12/28/2019 12:00:00 AM Alleged Janitor Espionage Fails to Show Hard Facts Necessary for OCI By Kenneth Weckstein How many times in movies, books, or television have we seen the scenario where the bad guy (or good guy) has to gain access to a top...
12/6/2019 3:53:00 PM Trade Alert: Australia By Iden Asl AUSTRALIA Australia's four biggest banks - Westpac, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia - hold AUD...
11/18/2019 12:12:00 PM Uncovering Fraud: First Response By Jane Colston Partner Jane Colston published a special report featured in the December 2019 issue of Financier Worldwide Magazine. "Crisis hits. One...
10/28/2019 3:48:00 PM Alert: First Successful Removal from the US Treasury’s “Kremlin List” of Russian Oligarchs By Neill Shrimpton Elena Sabinina Rey On 11 September 2019 the US Treasury issued a letter to Dr Valentin Gaponstev, one of the individuals listed on its so-called “Kremlin...
10/3/2019 2:48:00 PM Alert: Brown Rudnick’s M&A Litigation Trial Victory Highlights the Difficulty of Shifting the Costs of Post-Closing Business Decisions onto the Seller By Mark Baldwin Dylan Kletter Anthony Boccamazzo In a recent case captioned Project Boat Holdings, LLC v. Bass Pro Group, LLC, Brown Rudnick’s M&A litigation team obtained a trial...
9/27/2019 10:44:00 AM Commercial Fraud Litigation – London Pow-wow, June 2019 By Jane Colston Jessica Lee Commercial fraud is a continuing global menace costing hundreds of billions every year. Crimes such as money laundering, asset...
9/24/2019 2:47:00 PM Client Alert: Department of Labor Announces More Stringent Test for Exemption from Overtime Pay By Shlomo Katz The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that non-exempt or “overtime-eligible” employees be paid one and one-half times...
9/14/2019 12:00:00 AM Being a Not for Profit Company Does Not Avoid Affiliation for Size Purposes By Kenneth Weckstein Size protests stemming from corporate affiliation between subsidiaries, sister companies, and owners are common. Less common are size...
9/2/2019 2:46:00 PM Trade Alert: Greece By Iden Asl GREECE Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on 27 August 2019 that "from today, capital controls are a thing of the past"....
8/1/2019 2:45:00 PM Trade Alert: Czech Republic By Iden Asl CZECH REPUBLIC Andrej Babiš’ government survived a second no confidence vote on 27 June 2019, following an initial call for a vote of no...
7/8/2019 11:22:00 AM INSOL International: The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology in Global Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practices By Jane Colston 1. Introduction and backgroundThe topic of technology / artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential use has actively been on people’s...
7/2/2019 2:44:00 PM Brown Rudnick CIS Briefing, Edition No. 2 – July 2019 By Neill Shrimpton Elena Sabinina Rey Tatneft ordered to pay security for costs due to real risk of substantial obstacles to costs enforcement in Russia In a recent High Court...