A Conversation with Rajiv Gupta on Asia Restructurings
What Are the Drastic Ramifications of the New York State Anti-Money Laundering Actions and Penalty Enforcement?
On New Year’s Day 2021, Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA). As we reported last April, the AMLA 2020 included sweeping reforms aimed at strengthening protections against money laundering, terrorism...more
The Underlying Dispute The dispute giving rise to the Second Circuit's decision began with a trademark infringement suit filed by Nike in 2013 against several hundred Chinese retailers for selling counterfeit Nike products on...more
On August 6, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unsealed its partly redacted decision upholding a civil contempt order against three foreign banks that refused to comply with a subpoena from U.S. authorities to produce bank...more
On August 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia kept in place $50,000-per-day fines on three Chinese banks—whose identities are redacted—for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the Department of...more
“Rejected Transactions” Reporting: Additional Compliance Obligations for Financial Institutions; New Compliance Obligations Businesses, Nonprofits, Inividuals, and Foreign Entities Owned or Controlled by U.S. Persons - The...more
On March 21, 2018, the Chinese central bank and regulator of payment services operators (“PSOs“), the People’s Bank of China (the “PBOC“) circulated PBOC Announcement No.7 of 2018 (the “Announcement“) lifting the de facto but...more