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The Woody Report - Twitter v. Elon Musk
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Everything Compliance - The Elon Etc Edition
Compliance Into The Weeds - Musk Pulls U-Turn on Twitter Board
FCPA Compliance Report - Karen Woody on Elon Musk Attack on SEC Consent Decree
Compliance Into The Weeds - Elon Musk and Tesla Redux
This Week in FCPA-Episode 252 – the Musk and Bitcoin edition
Compliance into the Weeds-Elon Musk, Cryptocurrency and the SEC
Top Five Corporate Scandals of 2018: Episode IV-Tesla and its Elon Problem
This Week in FCPA-Episode 122, the Kavanaugh, Rosenstein and 100+ Wins edition
Inflation slowed from a month earlier but still topped 8% in the U.S., according to latest CPI figures, an “uncomfortably rapid pace.” Though overall inflation was down, core inflation—“which excludes costs for groceries and...more
On April 19, 2022, Judge James R. Knepp II of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio approved consent judgments against biotechnology firm Rising Biosciences, Inc. and its CEO Arthur Hall for violations of...more
It was a slog, to be sure, but Congress finally made President Biden’s infrastructure plan a reality late Friday, guaranteeing nearly “$600 billion in new federal aid to improve highways, bridges, dams, public transit, rail,...more
Thursday’s weekly unemployment report managed to pull double duty—marking another decrease in the still-high figures (roughly 709k new jobless claims last week, about 47k fewer than the week before) that suggests some cause...more
Boeing needs another aircraft problem like a hole in the head, but that’s just what it got after a right-engine explosion on one of its 777-200 models that had just left Denver en route to Hawaii. ...more
Friday’s “anemic” jobs report (just 49,000 jobs added in January, and precious few of those in the private sector) “underscored the pandemic’s brutal damage to the job market” and likely made President Biden’s sale of his...more
Bay area business software powerhouse Salesforce is “in advanced talks to buy Slack Technologies,” the “buzzy newcomer on a mission to replace office email.” A deal could be announced as early as tomorrow, and it would mark...more
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is “poised to become the first female Treasury secretary and one of few people to ever have wielded economic power from the White House, the Federal Reserve and the president’s cabinet.” If...more
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The Treasury Department announced on Monday that the U.S. budget deficit hit a new record in June–$864 billion—“as the federal government continued pumping money into the economy to prop up workers and businesses affected by...more
Better Buildings Initiative partners save $11B In energy costs - Bullet Facility Executive – June 9 - The more than 950 public and private sector organizations participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Better...more
The U.S. market is improving, with employers adding 2.5 million jobs. For some perspective, “[t]he economy shed 22.1 million jobs combined in March and April.” So, we have a ways to go before we’ve fully recovered. ...more
The path for extradition of Huawei exec Meng Wanzhou is much clearer now that a Canadian court has ruled that “the conduct she is accused of in the United States, if proved, also constitutes a crime in Canada.” That...more
The latest from Chair Powell and the Fed from his Peterson Institute appearance this week, including the stark warning that the U.S. was “experiencing an economic hit ‘without modern precedent’” that could “permanently damage...more
Industry Expert Insights - We reached out to one of our Lex Mundi partners and a well-known expert in the United Arab Emirates in the energy and legal industries to get his thoughts on the current energy climate. ...more
For the first time, the Federal Reserve system will begin buying corporate bonds—all part of the central bank’s efforts to “support the economy and financial system in the coronavirus crisis.” The NY Fed will kick things off...more
Tesla sues to reopen its California factory; Elon threatens to move the company out of state. The company asked a federal judge to reopen the factory, arguing that the “local government’s insistence that it remain closed . ....more
J.Crew filed for bankruptcy protection; the company’s lenders have agreed to “convert $1.65 billion . . . into equity.” Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and J.C. Penney are also on the bankruptcy path, already entering talks with...more
Newly released minutes from the Fed’s January meeting show central bankers preoccupied with global risks, including the still-growing economic impact of the coronavirus, while still taking a wait-and-see approach to any...more