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The relatively recent so-called ‘Other Fund’ (also known as the German Part II Fund) was incorporated into the German Investment Act ("InvG") at the end of 2007.

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ("FATCA"), which was signed into law on March 18, 2010, as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (the "HIRE Act"), includes a number of revenue raising provisions affecting cross-border transactions.

The British Parliament has recently published two important post-legislative assessments of the effectiveness of the UK's financial crime legislative framework, as well as an insight into future areas of focus.

The DOJ Criminal Division's Fraud Section has expanded to over 200 attorneys across four prosecuting units, marking a historic shift in federal fraud enforcement.

The Department of Labor has proposed two significant rule changes that could reshape how employers classify workers and determine joint employment relationships under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has adopted a set of rule changes designed to assist in overseeing the commodities and derivatives markets and assessing the market risk associated with pooled investment vehicles under its jurisdiction.

The NAIC has proposed significant revisions to statutory accounting principles that would restrict bond treatment for multi-collateral structured credit investments deemed to carry "significant embedded asset-liability management risk." This analysis examines the regulatory concerns driving the proposal, evaluates whether the proposed framework appropriately addresses those concerns, and identifies potential unintended consequences for insurance company investors and the broader structured credit markets.

In this edition of the UK Enforcement newsletter, we provide an update on recent anti-corruption, fraud and bribery developments in the UK.

U.S. national security regulation continues to evolve beyond traditional sanctions screening toward comprehensive relationship mapping, supply chain analysis, and technology transfer controls. Recent enforcement actions, temporary licensing frameworks, and expanded congressional mandates demonstrate how regulatory oversight now encompasses outbound investment, defense procurement, biotechnology collaboration, and foreign ownership across both classified and unclassified government contracts.

The past year was another noteworthy one with respect to securities fraud class action lawsuits pursued against publicly traded pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently handed down a significant decision holding that the Tomra Group (Tomra) had abused its dominant position.

On September 29, 2025, the SEC issued notice of an application filed by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and its affiliates ("DFA") to offer an ETF share class ("ETF Class") and mutual fund share classes ("Mutual Fund Class") within the same fund ("ETF Share Class Relief").

In this issue of our regular data protection and privacy updates we highlight some recent developments in individual member states around Europe.

In light of recent SEC enforcement and private class action litigation developments regarding sub-advised mutual fund fees.

According to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), amendments to the Law on Competition (the "Competition Law," the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code, comprising the so-called "third antimonopoly package," have been substantially agreed with the Russian government and will soon be submitted to the State Duma.

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) has enacted a new failure to prevent fraud offence which will come into effect on 1 September 2025.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 12, 2010 proposed a new rule, Rule 202(a)(11)(G)-1, under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the "Advisers Act"), defining the term "family office" for purposes of the exclusion from the definition of "investment adviser" provided by Section 202(a)(11)(G) of the Advisers Act, which was added to the Advisers Act by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank").

Last week the UK's new Arbitration Act 2025 (the "Act") received Royal Assent. In this update, we summarise the background to the Act and the main changes emerging from it.