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In March, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released the first beta version (v0.1) of the TNFD Nature-related Risk & Opportunity Management ...
On May 17, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the plaintiff pharmaceutical manufacturer trade group in ...
On April 8, the New Zealand government commenced a consultation on legislation addressing slavery and worker exploitation. As proposed, the legislation would create due diligence ...
The “Health Care Consolidation and Contracting Fairness Act of 2022” (the “Bill” or “AB-2080”), has advanced out of ...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) has continued to amplify its scrutiny over media companies and the apps that ...
China’s National Medical Products Administration (“NMPA”) recently announced a comprehensive draft amendment (“Draft Amendment”) to the Implementation Regulation of ...
On April 8, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released a draft guidance document titled “Cybersecurity in Medical Devices ...
On April 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule revising the way Medicare determines the ...
Over the last year, several jurisdictions have proposed or adopted mandatory human rights due diligence legislation that requires a more robust corporate response to human ...
On May 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued broad restrictions against ...
Calendar 2021 U.S. Conflict Minerals Rule filings are due on May 31. Although the substantive requirements have not changed since last year, there are ...
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a favorable advisory opinion on physician ownership. The decision should be good news for some manufacturers ...
On April 18, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year ( ...
Click here to read the full Memorandum. Ropes & Gray’s memorandum summarizing the 2022 Investment Management Conference sponsored by the Investment Company Institute ...
In 2019, the Uniform Law Commission (“ULC”) and the American Law Institute (“ALI”) appointed a joint committee to review the Uniform ...
Set against the backdrop of the continuing wave of ERISA litigation that is being brought against employers who sponsor retirement plans, Pooled Employer Plans ( ...
In response to Russia’s continued military invasion of Ukraine, both the United Kingdom and the European Union have implemented additional asset freeze and ...
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed long-awaited rules that would mandate enhanced climate-related disclosures by public companies. In this Alert, we ...
2022 ICI Investment Management Conference As we have in prior years, Ropes & Gray will soon distribute its summary of the speeches and panels at ...
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of PErspectives—our periodic publication featuring news, trends and legal developments in the private equity (PE) industry. In ...
On April 6-7, the Biden administration announced another set of sanctions and export restrictions targeting Russia in response to its ongoing invasion of ...
On March 29, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a favorable decision for the plaintiff hospitals in Sentara Hospitals ...
This Alert summarizes actions taken in the United Kingdom and the European Union since our Alert dated March 16, published here. In particular, the United ...
China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) issued the Draft Implementing Rules on the Administrative Regulations on Human Genetic Resources for public comment ...
On March 24, the Biden administration announced a fresh round of sanctions and other trade restrictions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...