On January 25, 2023, Quinn Emanuel obtained a Court order setting aside in full a Civil Investigative Demand that DOJ’s Antitrust Division had issued to the National Association of REALTORS®. The Court’s order bars the...more
Before the 2020 election, many predicted that a Biden administration would take a more aggressive approach to enforcement and regulation than President Trump, particularly in the areas of financial crime and consumer and...more
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States has responded with a flurry of sweeping economic sanctions that target some of Russia’s largest and most important financial institutions and state-owned enterprises,...more
With the passing of the Criminal Finances Act 2017, the UK government introduced a powerful new investigative tool to supplement the arsenal of UK law enforcement agencies investigating financial crime. Agencies such as the...more
On July 1, 2021, Quinn Emanuel won a seminal First Amendment victory in the United States Supreme Court, protecting the rights of all nonprofits and their donors. The Court adopted our arguments as to why and how the First...more
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In December 2020, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (“Defense Act”), which includes significant reforms to the United States’ monitoring system for financial crimes. Although...more
On February 26, 2020, a federal judge in Connecticut dealt yet another blow to the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) aggressive approach to prosecuting foreign companies and individuals for overseas bribery. In a 29-page...more
On Tuesday, February 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Rosneft Trading S.A., the Swiss trading arm of Russia's state-controlled oil company, and its chairman of...more