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Under the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009, signed into law by President Obama on November 6, 2009, taxpayers may elect to carry back net operating losses arising in a 2008 or 2009 tax year for up to 5 years.

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued a Consultation Paper proposing new rules intended to streamline the process for recovering assets from a failed investment firm.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has proposed and is requesting comment on “Proposed Research Registration and Conflict of Interest Rules” (Regulatory Notice 08-55), which would liberalize existing rules restricting the issuance of analyst research around initial public offerings and secondary offerings.

On October 1, 2009, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, released draft legislation nearly identical to proposed legislation released by the Obama administration in July, with one major exception: Rep. Kanjorski’s bill, which can be found here, would exempt any adviser to a “venture capital fund” from the registration requirements of the bill.

Last year’s decision by the Delaware Chancery Court in “Levy v. HLI Operating Company, Inc.” has resulted in a re-thinking of indemnification arrangements by companies and their private equity and venture capital investors.

Supervision is a daily fact of life for bank boards and management. Below, we offer strategies for how both board members and members of management can ensure that the supervisory process goes as smoothly as possible.

In a recent ruling declining to dismiss the Chapter 11 cases of several subsidiaries of General Growth Properties ("GGP"), the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York demonstrated that special purpose entities ("SPEs"), designed to avoid bankruptcy, can nonetheless be subject to bankruptcy proceedings.

On June 24, 2020, New York's Department of Financial Services ("DFS") announced a series of steps it is taking to promote development and opportunities in the virtual currency space.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court decision dismissing claims brought by a participant in a defined contribution plan against his employer for losses incurred when his plan account was transferred from a stable value fund to a life cycle fund that qualified as a QDIA.

Securities registration fee rates for mutual funds registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), will be increasing nearly 42%, 5 days after the President signs the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (the “Appropriations Act”).

When the 775-room New York Helmsley Hotel in midtown Manhattan went up for sale, Host Hotels & Resorts snapped it up for US$313.5 million.

It's here! Goodwin's Public Company Advisory Practice has completed its 2021-2022 Form 10-K Form Check Table for December 31 fiscal year-end companies.

In June 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a proposed settlement with Healthline, a health information website, for its handling of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

In the past few weeks, the European Commission provided marketing authorization for biosimilars of denosumab and omalizumab, as well as an ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab.

On November 24, 2025, Alvotech announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved AVT03 as a biosimilar to Amgen's PROLIA® and XGEVA® (denosumab)...

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is the first comprehensive regulatory framework for AI systems globally. It mandates specific obligations based on risk categories, with high-risk AI systems facing.

ISS STOXX Governance has released the results of its annual global benchmark policy survey, revealing significant divisions between institutional investors and corporate respondents on critical governance issues. The survey examined contentious topics including director independence criteria, the potential shift to semiannual reporting, say-on-pay voting requirements, and nature-related risk disclosures...

In April 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission...