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October 31, 2013
On October 24, 2013, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (together, the "federal banking agencies") released a notice of proposed rulemaking implementing quantitative liquidity requirements for large, internationally active banking organizations and their consolidated depository institution subsidiaries (the LCR).
October 28, 2013
This is the latest update of significant developments relating to qui tam, securities, and other lawsuits and investigations involving schools, especially private-sector schools.
October 24, 2013
Century City partner Ari Lanin and Los Angeles associate Benyamin Ross are the authors of “Equity Repurchase Provisions, Good Faith and Fiduciary Duties” [PDF] published in the October 23, 2013 issue of the Delaware Business Court Insider.
October 23, 2013
Los Angeles partner Michael Farhang and associate Aaron Bloom are co-authors of "Financial Due Diligence and the Specter of Fraud in the Private M&A Context" [PDF] published in the October 21, 2013 issue of Bloomberg/BNA’s Securities Law Daily Bulletin.
October 21, 2013
Dallas partner Robert Little and associate Jeff Henderson are the authors of “Guidance for Boards of Public Company M&A Targets” [PDF] published by Corporate Counsel on October 18, 2013.
October 18, 2013
On October 15, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to address whether the United States Environmental Protection Agency permissibly determined that its regulation of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from new motor vehicles under Title II of the Clean Air Act triggered permitting requirements under the Act for stationary sources that emit GHGs.
October 16, 2013
Orange County associate Krista deBoer is the author of “Doctrine Of Consent Will Blossom Again In Calif.” [PDF] published by Law360 at www.law360.com on October 4, 2013.
October 4, 2013
Dallas partner Sean Royall, Of Counsel Ashley Johnson and associate Jason McKenney are the authors of "Antitrust Scrutiny of Pharmaceutical Product Hopping" [PDF] originally published in Antitrust, Vol.
October 1, 2013
San Francisco Associate Joseph Tartakovsky is the author of "Firearm Preemption Laws and What They Mean for Cities" [PDF] published in the September/October 2013 issue of Municipal Lawyer.
October 1, 2013
San Francisco partner Marc Fagel and associate Leslie Wulff are the authors of "Public Companies: Back in the SEC Hot Seat?" [PDF] published in the September 2013 issue of Wall Street Lawyer.
September 30, 2013
London partner Wayne McArdle and associate Gareth Jones are the authors of "Prest v Petrodel Resources and VTB Capital v Nutritek: a Robust Corporate Veil" [PDF] published in the September 2013 issue of Business Law International.
September 27, 2013
Background Article 13 of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (2011/61/EU) (the "Directive") imposes restrictions on the amount and the form of remuneration that an alternative investment fund manager ("AIFM"), within the scope of the Directive, can pay to its staff.
September 26, 2013
What should a company do when an entity on the E.U.'s sanctions lists for Iran successfully challenges its inclusion on that list, but remains on the U.S.'s OFAC List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the "SDN List")?
September 23, 2013
Washington, D.C. associate Colin C. Richard is the author of “Regulation E’s Remittance Definition Clarified: Bringing Mobile Payments Into the Third-Party Payment Services Exclusion” [PDF] published in the September 2013 issue of Yale Law & Policy Review Inter Alia.
September 23, 2013
Washington, D.C. partner Howard Hogan is the author of "Don’t Underestimate The Harm Caused By Counterfeiters" [PDF] published by Law360 at www.law360.com on September 19, 2013.
September 19, 2013
Los Angeles partner Jeffrey Dintzer and associate Matthew Wickersham are the authors of "Last Minute CEQA Bill Offers Quick Fixes to Procedural Rules" [PDF] published in the September 17, 2013 issue of the Daily Journal.
September 17, 2013
Orange County partner Jim Moloney and associate Nicole Behesnilian are the authors of "Lock-Ups: When Can They Give Rise to “Affiliate” Status & Potentially Implicate Rule 13e-3?" [PDF] published in the September-October 2013 issue of Deal Lawyers.
September 13, 2013
On September 6, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had brought -- and settled -- a cease-and-desist case under Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD), which requires that public companies broadly disclose material nonpublic information to the public that their covered officers and employees intentionally or inadvertently disclose to market professionals and stockholders.
September 12, 2013
Century City partner Joel Feuer and Los Angeles associate Benyamin Ross are the authors of “The Meaning of Contractual Good Faith” published in the September 11, 2013 issue of the Delaware Business Court Insider.
September 11, 2013