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Bracewell LLP

Lifting the Fog on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Enforcement and Compliance Trends to Watch in San Francisco

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As lawyers, corporate executives and federal law enforcement officials prepare to gather this week in San Francisco for the ABA’s 39th National Institute on White Collar Crime, we offer our takeaways from January’s Houston...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

ESAs report on Principal Adverse Impact disclosures

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The annual report of the European Supervisory Authorities (the “ESAs”) on the extent of voluntary disclosure of principal adverse impacts (“PAIs”) under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) was published on...more

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Understanding the U.S. Call to Action Strategy for Central America & What Companies Taking Part Need to Consider

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Under President Biden’s Administration, the U.S. Government has launched a strategy to address the root causes of migration in Central America. Two of the key components of this strategy are the fight against corruption and...more

Dechert LLP

Managing sanctions exposure from Multilateral Development Banks: the growing risks for private equity sponsors and asset managers

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In response to COVID-19, Multilateral Development Banks (“MDBs”)1  have pledged US$213.5 billion of financing for projects, in addition to the US$95 billion in new financing commitments pledged during 2019....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.26.2020 | Top Story: Inspire Brands In Talks to Acquire Dunkin for Deal Worth $8.8 Billion

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PE-backed Inspire Brands is in negotiations to take over Dunkin’ Brands Group, the parent of both Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins, in a deal valued at nearly $9 billion. Inspire includes Buffalo Wild Wings and Jimmy John’s among...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

ESG: The Building Blocks of a Sustainable and Resilient Business Strategy [Part 1 of 4]

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Before the global COVID-19 pandemic, the debate around environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as drivers for long-term shareholder value was underway in earnest. Those discussions have continued with even more...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

SEC Ramps Up COVID-19 Response

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As COVID-19 continues to claim lives and disrupt the global economy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has begun taking a number of actions to protect investors from COVID-19-related frauds...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Charitable Giving, Government Support and Concession Requests, and Anti-Corruption Compliance in the Time of the Coronavirus...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created hardships across the globe at unprecedented levels – with practically no region or industry unaffected. Governments at all levels across the globe, along with non-governmental and...more

Morgan Lewis

Protecting Your Investment: Insights For 2020

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Investors and investment managers around the globe are seeing increasing rules and regulations on how they can deploy their money, how they can advertise their services, and how they have to report to regulators. ...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Sgt. Peppers at 50: She’s Leaving Home and Barclays Bank

It has unquestionably been a difficult year for Barclays. Whether any of its former executives will face any jail time for their actions back in the 2008 financial crisis is an open question. As for current bank chief Staley,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

US China Trade War

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The October blog post will be broken up into two parts. This October 15th post will comment on the TPP Agreement signed today and well as President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the US and my impressions from Beijing, China...more

Perkins Coie

Trans-Pacific Partnership May Have Far-Reaching Consequences for U.S. Industry

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This week, the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries decided the final terms of what they report is a far-reaching agreement (Agreement or TPP Agreement). The 12 TPP countries are Australia, Brunei Darussalam,...more

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