From Permits to Penalties: A Deep Dive Into Coastal Development Law
Podcast - FTC to Focus on Deceptive AI Claims: Compliance Management Strategies
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
Workplace ICE Raids Are Surging—Here’s How Employers Can Prepare - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
FCPA Compliance Report: Recent DOJ Policy Announcements
Regulatory Rollback: Inside the CFPB’s FCRA Guidance Withdrawal — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Daily Compliance News for June 11, 2025. The A Bondi Too Far Edition
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
DOL Restructures: OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Compliance Needs are Alive and Well: FTC's Recent Enforcement Activity
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
Regulatory Rollback: Inside the CFPB's FCRA Guidance Withdrawal — FCRA Focus Podcast
Facial Recognition and Legal Boundaries: The Clearview AI Case Study — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Daily Compliance News: June 10, 2025, The Ruinous Burdens Edition
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 7, 2025
On Feb. 20, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the creation of the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit, which will replace the Enforcement Division’s previous Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit. Originally...more
On May 21, the CFPB published a notice in the Federal Register withdrawing its procedures that required state officials to notify the Bureau when taking action to enforce the CFPA. The direct final rule, effective July 21,...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a comprehensive set of actions to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination on April 28, 2025, with a focus on preventing PFAS from entering...more
Trump Administration actions - Trump orders DOJ to stop states from enforcing unconstitutional or preempted climate laws. In a sweeping Executive Order (EO) issued on April 8, President Donald Trump has ordered Attorney...more
In mid-February 2025, President Trump issued three executive actions (the orders) intended to improve the administration of the executive branch and enhance the accountability of Federal agencies. Among other things, the...more
On March 11, acting Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Caroline D. Pham offered insight into the regulator’s February 25, 2025 advisory in a keynote addressed delivered at Boca, the annual International...more
Just over a year ago, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found itself at the centre of strong industry and political feedback when it first published its controversial proposals to ‘name and shame’ firms that it had...more
During her keynote address at the Futures Industry Association’s International Futures Industry Conference, BOCA50, CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham announced a new effort to encourage market participants to resolve open...more
As we recently reported, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been chipping away at the CTA, including through a recent notice. Now, Treasury has dramatically changed the CTA landscape with respect to U.S....more
In a whirlwind series of announcements, the Treasury Department and FinCEN have suspended all Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting and enforcement for domestic entities indefinitely. On Feb. 27, FinCEN announced that...more
In yet another update to the ongoing saga of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the agency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury Department”) that enforces the...more
After months of back-and-forth regarding the status of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), the U.S. Department of Treasury has effectively ended the CTA’s reporting obligations for U.S. citizens and domestic reporting...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department announced it will not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens, domestic reporting companies, or beneficial owners of domestic reporting companies under the Corporate...more
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it will not issue any fines or penalties or otherwise take any enforcement actions based on any failure to file or update...more
On February 27, 2025, the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a release announcing that it intends to issue an interim final rule by March 21, 2025 that will extend the current deadlines to file or...more
On February 27, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that it will not impose fines, penalties, or other enforcement actions against companies for failing to file or update beneficial ownership...more
FinCEN has once again changed course on enforcement of the CTA. On February 27, 2025, FinCEN announced that it will not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against reporting companies based on a...more
On February 17, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted the last remaining nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) previously issued in Smith v. US...more
On February 18, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. US Department of the Treasury, No. 6:24-cv-336-JDK, entered an order staying (pausing) the nationwide preliminary injunction against...more
Texas Federal Court Reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., has lifted the “pause” on the Corporate...more
January is at least eight weeks – I’m certain of it. Now that it’s February we know who’s running the CFTC and its different Divisions, for the time being. Acting Chair Pham comes to her position with a long history of...more
1 January 2025 marked the entry into force of the obligation for Romanian established taxpayers that carry out taxable operations in Romania to report in the Romanian invoicing System the invoices issued in B2C transactions....more
On December 19, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) intended to “update and clarify” the regulations under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The proposed changes to...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Roxane Hicheri (counsel based in Paris) and Mark Steenson (counsel based in London) are our editors this month. They...more
“Whistleblower”. Rarely has a term provoked such lively and varied reactions in the political, economic and social spheres – and even in households! Traitors for some, heroes for others, these people, who were never...more