Ropes & Gray attorneys regularly write articles and provide commentary to our clients and to the world’s leading financial, business and legal publications, analyzing important legal developments and explaining their impact.
Introduction For more than twenty years, qui tam relators have played a significant role in setting the agenda for enforcement of the Federal Food, Drug ...
Welcome to the inaugural edition of PErspectives – our quarterly publication featuring news, trends and legal developments in the private equity industry. We are ...
On November 20, 2019, the Fraud Section of DOJ’s Criminal Division announced changes to its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) Corporate ...
Eleven years after its portfolio company’s bankruptcy triggered a multiemployer pension plan’s demand that funds sponsored by private equity firm Sun ...
Anti-corruption and international risk partner Ama Adams is profiled as one of Global Investigations Review’s “D.C. sanctions lawyers to have ...
In September 2019, a speech made by Matthew Miner, deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal division, announced ...
On November 14, 2019, the SEC issued notices for four “semi-transparent” active ETF models – the T. Rowe, Fidelity, Blue Tractor, and ...
On November 12, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a decision of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of ...
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) have both released updates to their proxy voting guidelines.1 This Alert briefly ...
In Kisor v. Wilkie1—a closely watched case decided in a closely divided opinion towards the end of the Supreme Court’s last ...
On Friday, November 8, 2019, a jury found the former Alstom executive, Lawrence Hoskins, guilty for his role in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar foreign ...
UK anti-money laundering (“AML”) authorities are receiving more Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”) than ever. The numbers of cases in which ...
Reform of proxy advisory firms and the shareholder proposal process has been on the business community’s agenda for some time. On November 5 ...
On 23 October 2019, the UK Supreme Court decided that Professor Ian Shanks, a former employee of Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd (“UCRL ...
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) inspired legislators in several other states to attempt to pass similar legislation aimed at protecting the privacy rights of ...
On October 31, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) published an interim final rule (“IFR”) establishing a domestic hemp ...
On November 4, 2019, the IRS announced that the LB&I division will begin examining 2017 and 2018 tax returns for compliance ...
Reprinted with permission from the October 28, 2019 edition of the “New York Law Journal”© 2017 ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights ...
Introduction In June 2017, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Kokesh decision, which unanimously held that the remedy of “disgorgement” – regularly imposed ...
This Article was prepared by Michael Littenberg and Nellie Binder for Practising Law Institute’s 51st Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, which will be ...
On October 17, 2019, the SEC’s Division of Investment Management published Staff Responses to Inquiries Regarding Business Development Companies and Section 61(a ...
On October 9, 2019, IRS released Revenue Ruling 2019-24, 2019-44 IRB, which provides new guidance on the Service’s handling of cryptocurrencies ...
On October 8, 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ” or the “Government”) issued new guidance ...
On 16 October 2019, the Bank of England (“BoE”) and Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a joint report on the use ...
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) and Centers for Medicaid ...
