Almost two years since the National Security Act 2023 became law, on 1 July 2025 both tiers of the UK Government’s new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS), will finally ‘go live’. Despite our own partially successful…
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/ Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its proposed version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the Senate Bill). The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill on May 22, 2025 (the House Draft)…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Taxation
As part of our commitment to advancing innovation in legal services, we recently asked our network: What do you believe are the most critical enablers of innovation within a legal function? The results were both revealing and…
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/ Business Organizations, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
What does innovation in legal services mean to you? True innovation is about identifying the value we provide to clients and thinking creatively about how we provide that value in a different way that might be better for us and…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
A new Indonesian government regulation introduces a structured governance framework intended to strengthen online protection for children. This regulation applies to a broad range of electronic systems operators (ESOs),…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Australian Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety team help our clients achieve success across the full range of workplace issues. In truth, the legal and social environment has never been…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On 10 June 2025, the new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy came into force as part of a suite of privacy reforms passed last year, substantially enhancing privacy protections and signalling a material shift in…
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/ Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Ames v Ohio Dept. of Youth Services that plaintiffs in the majority group within a protected class have the same burden of proof at summary judgment to demonstrate…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
On June 10, 2025, the head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew Galeotti, declared in a speech that the DOJ would resume enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This announcement came…
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/ Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On June 4, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a “Concept Release” that will be of significant interest to our “foreign private issuer” (“FPI”) clients, their shareholders, and our investment banking…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
U.S. life carriers engaging in “asset intensive reinsurance transactions” should consider new requirements for reporting and actuarial testing of these arrangements being developed by the National Association of Insurance…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Insurance
A quick recap on reforms affecting reporting entities The Amended AML/CTF Act removed the concept of "designated business groups" and replaced this with "reporting group". The concept of "reporting group" means that, if relevant…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
A recent circular issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has created a pathway to listing closed-ended alternative asset funds in Hong Kong, generating interest among both local private market…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On 10 June 2025, ASIC announced two initiatives as part of a two-year trial designed to shorten the IPO process: ASIC will informally review pathfinder disclosure documents on a confidential basis two weeks prior to public…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The UPC has a Court of First Instance (divided into local, regional and central divisions) and a Court of Appeal (Luxembourg). Cases can commence in any one of these divisions according to the subject matter and the prescribed…
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/ Intellectual Property
