As part of the 2025–2026 Victorian State Budget announced on 20 May 2025, the Victorian government has confirmed that it intends to extend the availability of an expanded off-the-plan stamp duty concession for a further 12-month…
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/ Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
California started 2025 with significant activity around artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Legislators and state agencies introduced new bills and regulations to regulate AI-driven hiring and management tools, and a…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On 15 May 2025, the UK government published a policy paper summarising findings from a cross-government review of sanctions implementation and enforcement. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office led the review in…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
These are challenging times for supply chains. In recent months, the US government has announced, reversed, delayed, adjusted, and enacted a series of tariffs on imports to the United States from a long list of countries; some…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
On 15 May 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets (Division) released Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) clarifying how certain broker-dealer and transfer agency rules relate to crypto…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on 14 May 2025 establishing a framework for the mutual recognition of funds (MRF) between…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
On 8 May 2025, the United Kingdom’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) of HM Treasury published a penalty notice regarding a breach of financial sanctions by a UK registered company—Svarog Shipping & Trading…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
On Thursday, 8 May, shortly after the announcement of the trade agreement with the United Kingdom and the United States, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent provided additional details on…
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/ International Law & Trade
Growing corporate and financial industry interest in Texas as a viable alternative to Delaware for incorporation is creating a trend, which is being called “Dexit.”…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law, Taxation
The Federal Circuit recently resolved a split among the district courts whether patent infringement defendants who bring inter partes review (IPR) challenges are estopped from raising new prior art challenges in a co-pending…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
The renewable energy industry in the United States is facing new headwinds in the form of state legislation that could delay, disincentivize, or even potentially prevent the completion of planned solar and wind projects. For…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
On 8 May 2025, US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced an agreement on General Terms of the Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD) between the United States and the United Kingdom. Although not a binding…
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/ Agriculture, International Law & Trade, Transportation
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, recently concluded a landmark tour of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was his first official foreign…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On 14 May 2025, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s plan to address the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
During the first quarter of 2025, the French Supreme Court has rendered a number of rulings on harassment in the workplace. Whether moral, institutional, environmental or sexual, harassment is a burning topic and the French…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
