The 2025 BIS Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy wrapped up last week. Here are three main takeaways:
1. China is the Priority: The top three U.S. export controls and enforcement priorities for the new…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
This is the final in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year.
Throughout 2024, enforcement of international trade laws continued to gather pace…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
This is the fifth in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
On February 5, 2025, on her first day in office, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued fourteen memos outlining new policies for the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in a broad range of enforcement arenas. Among these Day 1…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Government Contracting
On February 5, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued fourteen memos outlining new policies for the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”). Among them is a memorandum entitled “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
On January 8, 2025, Governor Maura Healey signed House Bill 5159 into law, toughening the rules and increasing the risks for private equity (PE) companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and management services…
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/ Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Health
This is the third in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Education Law, Government Contracting
This is the fifth in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several…
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/ Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Health
This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several weeks…
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/ Business Organizations, Criminal Law, Labor & Employment Law, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
This is the second in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several weeks…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Government Contracting
Courts continue to reject aggressive Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) allegations. Most recently, on January 6, 2025, Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a qui tam action against…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Health
There was a noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) settlement made public yesterday out of the Eastern District of California involving Oroville Hospital. The government accused the Hospital of submitting false claims to Medicare and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Health
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to take office, businesses and investors can expect significant shifts in the enforcement priorities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On September 30, 2024, Siemens Energy Inc. (“Siemens Energy”)—a U.S.-based subsidiary of German manufacturing conglomerate Siemens Energy AG—pled guilty to federal criminal charges relating to the misappropriation of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Business Torts
On September 30, 2024, in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC, Judge Kathryn Mizelle in the Middle District of Florida dismissed a qui tam action under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) on the basis that the FCA’s…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
