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.
On November 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled in Dittman v. UPMC d/b/a The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center that an ...
On December 21, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) (available here ...
In Notice 2019-09, issued December 31, 2018 (the “Notice”), Treasury and the IRS have provided interim guidance on the excise tax on ...
On December 19, 2018, the SEC issued a release (the “Release”) proposing new Rule 12d1-4 and related amendments under the 1940 Act ...
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (“EGRRCPA”), enacted on May 24, 2018, amended section 13 of the Bank Holding Company ...
Two key European Union bodies have told the European Commission that they will not approve its draft adequacy decision on the protection of personal data ...
On December 18, 2018, the SEC adopted the long-awaited hedging disclosure rule, as required by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform ...
On December 14, 2018, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued a Risk Alert to share its observations ...
One week after Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced key DOJ policy revisions focusing on individual accountability, a federal jury in Manhattan convicted Hong ...
In Notice 2018-99, issued December 10, 2018 (the “Notice”), the IRS has provided interim guidance on determining the amount of unrelated business ...
The following summarizes recent legal developments of note affecting the mutual fund/investment management industry: SEC Announces Exam Initiatives Focused on Specific Types of Funds ...
On November 30, 2018, the SEC adopted Rule 139b under the Securities Act of 1933, which establishes a non-exclusive safe harbor for independent broker ...
A review of the U.K. asset management and wholesale banking sectors by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has found that regulated firms ...
This article by partner Ama Adams, counsel Brendan Hanifin and associate Emerson Siegle was published by Law360 on December ...
Scott McKeown, Ropes & Gray IP litigation partner and chair of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) group, examines how ...
In an opinion released on November 30, 2018, federal Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan dismissed a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ...
On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Lorenzo v. SEC, which involves an attempt by the SEC to use ...
On November 20, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on FDA&rsquo ...
This article by Ama Adams, Brendan Hanifin, and Emerson Siegle was published by Law360 on November 30, 2018. On November 19, 2018, Sociét ...
On November 29, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein delivered remarks at the American Conference Institute’s 35th International Conference on the Foreign ...
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) have both released updates to their proxy voting guidelines.1 This Alert briefly ...
On November 15, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published a proposed rule1 that would allow institutional review boards (&ldquo ...
This Article was prepared by Michael Littenberg for Practising Law Institute’s 50th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, which was held during November 2018 ...
In an earlier article authored by Ropes & Gray attorneys, we summarized the implications of the “Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McClinn, and Matthew ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently released major final and proposed rules affecting a range of providers, Medicare Advantage and ...
