Whatever your business—whether you are an investor looking at new investments, managing existing positions or planning exits, or a corporate concerned with protecting and enhancing your business—the current public health crisis has brought a host of...
What is the value of having a Code of Conduct? I have heard many business folks ask that question over the years. In its early days, a Code of Conduct tended to be a lawyer-written and lawyer-driven document to wave in regulator’s face during an...
Leveraging the latest Microsoft® API’s and machine learning, Exterro Office 365 Explorer gives you the ability to reduce collection/processing costs and learn more about your case sooner by quickly analyzing custodian data stored in Microsoft Office...
The HUD Office of Inspector General issued a Memorandum on April 27, 2020, reporting on the results of its review of the information on CARES Act forbearance on the websites of 30 mortgage servicers who service approximately 90 percent of FHA...
The 13th Advanced Flagship Conference on Economic Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance is widely regarded as the flagship event for senior executives and practitioners, who work in the areas of global sanctions compliance, internal audits and...
Across the US and EU, life sciences companies are pushing diagnostics, antibody testing, vaccines and other efforts forward to flatten the Coronavirus (COVID-19) curve. Our multidisciplinary cross-border life sciences team will examine the current...
U.S. Developments - Money Laundering in Bitcoin . . . is Still Money Laundering - On April 17, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, affirmed a conviction on five counts of money laundering where the underlying payments were made...
In a recent posting, Professor Stephen Bainbridge breaks down the question of whether breach of fiduciary duty claims by a shareholder may be brought as direct, rather than, derivative claims. The focus of his discussion is on breach of fiduciary...
On May 1, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order that prohibits the acquisition or installation in the United States of certain electrical equipment originating in countries designated as “foreign adversaries.” The Executive Order is broadly...
We previously wrote about the contract defenses that business may rely on when an epidemic or government orders impairs contractual performance and recently analyzed these defenses under California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New York, and North...
