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President issues executive order to enforce compliance with regulatory reform agenda

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

As part of his 100-day action plan, the President promised to institute a regulatory moratorium by requiring that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. On January 30, 2017, the President signed an executive...

DOJ’s Compliance Program Evaluation: Risk Assessment, Policies and Procedures and Third-Party Risk Management (Part III of IV)

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

To design and implement an effective ethics and compliance program, companies have to conduct a risk assessment and tailor its policies and programs to its risk profile. DOJ’s Compliance Evaluation reinforces this framework for a compliance program....

Coming Down the Pipeline: Mitigating the Payment Risk in Oil and Gas Construction Through Lien Claims

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

Since 2015, the oil and gas market has experienced significant distress. Recent reports have tracked at least 114 North American oil and gas producers and 16 midstream companies that have filed for bankruptcy since the beginning of 2015, involving a...

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

SoftBank’s been burning up the deal scene in recent months (Fortress, anyone?), and it keeps right on rolling by helping orchestrate the merger of satellite operator and investee OneWeb with Intelsat in a bid to increase high-speed internet access....

Estimates from Common Metering System are Insufficient to Maintain Oil and Gas Lease

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

Recently, the Seventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio in Joseph and Anna Lang v. Weis Drilling Company, et al., Slip Opinion No. 2016-Ohio-88213, held that estimates derived from a common metering system are insufficient to refute evidence that a...

TIC Form SHC Deadline Approaching to Report U.S. Ownership of Foreign Securities

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released a revised Form SHC (with corresponding instructions), which is part of the Treasury International Capital (TIC) data reporting system. Form SHC is the mandatory five-year benchmark survey of the...

DOL Proposes to Delay Fiduciary and Beryllium Rules

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

In response to recent presidential directives, the U.S. Department of Labor is taking steps to delay the applicability and effective dates of two rules. First, the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has proposed to extend by 60...

Florida Employers: Here Comes Medical Marijuana – Are You Ready?

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

Florida voters turned out in droves to pass Amendment 2 to legalize medical marijuana. This Constitutional Amendment greatly expanded what was once a very narrow right in Florida to be treated with low dose THC cannabis. With its passage, Florida...

Relocation of the EU Medicines Agency - The Netherlands: Tulips & EMA, a Gouda combination

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

The EMA is looking for a new home. According to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports' formal bid, this home is where the heart of the Netherlands is. It might not have the food, weather or mountains...

France embraces security trustee arrangements

By EsqSocial Corporation 01/03/17

France's Sapin II Act was introduced last year to bring France into line with the highest international standards of transparency, in the fight against corruption and to guarantee more effective financing of the economy. A notable development for the...

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