On September 30, 2016, the FCC adopted an order designed to liberalize and streamline the foreign ownership review process for broadcast licensees (the “Broadcast Liberalization Order”). Section 310(b) of the Communications Act caps at 25 percent...
Looking at my twitter stream over the weekend I saw Roy Snell’s tweet “If people cheat simply because of performance goals why do some people with performance goals refuse to cheat?” followed by #cheatingisachoice . Originally published in the...
In the last few years, Delaware courts have issued several rulings in lawsuits involving complaints of excessive compensation to non-employee directors (1). The takeaways from these cases can be summarized as follows......
The Supreme Court recently declined to review In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation—a consolidated class action alleging that Google and third-party advertisers evaded web browser privacy settings, causing cookies to be...
On October 4, 2016, the European Commission adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing EMIR (the Regulation on OTC derivatives, CCPs and trade repositories) (Regulation 648/2012) with regulatory technical standards (“RTS”) on risk mitigation...
Discovery is often the most expensive part of litigation, with document retrieval, review and production costs easily reaching thousands, if not millions of dollars. However, this does not need to be the case....
On 1 July 2016, the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan On Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the transition of the Republic of Kazakhstan to a “green economy” (hereinafter – Green Economy Law) came into...
The Bank of England published a consultation paper proposing the introduction of a draft Code of Practice and Supervisory Statement on governance in recognized payment system operators. The final Code and the Supervisory Statement will contain the...
A long-term review of our collective efforts in ethics and compliance shows that programs are not just managing compliance incidents but also preventing them.... By: NAVEX Global
