this analysis examines how market structures, infrastructure investment, and regulatory frameworks have shaped the long-term divergence between North American and international natural gas markets. The ongoing international energy crisis provides a backdrop for understanding why US natural gas prices remained stable while European markets experienced significant volatility, and what role regulatory design plays in energy market

While many discrimination cases focus on discrimination against women or minorities, there are also reverse discrimination cases that involve claims non-minority individuals were discriminated against "on the basis of race, or other characteristics or attributes."

International energy arbitration is evolving as disputes increasingly reflect the complexities of the low-carbon energy transition, incorporating climate policy, technological change, ESG pressures, and geopolitical factors.

Over the past several years, financial regulators have increased their focus on financial institutions’ Anti-Money Laundering regulatory compliance.

There were 112 new federal securities class action suits filed in the first half of 2024. Of these, 106 were standard cases containing alleged violations of Rule 10b-5, Section 11, and/or Section 12, and 15 standard cases...

In the January 2025 issue of Climate and Energy, NERA Senior Managing Director Jeff D. Makholm, Director Laura T. W. Olive, and Senior Analyst Emily Beiser offer a second installment in their ongoing series...

In Great Britain as in many international markets, a wave of investment in renewable electricity has made connection capacity increasingly...

Housing affordability has emerged as a critical challenge for American homebuyers, with persistently high costs, limited inventory, and reduced market turnover creating unprecedented barriers to homeownership. Legal and policy experts examine the multifaceted dimensions of this crisis and explore potential solutions that balance supply-side constraints with demand-side pressures while maintaining essential consumer protections.

As artificial intelligence transforms business operations, multinational enterprises face critical questions about where value is created when significant human functions are automated. This analysis examines how the arm's length principle should be applied to controlled transactions involving AI tool development and deployment, with particular focus on risk control functions and the attribution of AI investments across evolving value chains.

While most transfer pricing rules will apply to large multinational enterprise (MNE) groups, family offices, foundations, and trusts cannot ignore them.

In "Will Economic Uncertainty and Growing Cost Pressures Lead to More Claims and Complicate the Calculation of Quantum?" published in Global Arbitration Review's The Arbitration Review of the Americas 2026, Senior Managing Directors Julie Carey and Christian Dippon and Managing Directors Jorge Baez and Robert Patton analyze recent international arbitration cases.

The sale of sports media rights is a high stakes business. The global market now exceeds $50 billion annually. For sellers—professional sports leagues, clubs, and event organizers—media deals are

Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman emphasized that productivity improvements are essential for raising living standards over time. This principle is particularly relevant for GCC nations pursuing economic diversification through national transformation plans like Saudi Vision 2030 and Qatar National Vision 2030.

As part of the wider Electricity Market Reform (EMR) being introduced under the Energy Bill, the UK Government has decided to change its approach to providing incentives for the generation of low carbon electricity.

Senior Managing Director Bradley Heys, Managing Director Robert Patton, and Consultant Jielei Mao have released their annual report reviewing securities class actions in Canada.

The US "Incentive Auction" of 600MHz (UHF) bandwidth is the most ambitious spectrum auction ever proposed. Up to 144 MHz of "beachfront" radio frequencies could be repurposed from terrestrial broadcasting to mobile broadband.