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On July 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published in the Federal Register a proposed amendment to the qualified professional asset manager ...
On 26 June 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the “MHRA”) published the Government’s response (the “Response ...
Introduction In recent decades, technologies and medical treatments involving substances of human origin (‘SoHOs’) have proliferated and undergone significant advancements, improving their potential ...
This Alert was originally published on July 25, 2022. It was updated on July 29, 2022. In response to Russia’s continued military ...
Private Equity International’s 2022 special report on Japan featured insights from Ropes & Gray on dealmaking trends. In a Q&A feature ...
As described in this Ropes & Gray Alert, on July 22, 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to its rules governing proxy solicitations and the filing ...
Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act requires issuers that are subject to the federal proxy rules to include shareholder proposals in their proxy statements ...
Background On July 7, 2022, the Cyberspace Affairs Commission (“CAC”) of China issued the Measures on Security Assessment of Cross-Border Data ...
On June 30, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced four enforcement actions involving allegations of fraud in the cryptocurrency space. The enforcement ...
Introduction On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning precedent that protected access ...
Click here to read the full Newsletter. The landscape of government enforcement, private litigation, and federal and state regulation of digital assets, blockchain and related ...
Last month, ISS ESG, the responsible investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services, introduced its Modern Slavery Scorecard. The Scorecard evaluates 25 quantitative and qualitative factors ...
A federal court recently rejected a jury’s verdict concluding that a disputed digital asset was not a security, and ordered a new trial ...
The forced labor presumption in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act took effect on June 21. While that Act garnered significant attention from the time ...
While the CMA unconditionally clears the vast majority of software deals at Phase I, 50% (3) of the CMA’s active Phase II investigations ...
On June 15, 2022, a unanimous United States Supreme Court decided in favor of the American Hospital Association (“AHA”) in its challenge to ...
To paraphrase two out of fashion economic observers: There is a spectre haunting the market—the spectre of recession. And inasmuch as inflation was ...
On December 23, 2021, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was signed into law. The Act creates a presumption for purposes of Section 307 of ...
On June 15, 2022, the SEC issued a release (the “Release”) focused on index providers, model portfolio providers, and pricing services (“Information ...
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unexpectedly granted certiorari in a False Claims Act (“FCA”)1 case that asks the Court to ...
The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overruling Roe v. Wade will have far-reaching ...
In the first action of its kind, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently charged registered broker-dealer Western International Securities, Inc. ( ...
On June 21, 2022, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Katherine K. Vidal issued new, binding interim guidance addressing the Patent Trial and ...
On 17 June 2022, the UK government released its much anticipated response to the consultation on the reform of the UK data protection regime. As ...
On May 31, 2022, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (the “DFPI”) published an Invitation for Comments on Crypto Asset-Related ...