Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and the private markets industry has certainly responded to a period of intense fundraising turbulence with creativity and ingenuity. Capital raised for traditional co-mingled…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On May 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved an amendment to Section 102.01 of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Listed Company Manual allowing companies organized outside North America (i.e., outside the U.S.,…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched a consultation in April 2024 to explore whether the existing Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) framework – introduced for asset managers in November 2023 – should be…
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/ Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (“AI/ML”) risk environment is in flux. One reason is that regulators are shifting from AI safety to AI innovation approaches, as a recent DataPhiles post examined. Another is that…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The International Sustainability Standards Board has released an Exposure Draft proposing targeted amendments to greenhouse gas emissions disclosure requirements under the IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures standard. The…
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/ Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
Since their U.S. Senate confirmations, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary have focused significant attention on one of the administration’s key policy priorities: improving the safety of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
On March 7, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS,” “the agency”) disbanded the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (“CIPAC,” “the Council”), originally established in 2006 to facilitate communication…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
Many sponsors and fiduciaries of ERISA retirement plans had been hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Cunningham v. Cornell University (No. 23-1007) would articulate new pleading standards that would slow the recent…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Insurance
On April 2, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (Executive Order 142571) to implement “reciprocal tariffs” on United States trading partners (the “EO”). Although the Trump administration subsequently paused the…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
What’s ahead for the infrastructure market? Ropes & Gray lawyers gained insights from attending the Infralogic Investors Forum in New York, held on April 25. We heard from experts in the global infrastructure and energy…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Transportation
The replacement of the UK’s paper-based stamp duty (SD), and its electronic cousin stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT), with a unified and modernised single tax on securities transactions re-emerged this week as a Government priority…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law, Taxation
On 28 April, the UK Government produced draft legislation for consultation as the latest step in the reform of UK rules on transfer pricing, permanent establishments and diverted profits tax. From an asset management…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Taxation
On April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year (“FFY”) 2026 inpatient prospective payment system (“IPPS”) and long-term care hospital…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
On this second episode of Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab’s four-part Multidimensional Data Reversion podcast series, Shannon Capone Kirk, managing principal and global head of Ropes & Gray’s advanced e-discovery and AI strategy…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
In This Edition SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Developments In early March 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public…
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/ Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
