Oct 27, 2020 Freshfields team authors step-by-step approach to common privacy issues that arise in investigations in GIR’s newest data privacy publication By Peter Jaffe Jillian Simons US privacy law doesn’t come up often in US investigations—but that doesn’t mean you can ignore it. Well-known laws like HIPAA arise in...
Oct 19, 2020 New SEC order serves as a reminder for in-house legal teams about internal procedures during preliminary merger discussions By Ethan Klingsberg On October 15, 2020, the SEC announced a $20 million fine and cease-and-desist order based on allegations that an NYSE-listed company had...
Oct 13, 2020 Ninth Circuit securities ruling deepens split with Eleventh Circuit on corrective disclosures in shareholder lawsuits By Boris Feldman Doru Gavril Elise Lopez Drew Liming +1 more... Show less This article has been republished in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. On October 8, 2020, a new Ninth Circuit...
Oct 12, 2020 Can the Failing Firm Defense Save a Deal in the Covid Era? By Julie Elmer Meredith Mommers Covid-19 has had a staggering impact on the U.S. economy in just eight months. Businesses large and small are struggling to stay afloat,...
Oct 09, 2020 Practical insights into incorporating new human capital management disclosures into a company's annual reports on Form 10-K By Elizabeth Bieber Doru Gavril Lori Goodman Pamela Marcogliese Maj Vaseghi Sarah Ghulamhussain +3 more... Show less On August 26, 2020, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final amendments under Regulation S-K as part of a...
Oct 08, 2020 Is Antitrust Reform on the Horizon? The Implications of the House Committee’s “Big Tech” Report By Andrew Ewalt Jan Rybnicek Daphne Lin Antitrust has seized US policymakers’ attention like no other time in the last 40 years. The latest evidence of this newfound attention...
Oct 06, 2020 Changes to shareholder proposal eligibility rules: What companies can expect from the new rules By Elizabeth Bieber Andrea Basham Jack Liechtung Going into the 2022 annual meeting season, shareholder proposal eligibility criteria under Rule 14a-8 is going to change.[1] On September...