Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and case developments from the past month,...more
Foreign investments in Israel have skyrocketed in recent years. By the end of 2020, foreign residents’ direct investments in Israel exceeded USD 185 billion, nearly a 15% increase over 2019. Foreign investments offer...more
The U.S. government officially removed Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. from its blacklist, ending the Trump-era ban prohibiting Americans from investing in the company. In their joint filing in the U.S. District Court...more
Bad-faith trademark filings can pose a painful obstacle to brand owners’ attempts to register and enforce trademark rights in China. Traditionally, trademark owners have needed to file a broad range of defensive applications,...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 4 (February 20, 2020) - The United States continues to try to sideline China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from future telecommunications networks, even as some traditional allies defy...more
Fed Chair Powell, speaking at an economics conference in Denver yesterday, made news by indicating that the central bank would “once again begin expanding its portfolio of government-backed securities”—a shift in policy...more
The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese companies—mostly in the tech sector—over China’s “campaign targeting Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in the autonomous region of Xingjiang,” a move that’s drawn both...more