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The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023: What companies need to know and what they can do to prepare

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 sets out two major reforms making it much easier for UK authorities to prosecute corporate wrongdoing: - it substantially increases the circumstances in which a company can be held liable for crimes committed by their employees.

EBA publishes report on remuneration and gender pay gap for financial institutions

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued its latest report on remuneration and gender pay gap benchmarking for institutions and investment firms, together with a press release.

Clark Hill 2025 Commercial Real Estate Outlook: The Number One Cybersecurity Threat Facing the Real Estate Sector

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

When we talk to clients about cybersecurity, it tends to conjure up images of ransomware, systems that are encrypted and inaccessible, and stolen data. For the real estate sector, ransomware isn’t the largest cybersecurity threat.

Mistake No. 10 of the Top 10 Horrible, No-Good Mistakes Construction Lawyers Make: Not Treating Your Arbitrator Like Santa

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

I have practiced law for 40 years with the vast majority as a “construction” lawyer. I have seen great… and bad… construction lawyering, both when representing a party and when serving over 300 times as a mediator or arbitrator in construction disputes.

Not to Change the Subject (Line) ...but Email Marketers May Want to Take Note of a Recent Washington Supreme Court Ruling

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

Email marketers will want to take note of a recent Washington State Supreme Court opinion interpreting what constitutes a subject line that is “false or misleading” under Washington’s Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA)....

Sec Lit IQ: MoFo’s Quarterly Federal Securities Litigation and Delaware Corporate Litigation Newsletter (Q1 2025)

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

In our second edition of MoFo’s quarterly federal securities and Delaware corporate litigation newsletter, we provide a rundown of select developments from the first quarter of 2025.

President Trump’s SEC Trims Crypto Oversight

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

As we recently reviewed in The First Two Months of the SEC Under President Trump, since taking office for the second time, President Trump has moved quickly to make changes throughout the federal government in keeping with his campaign rhetoric.

Valuation Trends, Buyer-Seller Dynamics, and Advice for Sell-Side Businesses: A Conversation with Michael Norton of Houlihan Capital (Part 2)

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

Below is part 2 of his conversation with Michael Norton, Director of Business Development at Houlihan Capital, a solutions-driven valuation, financial advisory, and investment banking firm.

The Patents Are Coming! The Patents Are Coming!—USPTO Reduces Time to Issue Patents

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

Under the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) modernization efforts, the time between paying the issue fee and issuance of the patent is being reduced.

Federal Circuit Refines Section 101 Eligibility as Applied to Machine Learning Patents

By EsqSocial Corporation 23/04/25

On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., affirming dismissal, by the District Court of Delaware, of patent infringement claims brought by Recentive Analytics, Inc.

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