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On August 21, 2019, the SEC published two releases: Commission Guidance Regarding Proxy Voting Responsibilities of Investment Advisers (the “IA Release”) and Commission ...
Third parties serve a critical function to multinational life sciences companies (“MNCs”) internationally. MNCs rely on third parties for various functions, including distribution ...
On August 19, 2019, the Business Roundtable (BRT) released a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation (the Statement), superseding previous BRT statements and ...
New York has recently enacted two laws expanding its breach notification and security safeguards requirements, and it may be poised to pass a third bill ...
On August 20, 2019, the SEC settled charges against TherapeuticsMD, a Florida-based life sciences company, for violating Regulation FD by selectively communicating to sell ...
After continuously reshaping the competitive landscape in the pharmaceutical industry for several years, the Chinese government finally shifted its attention to the medtech industry. The ...
On August 8, 2019, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a California district court’s decision allowing plaintiffs to proceed ...
In an opinion issued in May of this year, the Federal Circuit ruled for the first time that the ITC’s decisions regarding trademark ...
I. Introduction On June 28, 2019, the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (Parquet National Financier)(“PNF”)1 and the French Anti ...
The following summarizes recent legal developments of note affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry: SEC No-Action Letter Provides More Flexibility Under Manager-of ...
On August 8, 2019, as part of its Disclosure Effectiveness effort, the SEC proposed amendments to three discrete Regulation S-K items – business description ...
In the wake of the IRS’ Ninth Circuit victory in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Circuit 2019), the IRS ...
In an August 5 holding that could open the door to a new breed of litigation claims involving mutual funds, the United States Court of ...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (the “CFTC”) Division of Market Oversight recently issued CFTC Letter No. 19-19, which ...
On May 31, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) held a much-anticipated public hearing regarding “Scientific Data and ...
With the widespread arrival of Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) over the last several years,1 U.S. authorities have made deliberate progress toward ...
On Tuesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa sent a letter to the General Accountability Office asking it to examine “how federal ...
This article by counsel Valerie Bonham and partners Kirsten Mayer and Mark Barnes was published by Law360 on August 8 ...
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two significant proposed rules: (a) a Proposed Rule that addresses changes to ...
In a decisive August 5 ruling that could be the final nail in the coffin for plaintiffs’ efforts to compare advisory and subadvisory fees ...
On August 5, 2019, President Donald Trump issued an “Executive Order on Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela” (the “Order ...
On July 24, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook” or the “Company”) would pay ...
Our global infrastructure is struggling to cope with the pace with which our society is creating, consuming and sharing data. With the rapid growth in ...
Peter Brody, Ropes & Gray IP litigation partner, discusses the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and how it has changed the trade secret litigation landscape ...
On July 11, 2019, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (the “Division”) announced for the first time that it ...
