Sidley is pleased to share the December 2021 issue of Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance, a quarterly newsletter designed to keep you current on what we consider...

The Supreme Court on June 5th issued an opinion in Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corporation that should substantially restrict the use of RICO in class action litigation by strengthening the "direct injury" element of RICO causation.

On November 21, 2008, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued its final rule (the “Rule”) relating to the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (“TLGP”) that the FDIC announced on October 14, 2008.

In a recent speech, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced three important updates to how DOJ attorneys are to approach corporate resolutions.

Recently, a court in the Central District of California unsealed a qui tam complaint against several specialty pharmacies and their private equity fund owners.

FERC specifically stated that it will not apply the 2022 Certificate Policy Statements to pending applications or applications filed before it issues any final guidance.

On September 22, 2017, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed the proposed Geolocation Privacy Protection Act, which sought to limit the collection, use, retention, or disclosure of precise geolocation...

On December 7, 2021, the CDP (formerly the Climate Disclosure Project), a climate research and environmental disclosure platform, announced the release of its 2021 company environmental scores.

On January 20, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) released its annual enforcement results for fiscal year 2021.

On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the West Indies Petroleum Limited and Port Hamilton Refining and Transportation LLLP, the new owners of the St. Croix refinery (Refinery).

On March 25, 2022, EPA Administrator Michael Regan issued a memorandum titled "Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements to Resolve Environmental Claims Against the Agency" (the Memorandum).

Todd Kim, Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), delivered remarks at the...

EU Advocate General recommends that the Court of Justice clarify the law relating to the repackaging of pharmaceutical products that are "parallel traded" across borders in Europe, in particular with respect to the conditions under which a trademark owner may oppose the marketing of repackaged products and the allocation of the burden of proof between the trademark owner and the parallel trader.

On October 14, 2021, the SEC reopened the period to solicit input from the public on the compensation clawback rules it proposed in 2015 to implement Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

State laws governing the collection and use of personal information continue to proliferate.

On November 26, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) issued a long-anticipated report on federal oil and gas leases.

On October 29, 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that state offices will solicit feedback from the public this week on proposed oil and gas lease sales to be held in early 2022...

The EU Commission, through a joint statement on 4 July 2017 by Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner for Justice, and Haruchi Kumazawa, a Commissioner of Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission, announced that the process is underway to provide Japan an EU adequacy decision on international data transfers by early 2018

In a case involving a claim by a former minister who claimed that his forced retirement violated the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 is constitutional as applied to federal law and has amended the ADEA.

A look at sales practice issues.