California Employment News: Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
Podcast: California Employment News - The Basics of Pay Exemptions
What Happens When the California Privacy Rights Act Employment Data Exemption Expires?
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
State Law Privacy Video Series | Employee Exemptions
Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
#WorkforceWednesday: New AB5 Exemptions, EEOC COVID-19 Updates, Joint-Employer Rule Partially Struck Down - Employment Law This Week®
When Dr. Strangelove Met Jimmy Hoffa
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Service Providers and Sale of Data Under the CCPA
[WEBINAR] Exploring the CPRA’s Investigatory Privilege
Ropes & Gray’s PEP Talk: General Solicitation by Private Equity Funds Under 506(c)
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Employment Law This Week: Break Pay, Misclassification of Franchisees, California Computer Professional Exemption, Non-Compete Payment
Employment Law This Week: Defend Trade Secrets Act, Final Overtime Rule, Leave for Disabled Workers, OT Exemption Case
On 29 December, 2023, Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2023 on the Regulation of Competition (the New Law) was issued, replacing Federal Decree-Law No. 4 of 2012 (the Old Law) and introducing a new merger control regime,...more
In the client alert dated January 27, 2023, we described a recently enacted federal exemption (the “Exemption”) from SEC registration for Merger and Acquisition Brokers which meet the qualifications of amended Section 15(b)...more
On March 29, 2023, a new exemption from SEC registration for brokers providing services in mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) transactions officially went into effect. The exemption, outlined in Section 501 of the Consolidated...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed H.R.2617, codifying a federal exemption from SEC registration for small business M&A brokers as new Exchange Act Section 15(b)(13). Limitations exist, as does the requirement to...more
The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the “Agencies”) recently proposed two changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) rules that, if implemented, will materially impact private...more
On January 28, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual adjustment of the thresholds that trigger premerger reporting obligations (and the mandatory waiting period) under the Hart-Scott Rodino (HSR) Act,...more
Much of the attention on the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2018-19 term has concerned its composition or its handling of cases involving some of the signature initiatives of President Donald Trump’s administration. Less noticed...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted on December 19, 2018 to propose Rule 12d1-4 (proposed rule) and related amendments to the regulatory framework governing funds that invest in other funds (“fund of funds”...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a consultation paper on its draft technical advice to the European Commission on the minimum information content of documents provided for the purpose of describing...more
On March 14, 2018, the U.S. Senate approved the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would repeal or modify certain provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and eliminate or ease a...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), conducts seven (7) mandatory surveys to collect information on direct investment. These seven surveys consist of an initial survey for any new in-bound...more
Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act, parties to transactions meeting certain size thresholds are required to notify the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and to observe a...more
A recent interpretation by the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) of the beneficial ownership reporting rules under the Securities Exchange Act and the recent settlement of a lawsuit by the U.S....more
On July 12, 2016, the US Department of Justice announced a record $11 million fine against an activist investment firm for improperly claiming an exemption from Hart-Scott-Rodino’s notification and waiting period provisions...more
Where is the line drawn between acquisitions of securities made “solely for the purpose of investment” on one hand, and influencing control, thereby requiring regulatory approval, on the other hand? That is the central...more
Generally speaking, stock purchases which will cause an investor to hold more than $76.3 million of the target’s voting securities may require a pre-closing notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“H-S-R”) Act. But there...more
On August 5, 2015, the SEC adopted a final rule to implement Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, often referred to as the pay-ratio provision. The pay-ratio provision mandates...more
The new law, Assembly Bill 359, will require that, upon a “change in control” of a “grocery establishment,” the seller must prepare a list of “specified eligible grocery workers” for a successor grocery employer, which would...more
FTC’s reversal will result in more Hart-Scott-Rodino filings for companies in the pipeline, cell tower and billboard industries. The Federal Trade Commission’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) has significantly...more
On July 20, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released revisions to its interpretation of the rule, 16 C.F.R. §802.5, that exempts certain acquisitions of “investment rental property assets” from reportability under...more
On February 16, 2015, the Texas State Securities Board voted to formally adopt their proposed Rule 139.27, which provides an exemption from dealer registration for intermediaries providing services solely in connection with...more