The Most Favored Nation (MFN) provision in a loan agreement is a lender protection mechanism that is typically seen in credit facilities permitting an uncommitted incremental facility. The MFN provision, a term originating from…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
The new guidance on U.S. enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has significantly altered the landscape for cross-border investigations. President Trump’s February 10, 2025 Executive Order paused FCPA…
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/ Conflict of Laws, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
On July 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 calendar year (CY 2026) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Proposed Rule). Among the many changes proposed, the Proposed Rule includes…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
The European Commission published its General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (Code) on July 10, 2025, after a long drafting process that was originally intended to conclude in May 2025. The development of the code was facilitated…
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/ Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Technology’s role in private credit is expanding, with digital tools, data management, and artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and reporting processes…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
Artificial intelligence, particularly its generative variant, is rapidly transitioning from a futuristic concept to a present-day disruptor across industries. While it feels like welcome progress when „the algorithm” develops a…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
A unanimous three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit has vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) final rule of amendments to the Negative Option Rule days before the rule’s scheduled July 14, 2025 effective date. The rule’s…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
In response to the significant worldwide issue of corruption, Thailand has implemented a comprehensive legal framework designed to promote transparency and accountability across both the public and private sectors…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
The Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation (AMR) has released a set of illustrative sample cases under the Compliance Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies to Prevent Commercial Bribery Risks (《医药企业防范商业贿赂风险合规指引》)…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
Corporate criminal responsibility in the UK is poised for further reform as the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 (CPB) advances through Parliament. Currently through the House of Commons, and now in the House of Lords, the proposed…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law
Several members of DLA Piper’s Private Credit team recently attended the Debtwire Private Credit Forum, which brought together industry participants for in-depth discussions concerning the current landscape and future trends in…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
As the Trump Administration considers what actions to take in response to its May 22, 2025 Make Our Children Healthy Again (MAHA) Assessment, state legislatures are taking action to regulate what they consider “ultra-processed…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
The EU is advancing toward its Digital Decade goal of digital transformation by 2030, which includes at least 75% of EU business using cloud-edge technologies for their activities. Meanwhile, one of the cornerstone regulations…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Science, Computers, & Technology
Purdue Pharma (Purdue) has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari challenging a recent Federal Circuit decision upholding the invalidation of several Purdue patents on grounds of obviousness…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The dispute over who invented CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR), a gene-editing technology awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been one of the most closely watched legal battles in the world of biotechnology. For more than a…
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