Sunday Book Review: December 14, 2025, The Best Books on Business Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending December 13, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 65 – The This Is Nuts Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day – Ethical Deployment of AI Powered Controls
Founding Vision: Mike Halpert on VR Training and Entrepreneurial Resilience
AI Today in 5: December 12, 2025, The Person of the Year Edition
Daily Compliance News: December 12, 2025, The All New York Times Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 84 - From Asset Recovery to AI Revolution: Risk, Coordination, and the Future with Sangeet Paul Choudary and Dr. Amber Phillips
Practical IP Lessons From the Field Part Two: Navigating IP Risk in Oil & Gas - Energy Law Insights
Compliance Tip of the Day - What are AI Powered Internal Controls?
AI Today in 5: December 11, 2025, The FINRA and AI Edition
Daily Compliance News: December 11, 2025, The Jack Smith Opens New Law Firm Edition
Compliance into the Weeds: Live from the Floor of ACI
Great Women in Compliance - Global Corruption Prevention: A View from France
Compliance Tip of the Day – Improvement of Internal Controls
AI Boom and What the Future Holds - Data Centers Series
AI Today in 5: December 10, 2025, The Redefining Compliance Edition
Daily Compliance News: December 10, 2025, The US Credibility Under Strain Edition
ACI Post Conference Reflections: Vince Walden on AI and Data Analytics in Anti-Corruption Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day - Monitoring of Internal Controls
In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or...more
Welcome to 10 For 10, the podcast that brings you the week’s Top 10 compliance stories in one podcast each week. Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, brings you the compliance stories you need to know to end your busy week. Sit...more
A recently issued Amendment to the proposed FY2026 NDAA would call for the U.S. Secretary of Defense to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to require the withholding of payment to incumbent...more
The business judgment rule is a common-law principle that generally prohibits courts from questioning the propriety of actions taken by corporate directors and officers, provided those actions are taken in good faith, with...more
In October 2023, California enacted Senate Bill 54 (SB 54) to promote transparency in venture capital funding by requiring firms with a California nexus to report demographic data on the founding teams of their portfolio...more
Today, the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan capital formation bill, H.R. 3383 or the Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation (“INVEST”) Act of 2025, 302 to 123. Announced by...more
Q3 2025 confirmed what many venture observers suspected: startups deploying or developing AI technologies continue to command higher valuations than their non-AI peers, with 2.5x higher revenue multiples (20x vs. 8x). ...more
On November 26, 2025, Vice Chancellor Fioravanti issued a 75-page opinion dismissing plaintiffs’ complaint in DrugCrafters, L.P., et al. v. Loh, et al., C.A. No. 2024-0111-PAF. The action was brought by former Paratek...more
Restaurant deals almost always involve some mix of: A chef or operator contributing sweat and expertise, One or more money partners, and Maybe a landlord, advisor, or brand partner in the background....more
In Target Insurance Company Limited v Nerico Brothers Limited & Lee Cheuk Fung Jerff (2025) HKCA 1024, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal has handed down its Reasons for Judgment clarifying when a director may be made personally...more
The New York LLC Transparency Act (NYLLCTA) takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026 (as we previously covered here and here). The NYLLCTA was largely modeled on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a federal law that came into effect...more
Edwards v. GigaAcquisitions2, LLC, C.A. No. 2024-0591-LWW (Del. Ch. July 25, 2025) - The Court of Chancery dismissed at the pleading stage a claim by former members of a now-bankrupt health care company (the “Company”)...more
On December 5, 2025, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) ordered every 8(a) participant (over 4,300 firms) to submit detailed financial records covering the last three fiscal years. The deadline is January 5, 2026. ...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Fenwick’s Securities Law Update. This issue contains updates and important reminders on the following topics...more
The SEC’s recent policy change on issuer-investor mandatory arbitration provisions has prompted quick reactions from proxy advisors and early adopters in the market—setting the stage for renewed debate over whether companies...more
Glass Lewis has released its 2026 US Benchmark Policy Guidelines, which will apply to shareholder meetings held on or after January 1, 2026. Consistent with recent years, the updates are incremental rather than structural,...more
Wong Leung Revocable Tr. v. Amazon.com, No. 487 (Del. July 29, 2025) - In the wake of antitrust investigations and an action filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an Amazon stockholder sought books and records to...more
For two decades, Fenwick has reported on corporate governance statistics and trends among the S&P 100 and Silicon Valley’s largest public technology and life science companies, with the goal of educating public company...more
ISS and Glass Lewis recently announced their annual policy updates for the upcoming proxy season....more
On November 24, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued final regulations on Section 4501, which imposes a 1% excise tax on certain repurchases of stock of publicly traded corporations and “economically...more
Last night, the Trump Administration issued this executive order (and a related fact sheet) aimed at the proxy advisors in the US, specifically ISS and Glass Lewis. ...more
On December 9, 2025, CARB posted initial proposed regulations concerning SB 253 and SB 261. ...more
The Tennessee Supreme Court recently rejected a manufacturer’s effort to set aside a $900,000 jury verdict for a former distributor’s shareholders for want of standing and jurisdiction. Houghton v. Malibu Boats, LLC, 2025 WL...more
What happens when two top compliance commentators get together? They talk compliance, of course. Join Tom Fox and Kristy Grant-Hart in 2 Gurus Talk Compliance as they discuss the latest compliance issues in this week’s...more
Closely held businesses routinely use life insurance to fund buy-sell obligations when an owner dies. The logic is simple: the company or surviving owners need liquidity to effect redemptions or repurchases, and life...more