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Time to get to know your supply chain: EU adopts Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

White & Case LLP on 7/5/2024

After a two-and-half-year legislative journey, the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CSDDD"), has been formally adopted, and was published in the EU Official Journal on 5 July 2024.1 It will come into...more

ESG Insights: 10 Things That Should Be Top of Mind 2024

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/17/2024

Amid new regulations, increased enforcement and litigation, and higher stakeholder scrutiny, companies will need to adopt an integrated and nuanced approach to ESG. In some ways, 2023 was a challenging year for ESG. This...more

FCPA Enforcement Update: Commodities Trader Agrees to Almost $100 Million Fine

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 12/21/2023

On December 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Freepoint Commodities LLC, a Connecticut-based commodities trader, had agreed to a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) to resolve a DOJ investigation...more

New Crypto Products Launch; CBDC and NFT Reports Published; Network Protocol/Governance Updates Announced; Crypto Enforcement...

BakerHostetler on 6/26/2023

New Crypto Products Launch in Exchanges, Wallets, and Custody - A recent press release announced the launch of EDX Markets, a “first-of-its-kind digital asset marketplace designed to enable safe and compliant trading of...more

Investment Management Update - February 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/1/2023

In this issue, we cover regulatory developments impacting the investment management sector, including updates on closed-end fund activism and various new and revised SEC rules....more

FCPA Enforcement Update: Two Big Settlements to End the Year

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 12/22/2022

In the past several years there has been a significant decrease in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement efforts. Reports suggest that corporate criminal cases have decreased by roughly 50% since 2012. FCPA...more

Preparation for 2021 Fiscal Year-End SEC Filings and 2022 Annual Shareholder Meetings

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 1/19/2022

As public companies embark on the year-end reporting process, they will need to consider, and in some cases take steps to address, a number of significant developments and issues. As in past years, Mintz has prepared a...more

Episode 155 -- Tom Fox and Michael Volkov Discuss the Blue Bell Creameries Enforcement Action

The Volkov Law Group on 8/9/2020

On May 1, 2020, Blue Bell pleaded guilty to shipping contaminated ice cream linked to a 2015 listeria outbreak and agreed to pay a fine of $19.5 million ($17.4 million criminal fine and $2.1 million to settle civil false...more

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Alert - Global Anti-Bribery Year-in-Review: 2019 Developments and Predictions

WilmerHale on 1/30/2020

Enforcement activity reached new heights in 2019. The year saw the two largest corporate resolutions in the history of the FCPA, corporate penalties paid to US enforcement agencies topped last year’s record levels, and...more

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