On 3 June 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the UK Stewardship Code 2026. The new Code, effective from 1 January 2026, aims to foster long-term sustainable value creation and improve engagement quality…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law, Taxation
As 2025 began, the tech industry anticipated that regulators in the US, EU, and beyond may adopt a more business-friendly approach to antitrust, potentially easing the scrutiny on M&A activities. Opportunities certainly exist to…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Elections & Politics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
The regulator has dropped its proposed “public interest” test, but will take certain aspects of its proposals forwards.
On 3 June 2025, the FCA published its final policy (PS25/5) on announcing enforcement investigations,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The decision emphasizes the importance of judicial deference to agencies on NEPA and narrows the scope of environmental analyses…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law…
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/ Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Health
The proposal could accelerate the permitting process for projects in the state, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects…
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Builders and investors in the crypto space are seeing a wave of regulatory change around the world that could impact their businesses. In this episode of LathamTECH in Focus, Stephen Wink, Global Co-Chair of the Fintech Industry…
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/ Business Organizations, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
The global fintech industry finds itself experiencing a sea change. The US seems on the cusp of regulatory changes, as the Securities and Exchange Commission shifts its attitude toward digital assets under a new administration;…
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The proposals are part of the broader “omnibus” initiative and would postpone due diligence obligations and introduce a “small mid-cap” category for in-scope companies…
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/ Business Organizations, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
General License 25 effectively suspends OFAC sanctions targeting Syria. Stringent US export control restrictions on exports and reexports to Syria remain…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
The European Commission has launched a public consultation seeking feedback on its ongoing review of the 20+-year-old EU merger guidelines…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions
In a memorandum dated May 19, 2025, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the establishment of a new Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (the Initiative) at the Department of Justice (DOJ)…
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/ Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Contracting
In an effort to reverse corporate departures from Delaware, its state legislature amended the Delaware General Corporation Law to overturn multiple Chancery Court decisions…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
The new legislation facilitates easier access to class actions for litigants, which should lead to an increase in the use of class actions in the coming years…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Consumer Protection
The Staff’s most recent actions continue to set the stage for notice-and-comment rulemaking long-awaited by the digital asset industry…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
