8/18/2025 6:06:12 PM California Supreme Court Holds That Loss of Jury Trial Cannot Be Sole Reason to Deny Enforcement of Exclusive-Forum Provision By Jonathan Richman The California Supreme Court recently ruled that California courts should not refuse to enforce forum-selection provisions solely because...
8/18/2025 6:55:52 AM R&D Tax Relief: When Bad Advice Leads to Professional Negligence Claims By Matthew Sharp For many UK businesses, R&D tax relief has offered a welcome cash injection, designed to reward innovation, fund development, and...
8/12/2025 8:26:09 PM Ninth Circuit Upholds SEC’s “No Admit, No Deny” Rule for Settlements By Jonathan Richman The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently denied a petition challenging the SEC’s refusal to amend its rule that a...
6/12/2025 1:22:12 AM DOJ’s New FCPA Guidelines Focus On Corrupt Intent and Transnational Crime By Daniel Sachs Steven Tyrrell Stephen Best Angela Papalaskaris +1 more... Show less On June 10, 2025, United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued revised and hotly anticipated...
5/21/2025 8:19:59 PM NY Court of Appeals Applies Internal-Affairs Doctrine to Standing in Derivative Actions on Behalf of Foreign Corporations By Jonathan Richman The New York Court of Appeals confirmed that the internal-affairs doctrine, which generally applies the substantive law of a...
5/15/2025 8:37:21 PM DOJ Updates White-Collar Enforcement Priorities By Daniel Sachs Steven Tyrrell Stephen Best Angela Papalaskaris +1 more... Show less DOJ Updates White-Collar Crime Enforcement Priorities On May 12, 2025, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...
3/6/2025 8:47:16 PM Coinbase Investor Dismisses Class Action After Ninth Circuit Ruling Requiring Traceability for Securities Act Claims Arising From Direct Listings By Jonathan Richman A Coinbase investor voluntarily dismissed a putative class action against Coinbase arising from shares issued through a direct listing,...
3/4/2025 1:28:32 PM Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Securities Claims Against Decentralized Trading Platform's Owners and Investors By Daniel Sachs On Feb. 26, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part a decision dismissing securities...
11/6/2024 3:29:13 PM Nine Months for Large Corporates to Update Their Systems and Controls: UK Government Publishes Guidance on Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence By Paul Feldberg Martha Baselga Chloë Kealey Menelaos Karampetsos Daniel Sachs +2 more... Show less The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 created a new failure to prevent fraud offence in the U.K. under which...
9/27/2024 10:20:04 AM US Department of Justice Wants Data-Savvy Compliance Departments and Additional Protection for Whistleblowers By Paul Feldberg Daniel Sachs Martha Baselga In September 2024, the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced changes in how it evaluates corporate compliance programs. [1] Of...
9/25/2024 2:22:05 PM DOJ Wants Data-Savvy Compliance Departments By Daniel Sachs In a Sept. 23, 2024, speech, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri announced changes in how the U.S. Department...
4/27/2023 10:46:00 AM In Financier Worldwide Article, Associate Menelaos Karampetsos Examines UK and EU Sanctions on Russia By Menelaos Karampetsos Associate Menelaos Karampetsos authored an article for the May 2023 issue of Financier Worldwide Magazine entitled “U.K. and EU sanctions...