Everything Compliance: Episode 146, The Holiday Season Edition
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How Might the Trump Administration Transform FDA Enforcement Activities?
DOGE Part 2: What will it do?
False Claims Act Insights - Swamp Things: A Post-Election Look at DOJ’s False Claims Act Enforcement, Part I
DOGE: What exactly is it and how will it work?
Insights on the Trump Administration's Agriculture and Food Policy Priorities
What Financial Services Companies Need to Know in a Second Trump Administration — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Podcast - Defense Dynamics: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape for the National Security Sector, Part 2
The Labor Law Insider - Elections Have Consequences: Labor Law Changes Anticipated Under Trump Administration, Part II
The Congressional Review Act – A Critical Tool for the New Administration
AI Post-Election – Initial Government Insights
Employment Law Now VIII-155 - The Trump 2.0 Impact on Labor and Employment Law
#WorkforceWednesday®: Biden’s Final Labor Moves - Employment Law This Week®
Health Policy Update: Impact of the 2024 U.S. Elections – Diagnosing Health Care
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: The Trump Administration’s Expected Impact on Enforcement and Compliance
The Labor Law Insider - Elections Have Consequences: Labor Law Changes Anticipated Under Trump Administration, Part I
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 21: The 2024 U.S. Election’s Impact on ESG Regulations
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Everything Compliance: Episode 145, 8 Years Later: the Second Trump Administration
Election Roundup: How a Trump Administration Could Shape the Oil and Gas Landscape
M&A practitioners anticipate a ‘Trump bump’ - The scale of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election – and the fact the Republicans now have full control of Congress – has been greeted with optimism by U.S....more
Welcome to the latest edition of M&A Insights, where we bring together partners from across the A&O Shearman network to explore the themes shaping global dealmaking. The election of Donald Trump as President is expected to...more
In our biannual M&A trends report we explore the possible impact of the new U.S. administration on dealmaking, the dynamics of transatlantic M&A, private equity exits, and Mario Draghi’s proposals to reshape the European...more
In the latest episode of Sheppard Mullin’s French Insider, a monthly podcast dedicated to guiding French investors and companies through the complexities of investing and operating in the United States, Sheppard Mullin’s...more
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to take office, businesses and investors can expect significant shifts in the enforcement priorities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures...more
1. Biden Administration Trade Posture- The Biden administration is slowly and steadily reviewing the decisions of the Trump administration. So far, the administration has struck a deal with the EU to end the 17-year-old...more
On December 28, 2020, the Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published awaited guidance on the implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13959, “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from...more
On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies," which will prohibit U.S. persons from participating...more
On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies (the “Investment EO” or the “EO”).1 The Investment EO may...more
On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 139591 (“the Order”) that will shortly bar any U.S. person from “any transaction in publicly traded securities, or any securities that are derivative of, or are...more
On November 12, 2020, President Trump issued an executive order (the "Order") prohibiting United States persons from investing in publicly traded securities of any person designated by the Secretary of Defense or the...more
In his last days, President Trump takes a swipe against companies identified by the Department of Defense (DoD) as Communist Chinese military companies by prohibiting US persons from investments. On November 12, 2020,...more
On Thursday, October 15, 2020, the White House released a national strategy to ensure that the United States remains a global leader in developing critical and emerging technologies (C&ET). The document lays out high-level...more
The reach and authority of the U.S. government over what it considers to be national security concerns is broad, increasing and often not subject to judicial appeal. In response to mounting threats to the personal, economic...more
The Takeaway: Severe restrictions on ByteDance’s Sale of TikTok should be a warning to media and tech companies with foreign ownership, particularly Chinese investment, to know your risks and mitigate them before the...more
On August 6, 2020, President Trump issued two executive orders banning widely used Chinese social media services TikTok and WeChat. Citing national security concerns due to the applications’ abilities to automatically capture...more
Since the beginning of 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has issued numerous regulations to implement fully the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) on behalf of the Committee on Foreign...more
Heightened U.S. national security concerns and trade tensions with China have resulted in new and expanded U.S. regulations that have created barriers for Chinese buyers seeking to acquire assets in the U.S. A number of years...more
Representative Jim Banks introduced a bill on 5 May 2020 to “place temporary restrictions on acquisitions [of U.S. companies] by the People’s Republic of China. . .” during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...more
Recent developments have positioned the Executive Branch to exert greater influence over the U.S. telecommunications sector. On April 4, 2020, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order creating a new process for...more
On April 4, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) establishing the ‘Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector’ (the Committee). The Committee...more
It has been an active last week in the world of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). In addition to CFIUS’s publication of proposed regulations that would impose filing fees for parties’...more
With strengthened legislative mandates and significant regulatory reform in place, the U.S. government’s national security focus on protecting sensitive technology and data continues to gather steam. Although exactly what...more
On March 6, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) instructing the Chinese company Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shiji”) to divest its acquisition of StayNTouch, Inc., a U.S.-based software...more
The regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), which significantly expanded the jurisdiction and authorities of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...more