On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order (EO) 14117 titled “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.” On March 5,...more
4/1/2024
/ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Biometric Information ,
Cyber Espionage ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Executive Orders ,
Geolocation ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
National Security ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
Social Security Act
On October 3, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began reporting on millions of confidential documents relating to the financial activities of heads of state, international business leaders, and other...more
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued its first major decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) in Van Buren v. United States. The decision has significant implications for how organizations protect...more
On October 27, 2020, a U.S.-based producer and distiller of beverages, Beam Suntory, Inc. (“Beam” or “the Company”), agreed to pay a penalty of nearly $20 million dollars to resolve a Department of Justice investigation into...more
Department of Education Report Warns that Academic Institutions Are Failing to Meet Compliance Obligations in Fight Against Foreign Influence
Last month the Department of Education (“DOE” or “Department”) released an...more
11/23/2020
/ Accounting Controls ,
Audits ,
Compliance ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Education ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Educational Institutions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
FBI ,
Foreign Entities ,
Higher Education Act ,
NASA ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
National Security ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reporting Requirements
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced that it reached a $5,500,000 settlement with a biomedical research institute that received NIH grant funding–the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI)–to resolve allegations...more
2/26/2020
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Enforcement Actions ,
Failure To Disclose ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Grants ,
Foreign Investment ,
Government Investigations ,
Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Research Funding ,
Settlement
On February 13, 2020, two Final Rules issued by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (“CFIUS”) implementing most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”) became...more
On December 13, 2019, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released an updated Export Control and Sanctions Enforcement Policy for Business Organizations (“Policy”), revising the prior policy governing voluntary self-disclosures...more
1/17/2020
/ Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) ,
Export Controls ,
Exports ,
FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Internal Investigations ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
International Sales ,
Non-Prosecution Agreements ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Sanction Violations ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements
This is the third alert in our series on the risks to corporations, including financial services firms, posed by “deepfakes”—a type of technology, powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, that can be used to...more
12/16/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Audio Recording ,
China ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Conspiracy ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Deep Fake ,
Espionage ,
FBI ,
Financial Fraud ,
Foreign Governments ,
Industrial Espionage ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Malware ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
Video Recordings
Report from the 2019 Mayors’ Annual Energy Summit in Carlsbad, NM -
We attended the Mayors’ Annual Energy Summit again this year, on September 12, at the Walter Gerrells Civic Center Annex in Carlsbad, NM. The Mayors’...more
10/14/2019
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CFIUS ,
Climate Change ,
DIFC ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Energy Summit ,
Foreign Investment ,
Human Rights ,
Oil & Gas ,
Project Finance
On September 17, 2019, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) published two Proposed Rules to implement most of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”). CFIUS is an...more
9/19/2019
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Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cybersecurity ,
FIRRMA ,
Foreign Investment ,
Infrastructure ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Proposed Rules ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Technology Sector