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Transposition of Credit Servicers Directive in Ireland – Overview

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On 29 December 2023, the Minister for Finance signed the European Union (Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers) Regulations 2023 (the "Regulations") into law, thereby transposing the Directive on credit servicers and credit...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

OFSI Issues Long-Awaited Guidance on Ownership and Control

The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has issued long-awaited further guidance on ownership and control of entities by sanctioned persons. The new guidance was issued in an updated version of OFSI’s...more

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Second Circuit: Madoff Ponzi Scheme Customers Did Not Receive Fictitious Profit Payments "For Value"

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In the latest chapter of more than a decade of litigation involving efforts to recover fictitious profits paid to certain customers of Bernard Madoff's defunct brokerage firm as part of the largest Ponzi scheme in history,...more

King & Spalding

What DOJ Really Cares About: What Do The Updates To DOJ'S Compliance Guidance Mean In Practice?

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On June 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released updated guidance entitled “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (“Updated Guidance”), which provides the DOJ Criminal Division’s views on what comprises...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Commonwealth Court Grants Over Four Years of Additional Back Pay to A Teacher, Overturning Pennsylvania Secretary of Education on...

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Vladimirsky v. School Dist. of Phila., 206 A. 3d 1224 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2019).  The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court overturned a finding of the Pennsylvania Department of Education that teacher did not exercise reasonable due...more

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Nevada Supreme Court Clarifies Application of the Anti-Speculation Doctrine to Water Permit Extension Requests

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In Nevada, water is a public resource, meaning no person or entity can hold ownership title, but at most can enjoy the right to beneficial use. A party who wishes to appropriate water must apply for a permit from the State...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Lack of Knowledge is No Defense: Seventh Circuit Strips Bank’s Lien on More than $300 Million in Assets

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The Seventh Circuit (which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) appears to have added a new and potentially conflicting standard in analyzing a third-party transferee’s “good faith” defense to a fraudulent transfer...more

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Lenders are Required to Investigate Suspicious Loan Transactions

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a lender is obligated to conduct a diligent investigation when it becomes aware of suspicious facts relating to the legitimacy of a loan transaction. In Sentinel...more

Baker Donelson

The New Paradigm in Vendor Management Under the CFPB

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This past July marked the fifth anniversary of the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a period marked by sweeping changes to the regulatory and administrative environment in which financial...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Can You Keep a Secret?

Most real estate deals begin with a letter of intent defining the principal terms of the deal, the only enforceable paragraph of which is an agreement to keep the transaction strictly confidential. Prior to the start of due...more

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Federal Court Says Employer Can Be Liable for Acts of Anonymous Harasser

As a major national company learned recently, employers cannot shirk their obligations to investigate employee complaints of a hostile work environment simply because the identity of the harasser is unknown. Failure to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Outrageous Opinions in Registration Statements

In Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, No. 13-435, the respondents fired back at the petitioners in a brief filed with the Supreme Court, posing a simple question: “Whether...more

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IRS Notice 2014-33 – IRS Grants Relief for Good-Faith Efforts Under FATCA

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On May 2, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2014-33 (the “Notice”) providing that calendar years 2014 and 2015 will be regarded as a transition period for purposes of IRS enforcement and administration...more

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