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...
9/12/2025 1:53:40 PM Novel Considerations in Licensing Deals with Chinese Biotechs By Kristen Riemenschneider Ya Ma Shannon O'Hara Jake Silvers Yichen Xing +2 more... Show less Significant Chinese investment in its biotechnology industry has resulted in a shift in the biopharma licensing market over the last five...
9/11/2025 7:03:58 PM BIOSECURE Act: 2025 Version By Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Kristen Riemenschneider Shannon O'Hara Madeline Cimino +2 more... Show less The BIOSECURE Act, first introduced in Congress last year, has now been reintroduced for inclusion in Senate’s draft of the annual...
9/10/2025 2:57:36 PM Chartering a New Path Toward Banking: How the Rise of Novel Charters is Reshaping the Regulatory Perimeter for Fintechs, Payments Companies, and Others By David Sewell Alison Hashmall Nariné Atamian Trends converging in recent months have the potential to reshape the operating environment for fintechs, digital asset and payments...
9/9/2025 1:31:09 AM New Executive Order Implements the United States–Japan Trade Agreement By Stephanie Brown Cripps Nabeel Yousef Noah Lipkowitz Alice Jeon +1 more... Show less On September 5, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Implementing the United States-Japan Agreement” (the “EO”). The...
9/8/2025 8:04:00 PM Strike Two Against Trump Tariffs: U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Ruling Against IEEPA-Based Tariffs, Which Remain in Place By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Tim Chen Noah Lipkowitz Andrew Bulovsky Alice Jeon +3 more... Show less On August 29, 2025, in a 7-4 en banc decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) affirmed a lower court...
9/5/2025 4:47:22 PM Sixth Circuit Reinforces Attorney-Client and Work-Product Protections for Internal Investigations By Timothy Harkness Christian Vandergeest Steven Fisher Eva Vivero Israa Saber +2 more... Show less The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision reaffirming key elements of attorney-client privilege and...
9/4/2025 2:31:59 PM Ninth Circuit Greenlights Broad Use of Discovery In Foreign Proceedings By Timothy Harkness Peter Linken Allison Beeman Litigants try to use 28 U.S.C. § 1782 applications to get tactical advantages in transnational litigation all the time. After all, the...
8/22/2025 7:33:23 PM Key Themes in Merger Enforcement: Early Termination and Remedies under the Second Trump Administration By Marin Boney Mary Lehner Bruce McCulloch Jennifer Mellott Meghan Rissmiller Jan Rybnicek Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Christine Wilson Kevin Yingling Sam Fulliton Emily Abbott Kate Applegate +9 more... Show less Antitrust enforcers in the second Trump administration have already shifted away from several hallmarks of Biden-era merger antitrust...
8/18/2025 5:22:16 PM Recent Developments Provide First Look at FCPA Enforcement Priorities Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Timothy Howard Allison Kowalski After a temporary “pause” in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and issuance of revised Guidelines for...
8/14/2025 7:13:20 PM Opening the 401(k) Gates: The Potential Promise and Perils of Alternative Investments in Retirement Plans By Timothy Clark Melissa Hodgman David Nicolardi Executive Summary On August 7, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order, “Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k)...
8/13/2025 3:12:03 PM False Claims Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Peter Linken Emmeline Chen Over halfway through the first year of President Trump’s second term, the Administration has employed a range of legal and regulatory...