AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Compliance Tip of the Day: Using GenAI to Make Small Transformations
Great Women in Compliance: Humans at the Center of Strategy with Patrícia Godoy Oliveira
Compliance into the Weeds: End of FCPA and CFPB?
Daily Compliance News: February 12, 2025, The Hui Chen on Bondi Memo Edition
Fostering Teamwork: Lessons From the Dynamic Duo of Monsters, Inc. — Hiring to Firing Podcast
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 8: What Healthcare Companies Need to Know When the Government Comes Knocking
Compliance Tip of the Day: Building Trust in AI with Blockchain
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring NLP and Burnout Recovery - Insights from Irina Alexander and Jen Hardy
Everything Compliance, Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 150, The Musk On Edition
SBR Authors Podcast: Finding Solace and Self-Discovery through Writing: A Conversation with Dan Mazur
Daily Compliance News: February 11, 2025, The Pause in FCPA Enforcement Edition
All Things Investigations: CFIUS - Balancing Security, Investment and Innovation with Sean Reilly
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: Leadership Lessons from ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’
Compliance Tip of the Day: Building a Data-Driven Culture
Adventures in Compliance: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: Leadership Lessons from ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’
FCPA Compliance Report: Workplace Culture and Compliance with Alejandra Almonte and Ann Sultan
Daily Compliance News: February 10, 2025 The For Immediate Compliance Edition
Sunday Book Review: February 9, 2025, The Business Fairness at Work Edition
2 Gurus Talk Compliance - Episode 45 - The Snow in Florida Edition
2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more
For private equity investors, the arrival of the 119th Congress and the new Trump administration shifts the landscape, creating uncertainty, challenge and opportunity in equal measure and highlighting the need for political...more
We continue to observe the growth of professional sports as an asset class, with private capital having transformed team investments in recent years from trophy assets to opportunities for significant growth....more
The past year once again saw a breadth of court decisions addressing a wide variety of directors and officers and professional liability insurance coverage issues. At various levels, state and federal courts across the...more
I was an early adopter of virtual networking. As an introvert and remote worker, for me, the ability to connect from my computer from wherever I am has a variety of benefits and always will – I know that I’m not alone in...more
Just over two months ago, the Kansas City Chiefs were still two-time defending Super Bowl champions, Luka Doncic was a Dallas Maverick, and the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit was...more
Continued AI innovation, pent-up cash balances, and the potential for renewed investor optimism and increased regulatory clarity will likely drive dealmaking later this year, after the bout of market uncertainty subsides....more
During Valentine’s Day month, we are taking a look at 50-50 owned private businesses. Forming a co-owned company may sound like a good idea on paper because the two partners are close friends or family members who are making...more
President Donald Trump’s “Return to In-Person Work” executive order (EO) mandates that federal employees return to full-time office work. This EO effectively ended the widespread hybrid and remote work arrangements that had...more
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), passed in the wake of Watergate, prohibits U.S.-linked companies and individuals from bribing foreign government officials to procure international business and hiding the bribes in...more
On February 11, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda asked the Eighth Circuit not to schedule oral arguments for the SEC’s climate disclosure rules, which were adopted in March 2024, and soon...more
While the original guidelines focused primarily on per se illegal wage-fixing and no-poach agreements, the 2025 Guidelines illustrate a significant expansion in enforcement, broadening scrutiny to compensation benchmarking,...more
Every three years on April 1, the dollar amounts in the Bankruptcy Code are adjusted to account for inflation. The April 1, 2025, increase will be approximately 13.2%, even larger than the nearly 11% increase three years ago....more
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed an employer to enforce a “forfeiture-for-competition” against a former plant manager. The Court explained that, under Delaware law, forfeiture-for...more
Is there a law to protect whistleblowers? If so, which law? In Argentina, no specific legislation is dedicated exclusively to protecting whistleblowers within the private sector. However, in the public sector, Law No. 21,592...more
On February 10, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order pausing enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), citing concerns that excessive enforcement was harming American businesses...more
Conducting an asset sale through a bankruptcy auction — a Section 363 sale — is an effective and common M&A tool for a distressed company. In anticipation of a 363 sale, a Chapter 11 debtor typically tries before its...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (“EO”) titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.” This EO comes on the tail of Attorney...more
On February 7, 2025, the Second Circuit ruled that the crime-fraud exception would prevent the former CEO of a public company from invoking attorney-client privilege to prevent an outside lawyer and his law firm from...more
I recently posted a blog about Texas sales tax nexus in which I laid out the basic rules for determining whether a taxpayer has nexus with the State of Texas (and thus has a permit, collection, and/or reporting requirement...more
Woodruff Sawyer’s D&O Databox™ Year-End Report provides insights about securities class action activities, developments, and historical trends—sourced from Databox, our proprietary database and leading resource for securities...more
In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final rules governing pre-merger notification protocols under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act). The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice quickly...more
As we previously reported, on January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the U.S. government in relation to the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) – granting an emergency application to...more
The order pauses new FCPA criminal cases, directs review of existing cases, and leaves open several questions, including implications for specific business sectors and civil enforcement....more
In 2023, as discussed in this PubCo post, the Edelman Trust Barometer found that business was viewed as “the only trusted institution” at 62%—“the sole institution seen as competent and ethical.” Although, in the 2025 Edelman...more