Steve Strauss has earned the top spot on The American Lawyer's Litigation Daily Litigator of the Week Runners-Up list for getting Latham & Watkins disqualified from a lawsuit...

In 2004, FLIR Systems, a manufacturer of infrared cameras and thermal imaging systems, acquired Indigo Systems, a manufacturer of microbolomoters, which are components for FLIR's products.

DQ is delighted to announce that it is hosting a global tax enforcement conference, together with global law firm Latham & Watkins, in Gibraltar.

The SEC now permits public marketing of private placements, without burdensome investor wealth verification requirements, if the investment is big enough. On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange.

At the center of the case is the interim adverse judgment rule, which provides a defense to a malicious prosecution claim.

With effect from 18 December 2011, Russia’s "Strategic Enterprises Law"1 has been significantly relaxed.

Payments of interest to the seller or the purchaser by debtors who are United States persons on interest-bearing debt obligations with maturities in excess of 183 days generally are subject to United States withholding tax if the seller or the purchaser is a non-resident of the United States.

On June 3, 2011 the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) issued a revised Code of Practice on Employment (the Code) under the Disability Discrimination Ordinance (DDO). This updated code is derived from experience gained by the EOC since the original publication of the Code in January 1997.

In a relatively slow public M&A market immediately following the introduction of the major changes to the UK Takeover Code (the Code) in September 2011.

Various US-resident investment managers, custodians and other end-investors (including financial and non-financial organizations such as banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, foundations and others) are required to submit Treasury Form SHC (Report of US Ownership of Foreign Securities, Including Selected Money Market Instruments) (Form SHC) on or before March 2, 2012.

The proliferation of technology that enables monitoring of computer users’ actions online and collection of their personal information has given rise to public concerns about protecting individuals’ privacy rights. At the center of the debate about such technology is software that is pejoratively referred to as "spyware," though there is vast disagreement on what "spyware" means.

The decision clears a path for President Biden's climate priorities, striking down a Trump Administration rule that had repealed the Obama Administration's power plant greenhouse gas regulations.

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance recently rendered important guidance on the concept of "solicitation" in the context...

Despite a formidable history and a number of recent successes, the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to receive criticism from Congress, the public and the press for failing to move quickly to detect and prevent the series of crises that have confronted the securities markets. In a recent speech to the District of Columbia Bar Association, Stephen M. Cutler, the Director of the Division of Enforcement, outlined some changes at the Commission designed to meet this criticism.

The claim arose from the long-running fallout from the multi-billion dollar dispute between the Al-Gosaibi family, Maan Al Sanea and the Saad Group of companies.

An October 5, 2004 ruling in the chapter 11 case of <I>Owens-Corning </I>suggests lenders should look again at an old issue, the substantive consolidation of affiliated entities. In <I>Owens-Corning</I>, the substantive consolidation of the holding company with its subsidiaries eliminated the structural seniority of bank lenders which had obtained guarantees from many of the subsidiaries to support credit provided to the holding company.

In its recently released Partial Award of 23 May 2011, a majority of the UNCITRAL tribunal in HICEE B.V. v The Slovak Republic found that the applicable bilateral investment treaty between the Netherlands and Slovakia.

The US Federal Trade Commission has announced that it approved the new jurisdictional thresholds required by the 2000 amendment to the Hart- Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act).