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

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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

Alston & Bird

The SEC Sues SolarWinds and Its CISO for Alleged Fraud and Disclosure Controls Failures

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Our Securities Litigation, Securities, and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy teams outline vital takeaways for public companies and their directors and officers in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent civil...more

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Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Potential Liability Based on MD&A in Annual Reports

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On September 29, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could significantly affect the scope of corporate liability under the securities laws. Lower courts disagree on whether the SEC-required “management’s discussion...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Canada’s Modern Slavery Bill Nears Final Approval: New Reporting Requirements Are Coming

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Canada’s proposed “modern slavery” legislation – the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (“New Act”) – is currently awaiting consideration by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign...more

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As SPACs’ Popularity Explodes, Liability Risks Rise As Well

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Special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”), it seems, are everywhere.  SPACs have been around for decades, but use of a SPAC to take a company public without a traditional initial public offering (“IPO”) has recently...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Liability Management in Uncertain Times

The potentially significant economic downturn in 2020 triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for companies in the energy sector, extremely low commodity prices, increases the likelihood that many companies may develop...more

White & Case LLP

2019 Half-year in review: M&A legal and market developments

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We set out in the attached Newsletter a number of interesting English court decisions and market developments which have taken place in the second half of 2019 and their impact on M&A transactions. This review looks at these...more

White and Williams LLP

Direct Listings: Capital Liquidity, Liability and D&O Insurance Coverage Considerations

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Direct listings have been a hot topic in the news lately, particularly in light of the recent submission of proposals to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) (and indications...more

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Belgian Code on Companies and Associations: A practical handbook on the new law

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The new Belgian Code on Companies and Associations enters into force on 1 May 2019. The Belgian Code on Companies and Associations (the "BCCA"), enacted by the Belgian parliament on 28 February 2019, repeals the existing...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

U.S. Firms Continue to Face Liability for Terrorist Attacks under the Antiterrorism Act

Last year, a group of U.S. military veterans and the relatives of troops killed in Iraq filed a lawsuit against several large international pharmaceuticals, accusing them of aiding and abetting terrorism by selling products...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Next Big Thing: Data Breach Securities Class Action Litigation

Shareholders may have found a new hook for data security lawsuits. Over the past year, plaintiffs have filed nine federal class action securities fraud lawsuits against public companies after data security incidents,...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Filed v. Furnished, What’s the Difference?

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When disclosing information in a filing with the SEC, it is important to know whether such disclosure and any related exhibits should be "filed" or "furnished". To non-lawyers, this may seem like semantics or another...more

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Look for an increase in shareholders’ suits in 2016

A new study released by NYSE Governance Services and security firm Veracode, “Cybersecurity and Corporate Liability: The Board’s View,” is a must read for directors and officers. Veracode was quite accommodating when I asked...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

I-9 Forms, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, EB-5 Visas, and Reform Q&A - This month in Immigration

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I-9 Audits - A fine for a couple of I-9 violations pales in comparison to the $34 million settlement paid by Infosys in 2012 for repeated I-9 violations and omissions discovered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement...more

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