The Norwegian Transparency Act requires subject companies to publicly report on the human rights due diligence they must carry out under the Act. These reports must be published every year, by June 30. With the 2025 reporting…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, International Law & Trade
On Tuesday the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued an updated version of its Enforcement Guide, which will now be referred to as ‘ENFG’ in the FCA Handbook, to distinguish it from the previous version. The ENFG is now…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
Last month the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set out its final rules related to the application of investment research payment optionality to fund managers. This move follows its consultation paper late last year which…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The global M&A market is forever evolving, and nowhere is this truer than in beauty, which has recently seen a notable surge in growth and popularity. McKinsey forecasts global beauty sales to grow six percent annually until…
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/ Health, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Science, Computers, & Technology
Many secondaries players began 2025 with the anticipation that the new presidential administration might further liberalize rules around access to private equity markets. SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins and Division of Investment…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On May 22, Ropes & Gray and McKinsey & Company co-hosted the 12th Medtech Regulatory Affairs Roundtable online. Around 40 Regulatory Affairs leaders from Chinese and multinational medtech companies gathered to review and discuss…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) recently published Version 2.0 of its new Due Diligence Reporting Template (DDRT). The DDRT supports AIAG’s Forced Labor Due Diligence Program for the automotive industry. According to…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) began to articulate the Trump administration’s retirement policy priorities with its decisions to (i) end its defense of the Biden-era ESG rule in a long-running lawsuit…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) are critical for diagnosing rare diseases and addressing unmet clinical needs. They are developed, manufactured, and used within a single licensed clinical laboratory for purposes of clinical…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The California Air Resources Board held an almost four hour virtual public workshop on May 29 on California’s pending climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions disclosure laws. The stated purpose of the workshop was to support…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Environmental Law
In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into investigation and document review processes is transforming the way legal professionals operate. AI technologies promise…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab’s four-part Multidimensional Data Reversion podcast series, Shannon Capone Kirk and David Yanofsky discuss the crucial steps in the iterative cycle of data analysis,…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 21, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced plans to substantially increase both the pace and the scale of Risk Adjustment Data Validation (“RADV”) audits of the Medicare Advantage (“MA”)…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Health, Insurance
On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”) as part of the Republican Congress’s reconciliation package. The BBB generally extends certain tax provisions of the 2017 Tax…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
On this Ropes & Gray podcast, Alyssa Horton and Colleen Meyer, both counsel in the private funds regulatory group, explore the recent SEC staff guidance on the Marketing Rule. They discuss the new FAQs issued on March 19, 2025,…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
