20 Dec, 2022 An Arrow Through Declaratory Relief? By David Knight What can a business do if it wants to launch a product on the market but a competitor with patent application rights keeps evergreening...
16 Dec, 2022 Third Time’s a Charm for EU-US Data Privacy Framework By Ian DiBernardo Morgan Jones Following President Biden’s Oct. 7, 2022 Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence, the European...
05 Dec, 2022 Looking Ahead: Asset Recovery and the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill By Joanna Curtis See Page 26 of the December issue of ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE for some thoughts on the asset recovery aspects of the new Economic Crime and...
02 Dec, 2022 Commerce Department Releases Preliminary Findings: Solar-Cell Manufacturers Circumvented US Tariffs By James Morrissey The Commerce Department released preliminary findings that four Chinese solar-cell manufacturers circumvented U.S. tariffs. However,...
17 Nov, 2022 Crypto Platforms in Crisis: Bankruptcy Considerations By Kenneth Aulet The crypto ecosystem is facing a full-blown financial crisis reminiscent of 2008. Numerous crypto companies have failed in the past few...
14 Nov, 2022 Working With and Against Experts in Business Valuation Disputes By Thomas McDonnell How do solicitors, barristers and expert witnesses best work together in business valuation disputes to get the best outcome for our...
08 Nov, 2022 Executive Order One Step Closer to EU-US Data Transfers By Ian DiBernardo Morgan Jones President Biden signed an Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence on Oct. 7, 2022, which aims to...
05 Nov, 2022 Trade Alert: Brazil By Louisa Watt Iden Asl BRAZIL The second round of voting in the Brazilian presidential elections took place on 30 October 2022. It has been reported that...
26 Oct, 2022 Startups and Smaller Companies Are on the Radar for Privacy Enforcement By Morgan Jones Matthew Richardson Despite many data privacy enforcement actions being launched against larger tech companies, the Federal Trade Commission recently took...
25 Oct, 2022 BRave New Energy: A Conversation With Fermata CEO Valeria Kogan By James Morrissey Did you know that food waste is a significant source of carbon emissions? Fermata and its CEO Valeria Kogan are providing farmers with...
25 Oct, 2022 NSIA – Building Momentum By Mark Dorff Tim Davison Tobias Plowman Recently, the U.K.’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) issued its first decisions prohibiting transactions...
06 Oct, 2022 Decoding DAOs Amid CFTC Suit By Matthew Richardson Last month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed suit against blockchain company bZeroX, its founders, and Ooki DAO, a...
13 Sep, 2022 The Energy Bill – Key Points for Hydrogen and CCUS Business By James Douglass Neil Foster Menelaos Karampetsos UPDATE: As foreshadowed in our earlier alert (below), Jacob Rees Mogg, the new secretary of state for business, energy and industrial...
07 Sep, 2022 Corporate Fraud: Red Flags in Company Finances By Joanna Curtis Robert Smith, capital markets correspondent at the Financial Times, spoke to the YFLA (Young Fraud Lawyers Association) last night about...
25 Aug, 2022 ‘Sir, You Have Committed Market Abuse’ By Ian Weinstein Menelaos Karampetsos Chloë Kealey The Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) has fined Sir Christopher Gent £80,000 for unlawfully disclosing inside information. In his...
14 Aug, 2022 Don't Expect a Quick Recovery in Financing for Startups By Brown Rudnick In 2021, investors pumped a record $330 billion into U.S. tech startups – twice as much as the previous year, which was itself twice the...