On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) reached a settlement with Key Holding, LLC (Key Holding) concerning its non-U.S. subsidiary’s violations of the Cuban Assets Control…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
Taking your retail brand to the next level and attracting an equity investment based on the value of your brand requires not only business acumen but strategies for brand protection. Protecting your trademarks by way of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Intellectual Property
On June 10, 2025, Governor Lamont signed Senate Bill No. 9 into law. In light of the passage of the bill, on July 8, 2025, the Connecticut Insurance Department (Department) issued Bulletin PC-93-25, addressed to “all companies…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance, Real Estate - Residential
On July 2, 2025, the Connecticut Insurance Department (Department) issued Bulletin PC-92-25 (Bulletin), addressed to “all companies licensed to write property and casualty insurance.” The Bulletin rescinds and replaces Bulletin…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
In this episode of Hiring to Firing, hosts Tracey Diamond and Emily Schifter discuss the challenges of integrating employees during and after mergers and acquisitions through the lens of the classic film Pretty Woman. Joined by…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
Last month, there were only a couple of legal developments in the area of independent contractor (IC) compliance and misclassification, but they were significant because two more industries — home improvement and legal services…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Keith Kautz will serve as the new attorney general (AG) of the state of Wyoming following his appointment by Governor Mark Gordon , effective July 7, 2025. Kautz has a long history of civil service in the state, having served as…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection, Elections & Politics
With volatile market conditions and recent FDA shakeups, biotech companies are increasingly focused on bolstering cash runways and accelerating R&D efforts. But fierce competition for financing has some biotechs turning to…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Recently, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in California issued a consent order against Coinme Inc., a company operating digital financial asset kiosks, commonly known as Bitcoin ATMs, across the…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 8, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a significant decision in the case of Custom Communications, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The panel vacated the FTC’s amended Negative…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
On June 20, the Supreme Court concluded that marketing denial orders (MDOs) issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be challenged not only by the applicants (typically, the manufacturer or importer of the products),…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Health
On Jan. 14, Patriot Bank, based in Stamford, Connecticut, entered into an agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to address and rectify several alleged unsafe or unsound practices and violations of law…
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/ Finance & Banking
In Part Two of this FAQ series, we continue to break down Virginia’s Senate Bill 754, Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, etc., reproductive or sexual health information (Act), which amends the Virginia Consumer…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Consignments may be governed by either common law or Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the latter of which requires the consignor to comply with various procedures in order to perfect its security interest in the…
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/ Bankruptcy, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
In the past two weeks, six federal permitting agencies — the U.S. Departments of Interior (USDOI), Agriculture (USDA), Energy (DOE), Commerce (DoC), Defense (DoD), and Transportation (USDOT) — withdrew most of their National…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
