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Ripple Effects Of SEC Adjudication Ruling May Be Momentous

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Suppose that your nemesis has a legal beef with you, and you learn that the law allows him to appoint one of his employees to judge the case. Shocked? You should be. Yet federal agency adjudication works the same way. How...more

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Midyear observations on the board agenda - Based on insights from the 2024 Board Leadership Conference

Approaching midyear, business leaders are bullish on growth and the opportunities ahead. At the same time, the macro forces of GenAI, climate change, a multipolar geopolitical landscape and the erosion of trust and healthy...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 3, April 2024

Using AI to Build Cyber Resilience for Critical Infrastructure - "Cyber resilience serves as a literal survival strategy, offering a framework to detect threats, understand attacks, recover swiftly, and adapt to...more

Clark Hill PLC

The Learned Concierge - April 2024, Vol. 7

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The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries....more

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The Practical NLRB Advisor: Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 edition of the Advisor is a compilation of good and bad news for employers. On the good news side, we discuss several current challenges to administrative agency authority in general, and the National Labor...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Public Company Update: Corporate America Beware: Labor Unions, Social Activists, and Universal Proxy Cards

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On November 21, 2023, a coalition of labor unions led by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), announced that it has nominated three director candidates for election to the Board of Directors of Starbucks at the...more

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Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2022

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As the global economy faces the third year of the pandemic, manufacturers are no longer focused on figuring out when things will return to “normal.” Instead, they are applying lessons learned from the past few years to become...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Employees' Input On ESG May Reduce Risks Of Unionization

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Social media is a relatively new character in the classic tale of a unionizing workforce. Newer still is the impact that environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors have on that same workforce. Originally...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Broadcom Weighing $60B Bid for Hybrid Cloud Co. VMWare

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Broadcom is in the throes of negotiations that would see it pay nearly $60 billion for VMWare Inc. in “what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year.” News of the potential deal by Broadcom, “a semiconductor...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.15.2021 - Board Dispute Over Bank-merger Rules Goes Public at FDIC

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Despite an outwardly polite virtual meeting of FDIC board members this week, a controversy is roiling just beneath the surface, with several board members questioning whether FDIC Chair Jelena McWilliams—a holdover from the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.10.2021 - Buffalo Workers Unionize First Company-Owned Starbucks

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Workers at a Buffalo, NY-based Starbucks location have voted to unionize, the first ever union to form at one of Sbux’s “nearly 9,000 company-owned stores.” Though but one, the victory “represents a challenge to the labor...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.31.2021 | Top Story: China Clamps Down on Gaming for Kids and Teens

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Forget Big Brother and meet Big Parent, as Beijing released new strict limits “on how long minors can play online video games” on Monday. The rules, which bar kids and teens from online gaming on school days and limit them to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.19.2021 | Top Story: Bitcoin Plummets In Correction Following Coinbase’s Public Debut

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Because volatility’s the name of the game whenever we’re talking cryptos, it’s hard to be too shocked by the news that last week’s banner Coinbase public market debut gave way to a digital currency walkback this weekend that...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.12.2021 | Top Story: Chinese Regulators Hit Alibaba With $2.8B Antitrust Fine

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Chinese antitrust officials hit Alibaba with a “record” $2.8 billion fine over the weekend—the “biggest move yet in the government’s campaign to tighten its supervision of Big Tech.” ...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - March 2021 #2

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Welcome back to another week in the Spotlight. It is truly remarkable to think that it has (already? only?) been one year since the World Health Organization’s declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, shuttering sports arenas,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.3.2021 | Top Story: Rare Merck-J&J Partnership to Boost U.S. Vaccine Production

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In a move we hinted at here recently, drug giant Merck is partnering with rival Johnson & Johnson to help produce production of J&J’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine. This unprecedented “Coke & Pepsi of the pharma world”...more

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Two Stones, One Bird: SEC’s Double Whammy Against Advisory Firm

In a pair of settlements announced on July 28, 2020, the SEC charged VALIC Financial Advisors (the “Firm”) with two separate sets of violations that allowed the Firm to obtain millions of dollars in fees without providing...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Cross-Border Investigations Update - December 2016"

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update looks at Brexit’s impact on corporate crime and investigations, the U.S. DOJ’s increased use of forfeiture actions with international implications, current...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

LATAM/LAN FCPA Enforcement Action, Part I-Some Questions

What is the cost of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violation? One subset of that question is what is the cost of not cooperating and not remediating during the pendency of such investigations? Those were two of the...more

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The SEC’s New “Pay Ratio Disclosure” Rule and What It Means for Your Company

In August of 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued the Pay Ratio Disclosure Final Rule under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule requires a public company to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Executive Labor Summary - April/May 2015

NLRB “quickie election” rule takes effect - On April 6, President Obama vetoed a joint resolution of Congress that sought to block the “quickie election” rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - September 2014

In This Issue: - SEC Pays First Whistleblower Award to Audit and Compliance Professional - Supreme Court Allows Affordable Care Act Contraceptives Religious Exemption - EEOC Adopts New Pregnancy...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review - June 3, 2013

In This Issue: CFPB Final Rule Amendments to Ability to Repay and QM Rule; Extension of Loan Modification Programs; Freddie Mac $1 Billion Performing Modified Loan Securitization; FinCEN Guidance on Virtual Currency...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Around the Virtual World - December 17, 2012

A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. In This Issue: - Union Facebook Page Not Picket Line Extension: NLRB Judge - Parody New York Times Twitter...more

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