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The Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act") sets out the regulatory framework for dealing with personal data in the UK, imposing obligations on those organisations that it defines as "data controllers" (i.e., those persons who decide the purposes for which and the manner in which personal data are to be processed).

In recent weeks, corporate stock option practices have come under extreme regulatory and media scrutiny. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiated investigations of more than 80 companies for potential accounting and disclosure problems relating to the dating of their stock option grants. Companies and individuals have been targeted with grand jury subpoenas, and federal indictments in this area have made front-page news.

EPA will monitor the nation's progress and submit an annual report to the Congress.

On November 4, 2010, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced the simultaneous resolution of seven investigations related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") – an unprecedented event in FCPA enforcement.

A dispute between a bankrupt loan servicer and the insurer that guaranteed payments to bondholders secured by the loans, will be decided by a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in Delaware next week.

The publications in this series tackle many facets (and potential applications) of the Bankruptcy Code as potential balm and bane for owners, landlords...

On December 20, 2004 the Treasury Department and IRS released Notice 2005-1, which is the first guidance with respect to the application of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code).

Deborah B. Baum, Lewis G. Feldman, Douglas A. Praw, Michael G. Silver On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Kelo v. New London, one of the more significant property rights case in decades.

Compensation committees serving public corporations are facing unprecedented scrutiny as they react to recent executive pay reform efforts led by federal lawmakers and agencies, institutional shareholders and corporate governance watchdogs.

The European Parliament on 11 May 2005 approved amendments to the Working Time Directive which phases out the right to opt out of the 48 hour maximum working week over the next 3 years.

The IRS and Treasury have issued proposed Treasury Regulations concerning the newly enacted Internal Revenue Code section 6418 which allows eligible taxpayers to sell most clean energy tax credits...

Russia's unprecedented invasion of Ukraine has created new complexities and risks for businesses worldwide to understand and navigate. Pillsbury is actively monitoring...

Title to a U.S. patent was recently stripped from a government contractor for failing to fully and timely disclose the invention to the Army.

The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued proposed regulations implementing the provision of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) that expands the relief available to plan fiduciaries under Section 404(c) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), to include relief from liability for the investment of a plan participant’s assets in a "qualified default investment alternative" in the absence of investment direction from the participant.

The "Texas Two-Step" is a controversial legal maneuver used by businesses to shed mass-tort liabilities in bankruptcy. In a recent article featured in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal...