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Executive Summary Introduction. On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) and ...
Corruption has long been a “chronic and well-known problem” in the Venezuelan oil industry.1 In recent years, investigations—mostly led ...
On October 31, 2020, just days before the highly anticipated U.S. presidential election, Côte d’Ivoire’s citizens went to ...
Since the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) “Schrems II” judgment on 16th July 2020, data controllers subject to ...
On November 29, a public referendum was held to amend the Swiss constitution that would have required mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence by ...
On November 23, 2020, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued ...
Summary In November, the UK Government announced a significant and wide-ranging package of reforms that, if adopted, will both recalibrate and expand its existing ...
At the end of October, a Modern Slavery Act was introduced in the Canadian Senate. The proposed Act is substantially similar to bills introduced earlier ...
On October 21, 2020 the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress published for public comment the first draft of the Personal Information ...
Click here to read the full Newsletter. In the midst of a pandemic, a reckoning with racial injustice and the biggest sustained protest movement in ...
Continuing on its methodical march through the corporate disclosure rulebook, the SEC last week adopted final amendments to the disclosure rules affecting Management’s ...
On Friday, November 20, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an interim final rule (IFR) with comment period that implements a nationwide ...
This article was originally published by Law360 on November 6, 2020. Globally, companies continue to face the economic realities created by the COVID-19 ...
On October 8, 2020, the Department of Justice released “Cryptocurrency: An Enforcement Framework” (the “Framework”), setting out risks and enforcement initiatives ...
The SEC this week adopted final rules that permit a signatory to an SEC filing to electronically sign a document that authenticates his or her ...
On November 12, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies (the ...
The SEC adopted new rules under the title “Facilitating Capital Formation and Expanding Investment Opportunities by Improving Access to Capital in Private Markets. ...
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published a new chapter in its internal Operational Handbook, which provides guidance on the SFO’s approach ...
On October 29, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Department of Labor (“DOL”), and the Department of ...
Two final rules affecting the scope of bank involvement in the asset management industry went into effect September 30, 2020. The first revises the Federal ...
Recipients of loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”)—a Small Business Administration (“SBA”) loan program established by the Coronavirus ...
In Notice 2020-75, the Treasury/IRS announced that proposed regulations will be issued to provide certainty that income tax payments made by partnerships and ...
Overview In a three-to-two vote on October 15, 2020, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) finalized revised speculative ...
On November 2, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking expanding the obligations of DEA registrants to monitor ...
What a week. The election has been called. However, the debate over mandatory ESG reporting is just heating up. With the presumed election of Joe ...
