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The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation takes effect on January 1, 2021. With the effective date of the Regulation nearing, last Thursday, the European Commission published ...
On December 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or Department) published its final prohibited transaction exemption addressing investment advice fiduciaries to ERISA ...
On December 10, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS ...
This article was originally published by Law360 on Dec. 3, 2020. While 2020 will almost certainly not be remembered as the year in which cryptocurrency ...
Last week, BlackRock Investment Stewardship published its 2021 Stewardship Expectations. The Stewardship Expectations update BIS’ Global Principles and market-specific voting guidelines. For 2021 ...
On December 3, 2020, Secretary Alex Azar (the “Secretary”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued ...
With Brexit on the horizon, potential changes to data transfer laws raise the spectre of disruption to personal data transfers from the European Economic Area ...
On December 11, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) adopted a final rule amending the investment duties regulation under ERISA to address how ...
Transaction Monitoring Netherlands (TMNL), a novel collective monitoring initiative designed to counter sophisticated money laundering and terrorism financing activity in the Netherlands, is set to ...
On November 16, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a Special Fraud Alert (“SFA ...
On November 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it had entered into settlement agreements with a Johnson & ...
Since our last IM Update, the SEC finalized rulemakings concerning the framework for fund fair valuation practices, funds’ use of derivatives and fund of ...
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has delivered a sobering punctuation mark to a sobering year through In re ...
On November 20, 2020 the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the HHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued ...
On December 3, 2020, the SEC issued a release adopting Rule 2a-5 (the “Rule”) under the 1940 Act (the “Release ...
On November 24, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to Rule 701 and Form S-8 to reflect ...
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 ...
