12/12/2025 6:47:36 PM Baby it’s Cold Outside: Legislation Extends the Application of Section 16(a) to Foreign Private Issuers and Their Insiders By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman Shira Oyserman In a frosty start to the holiday season, Foreign Private Issuers (“FPIs”) and their insiders are poised to lose a decades-old exemption...
11/24/2025 10:14:30 PM Sanctioning a President, Not a Country: OFAC Designates Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Andrew Bulovsky Youssef Osman +1 more... Show less On October 24, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the President of Colombia,...
11/24/2025 9:52:26 PM 2026 SEC Exam Priorities and Implications for Investment Advisers and Investment Funds By Timothy Clark Melissa Hodgman Ivet Bell David Nicolardi +1 more... Show less On November 17, the SEC’s Division of Exams released its Exam Priorities for Fiscal Year 2026. See...
11/24/2025 5:12:13 PM A New Front on the War on Drugs: Implications of New FTO Designation By Timothy Harkness Nabeel Yousef Matthew Haggans Maria Slobodchikova Andrew Bulovsky Elischke de Villiers Omeed Askary +4 more... Show less Although the United States has historically designated organizations like Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram as foreign terrorist...
11/18/2025 12:46:34 AM SEC Staff Reshapes Shareholder Proposal Landscape with Narrowed No-Action Path By Erik Gerding Elizabeth Bieber The SEC Division of Corporation Finance issued a pivotal Staff Statement today that could reshape how public companies approach...
11/14/2025 2:28:28 PM Issuer Action Guide: SEC Post-Shutdown Guidance By Melissa Hodgman Erik Gerding Michael Levitt Narrative Overview On November 13, 2025, the SEC issued post-shutdown guidance to help issuers navigate filings that became effective by...
10/2/2025 4:10:00 PM Compliance in a Global AI Market: Examining the Overlaps Between California’s SB 53 and the EU AI Act By Beth George Brock Dahl Christine Chong Vera Ibes Joseph Mason Madeline Cimino +3 more... Show less On September 29, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 53, the “Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act”...
9/29/2025 3:35:54 PM The Ninth Anniversary of JASTA: Reflecting on Nearly a Decade of Secondary Liability in Anti-Terrorism Litigation By Timothy Harkness Peter Linken Multi-national companies doing business in high-risk jurisdictions need to put a date on their calendar: September 28. Why? That is the...
9/25/2025 2:32:07 PM Practical Compliance Takeaways for Private Fund Managers in Light of Recent SEC Enforcement Action Alleging Overcharging Fees and Conflicts of Interest By David Nicolardi Yuanmeng He Introduction Last month, the SEC settled an Enforcement action, TZP Associates, LLC, IA Rel. No 6908 (Aug. 15, 2025), that alleged an...
9/12/2025 8:06:46 PM Time to Comply: Pentagon Contractors Soon to Face Enhanced Cyber Security Requirements By Brock Dahl Beth George Andrew Gabel On September 10, 2025 the Department of Defense (DoD) issued its final rule (Rule) amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation...
7/16/2025 11:19:41 PM First out of the Gate(keeper): OFAC Issues $215 Million Statutory Maximum Penalty Against US Venture Capital Firm for Willful Russia Sanctions Violations By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Kimberly Zelnick Timothy Howard Noah Lipkowitz Adam Silow Graham Hardig Kristen Grennan +5 more... Show less On June 12, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a statutory maximum $215,988,868 civil...
6/26/2025 10:25:20 PM SEC Changes Course on Priorities, Unsurprisingly Continues Enforcing the FCPA, and Selects New Agency Leaders By Melissa Hodgman Erik Gerding Elizabeth Bieber Amella Viso Becky Sokolow +2 more... Show less Continuing its trend of reversing course from the last Administration, and with a nod to promoting innovation, the U.S. Securities and...