Daily Compliance News: October 15, 2024 – The Outside Counsel Edition
Innovation in Compliance: Tech Evolution in Real Estate Law: A Conversation with Christy-Ann Jordaan
Kerrville Weekly News Roundup: October 12, 2024
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending October 12, 2024
The Ethics Experts: Episode 185 – Tobias Sturesson
Riskology by Infortal: Episode 34 – The Hezbollah Pager Attack & Supply Chain Compliance
Corruption, Crime and Compliance: DOJ Updates Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
Compliance Tip of the Day: Lessons on GTE from John Deere
FCPA Compliance Report: From Inputs to Outputs – Roxanne Petraeus and Susan Divers on Rethinking Compliance
Daily Compliance News: October 14, 2024 – The Do GC’s Face Peril Edition
Adventures in Compliance: Introduction to The Case – Book of Sherlock Holmes
Sunday Book Review: October 13, 2024 The books Featuring Count Dracula Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 55 – A Former Singapore Regulator Reflects on the World of Virtual Assets with Angela Ang
Compliance Tip of the Day: Reinforce Whistleblower Policies Through Training and Comms
Compliance and AI: Navigating Compliance with AI – Sage Franch and Scott McCleskey on RuleBook AI
Daily Compliance News: October 11, 2024 – The Breaking Up May Be Hard to Do Edition
Public-Private Partnerships to Stem Corruption
Business Integrity Innovations: Championing Integrity – Em Ekong on the Future of African Entrepreneurship
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assess and Act on Internal Reports Thoroughly
Everything Compliance: Episode 142, The 2024 ECCP Episode
Business divorces take place in all types of private companies, including those owned and operated by family members. But families that are willing to engage in thoughtful planning can head off some of the internal conflicts...more
The wait is over! On October 10th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously approved the first significant revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act premerger notification regime since its inception over 40...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Final Rule mandates the adoption of new, expanded Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) forms and the creation of a public comment portal for pending transactions. The new HSR forms will become...more
Read our thought leadership report which offers valuable insights and knowledge from our global team of lawyers to help you stay ahead of the curve in the ever-changing world of AI and ESG. As Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 5-0 to issue new final rules (Rules) governing the US premerger notification filing process. These Rules – the first major overhaul to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR)...more
AlexSam, Inc. v. Aetna, Inc., Appeal No. 2022-2036 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 8, 2024) In the Court’s only precedential patent opinion last week, a panel of the Federal Circuit granted appellant AlexSam a second chance to hold...more
The Payment Systems Regulator has published a policy statement confirming the maximum level of Authorized Push Payment scam reimbursement. The statement follows the PSRs recent announcement confirming its decision to reduce...more
The members of Maynard Nexsen’s Public Company Advisory Practice counsel public companies and companies aiming to become public on the full range of matters shaping their governance and operation in the public markets. As a...more
The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative has published a 2024 progress report produced by the Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Launched in 2021, the NZBA is a bank-led alliance of 144 banks globally voluntarily...more
In part two of the three-part Hiring to Firing series, host Tracey Diamond and new co-host Emily Schifter dive into the complexities of managing employees’ political beliefs and discourse in the workplace, just in time for...more
More than ever, artificial intelligence (AI) is being implemented as a powerful tool to improve our lives and businesses. But with its benefits comes a host of risks – and regulators are homing in on its use as a tool for...more
The Bank of England has published the record of the Financial Policy Committee meeting on September 19, 2024. Headline judgements and policy actions from the meeting: (i) risks to U.K. financial stability are broadly...more
The Single Resolution Board has published a communication on the changes to its minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities policy to be implemented in line with the "Daisy Chains Directive" (Directive (EU)...more
As we previously reported here and here, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 525, which provides a tiered approach for the increase of minimum wages for the state’s health care workers...more
We are increasingly seeing requests for a committed acquisition/capex facility – often referred to as a Delayed Draw Term Loan (DDTL) – to be included as part of the initial capital structure on European syndicated leveraged...more
I was recently asked whether public companies are required, as a technical matter, to have principal accounting officers (PAOs). While PAOs are not strictly required, companies without PAOs should be aware of the result—that...more
As we near the end of 2024, this is the perfect time to reexamine your tax and estate planning action items. There are plenty to address, and it’s wise to do so sooner rather than later. In reviewing year-end estate planning...more
Not to be outdone by Nasdaq, the NYSE is now also proposing to take on the challenge of repeated reverse stock splits. More specifically, the NYSE proposes to limit the circumstances under which a listed company may use a...more
Modern businesses have to be compliant with data privacy regulations. Everyone knows that. But nobody likes being told they have to do something. Especially not when that something seems like an expensive, complicated...more
On 10 October 2024, the UK government published its Employment Rights Bill. This bill includes many of the measures previously set out in the Labour Party’s “Plan to Make Work Pay” and the King’s Speech. See our July 2024 UK...more
More than a year after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first proposed far-reaching changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) pre-merger notification rules, the FTC—via a unanimous and therefore bipartisan vote of its...more
Fifteen months ago, the FTC and DOJ proposed a radical expansion of the information required to be provided to the antitrust agencies by merging parties as part of a premerger notification filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino...more
Adult possession and use of cannabis has been legal in Maryland since Maryland’s Cannabis Reform Act (“CRA”) took effect in July 2023. The CRA established the Maryland Cannabis Administration (“MCA”) and tasked it with...more
The march toward mandated corporate disclosures for climate-related risks continues. Despite significant pushback and substantial legal challenges, state legislatures and regulators are continuing to advance laws and rules...more
We continue our exploration of the resolution of the AML/BSA enforcement action involving TD Bank US (the Bank), which is wholly owned by TD Bank Group, a publicly traded (NYSE: TD) international banking and financial...more