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By Maydeen Merino | November 27, 2023
"There's a natural competition among regulators to try to be the first," said Maneesha Mithal, who led the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection for more than a decade.
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By Jack Womack | November 23, 2023
A&O faces having confidential data published on the dark web following an attack by ransomware group LockBit—a cyber security expert explains how the firm's merger with Shearman could well have caught the hackers' attention.
7 minute read
By Jack Womack | Paul Hodkinson | November 20, 2023
A quieter deal market has affected the controversial practice, meaning that 'lenders don't feel they're being told what to do', according to advisers.
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By Alaina Lancaster | November 17, 2023
"In Singapore, it's not good enough to say 'I'm good at lawyering,'" Seah said. "You need to be very, very aware of the commercial context in which our clients operate—the business climate and the geopolitical climate."
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By Justin Henry | November 16, 2023
"Chinese companies need to understand our tax laws, the differences between states, et cetera," said Gary Locke. "All of this is really an extension of the work I did as governor, U.S. commerce secretary and ambassador to China."
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By Jessica Seah | November 15, 2023
Once the bill passes, Singapore will join such countries as China, Japan, the U.S., Australia and the U.K., which have comparable investment regulations.
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By Jack Womack | November 15, 2023
Earlier this week, the UK's Serious Fraud Office arrested seven individuals and carried out searches across nine locations as part of a criminal investigation into Axiom Ince.
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By Alex D'Elia | November 15, 2023
Major firms have taken the 'unprecedented' step of issuing public statements following an agreement between Socialists and Catalan separatists.
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By Tracey Dovaston and Alessia de Quincey, Pallas Partners | November 14, 2023
The precise parameters of how non-financial misconduct is treated by the regulator has remained unclear and undefined.
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By Jack Womack | November 14, 2023
SFO investigators were accompanied by Metropolitan Police officers as they raided offices in locations in the South East of England early Tuesday morning.
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By Chris O'Malley | May 10, 2024
In the United States, regulators are increasingly holding companies accountable for the compliance problems of their third-party vendors. Elsewhere, a new law in the United Kingdom will help prosecutors pursue corporate fraud, and a new EU regulation takes aim at subsidies granted by nonmember states that give companies an undue economic advantage.
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By Chris O'Malley | May 10, 2024
In the United States, regulators are increasingly holding companies accountable for the compliance problems of their third-party vendors. Elsewhere, a new law in the United Kingdom will help prosecutors pursue corporate fraud, and a new EU regulation takes aim at subsidies granted by nonmember states that give companies an undue economic advantage.
5 minute read
By Jack Womack | May 10, 2024
Law firms have been grappling with the regime of sanctions introduced in the U.K. following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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By Maydeen Merino | May 9, 2024
"You're going to still see enforcement by some states for time, space and scope-type noncompete roles," said Gwendolyn Lindsay Coole, Wisconsin's antitrust chief.
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By Maydeen Merino | May 7, 2024
Proposed legislation would allow private parties in an administrative proceeding to remove their case to federal court before adjudication.
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By Maydeen Merino | May 6, 2024
"In using those words in the ... act, Congress wasn't drafting new words," said Kate Mueting of Sanford Heisler Sharp. "They were using words that had a meaning, that had precedent attached to them.
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By Maria Dinzeo | May 6, 2024
The development is a setback for Robinhood legal chief Dan Gallagher, who has championed a strategy of engaging with the agency and is himself a former SEC commissioner.
3 minute read
By Michael Slocum and Pamela White | May 6, 2024
"In two pending cases ... the Supreme Court will consider whether to significantly modify the doctrine, or even abandon it completely," write Michael Slocum and Pamela White of Greenberg Traurig.
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By Maria Dinzeo | May 6, 2024
Most of the 13 companies disclosing "material" breaches reported the incidents quickly but with few details. "Some [filings] are quite skinny in terms of facts, and you can see the SEC disagreeing with their compliance because they are relatively thin," Debevoise & Plimpton partner Ben Pedersen said.
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By Greg Andrews | May 6, 2024
The idea is gaining credence in both Democratic and Republican states that when job candidates negotiate blind—without knowing what others holding similar jobs in an organization earn—women and minorities fare worst.
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