This note is dedicated to importers and producers of specific goods from countries outside the European Union, who will be subject to carbon pricing equivalent to that applied to European manufacturers of the same goods, without…
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/ Environmental Law, International Law & Trade, Taxation
Texas continues to position itself as a business-friendly jurisdiction of choice with the passage of Senate Bill 2411, signed by Governor Greg Abbott on May 27, 2025. Effective September 1, the new law amends the Texas Business…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The Texas Supreme Court has settled the issue of who owns the voids, known as salt caverns, created in subsurface salt formations (whether naturally occurring or caused as a result of salt mining operations). In Myers-Woodward,…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial
The Arbitration Act 2025 (the “Act”) received Royal Assent on 24 February 2025. Its stated aim is to amend the Arbitration Act 1996, which governs arbitral claims seated in England and Wales. It marks a gentle evolution of the…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Conflict of Laws
On May 29, 2025, the US Supreme Court pressed the reset button on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), issuing an 8-0 decision intended to convert what NEPA has become, a “judicial oak,” back into the originally…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
With a pair of bills signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on May 14, 2025, and May 20, 2025, Texas took a major step in positioning itself as the pro-business jurisdiction of choice for public and private companies. The…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law
We have set out below an overview of the current regulatory frameworks governing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in the key jurisdictions of the UK, EU and USA.
SAF has emerged as a critical component in the global drive to…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade, Transportation
On May 15, 2025, the Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE), Chris Wright, issued a memo entitled “Secretarial Policy on Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance” in which Secretary Wright announced DOE’s intent to…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Government Contracting
DOJ sets out new enforcement priorities for corporate and white-collar crime and emphasizes “focus, fairness and efficiency.”…
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/ Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
The patent eligibility of claims involving the use of machine learning (ML) was recently considered by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., Case No. 2023-2437 (Fed…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. We dedicate…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
As the global economy increasingly digitizes, the infrastructure supporting this shift must evolve accordingly. In Africa, where the demand for digital services is surging — fueled by mobile penetration, fintech innovation, and…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Science, Computers, & Technology
Approximately two weeks ago, British, French and Swiss law enforcement authorities announced the creation of a new international alliance. With their joint Founding Statement (“Statement”), the three countries established the…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
President Trump has used tariffs as a significant point of geopolitical leverage since the beginning of his second term. Indeed, his administration dubbed April 2, 2025 “Liberation Day” in honor of a sweeping set of tariffs…
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/ Elections & Politics, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
Having granted a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the “Ninth Circuit”) in Amalgamated Bank et al v. Facebook, Inc. et al (In re Facebook, Inc…
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/ Civil Procedure, Securities Law
