The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has been steadily making strides to progress rulemaking under the California Consumer...
A Fresh Take
Insights on M&A, litigation, and corporate governance in the US.
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California's new "Climate Accountability Package" is set to expedite the timeline for U.S., and possibly global, emissions and...
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Last week, amendments to the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) cybersecurity regulations took effect. Codified at 23...
Introduction Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against the...
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the SEC acted “arbitrarily and...
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What was old is new again: earnout litigation is once again on the rise. Earnout clauses are an increasingly common feature of M&A deals...
Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and several other U.S. small and mid-sized banks in March 2023, U.S. regulators have...
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Nasdaq’s board diversity rule, which encourages greater...
On October 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed a petition asking a federal court to compel Total Wine to comply with an FTC...
Freshfields’ Christine Lyon and Jackson Myers analyze California’s newly signed Delete Act and how it could affect state residents’...
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Recent data from the Freshfields whistleblowing survey suggests that managers in the United States across a range of seniorities and...
For decades, Foreign Private Issuers (“FPIs”) and their insiders have been exempt from the reporting requirements of Section 16 (“Section...