Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
CHPS Podcast Episode 5: The Future of Federal Procurement
Expert or Arbitrator? — PE Pathways Podcast
The LathamTECH Podcast — Getting Deals Done: Tackling Antitrust Challenges in Tech M&A
How IP Can Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
To say mergers and acquisitions present significant risk is an understatement; however, additional vulnerabilities are being exposed as bad actors threaten to exploit privacy and data security leaks during the transition. ...more
Join Gardner Law for a half-day CLE event in person at Loft on Two in Boston, MA or attend virtually. Industry experts will decode the intricacies of regulatory scrutiny and strategic decision-making in acquisitions. Gain...more
Hosted by the American Conference Institute, the 19th Annual FCPA & Anti-Corruption Conference for the Life Sciences Industry returns for another exciting year with carefully researched programming based on critical findings...more
Join Gardner Law and colleagues live from Lord Fletcher's on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota for a complimentary CLE event. Hear from a panel of experts on compliance, data breaches, FDA regulations, privacy, and more....more
Cyber risks are increasing, and as a result, due diligence inquiries and valuations are increasingly focusing on the cybersecurity and privacy risks inherent in a business’s collection, use, retention and disposal of data. ...more
Au cours des dernières années, nous avons constaté qu’un bon nombre d’opérations de fusion et acquisition (« F&A ») ont mis un accent de plus en plus important sur la vérification diligente en matière de cybersécurité. C’est...more
In recent years, we have seen an increased focus on cybersecurity due diligence in many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. This directly relates to most organizations being heavily dependant on digital assets to...more
How can private equity firms identify and mitigate inherited liability risk from vulnerable portfolio companies? Ongoing big ticket regulatory fines coupled with high profile corporate veil cases indicate that private...more
When prospective buyers conduct legal due diligence in merger and acquisition transactions the main focus is typically on the traditional items, such as financials, debt instruments, major contracts and other key metrics...more
Milk, meat, fruits, breads … and data protection. These are the new food groups for your M&A deal. Just 24 hours after the notice of intent to fine British Airways 183 Million GBP, the UK ICO issued an intent to fine...more
As data are quickly becoming significant corporate assets, lawyers need to help companies both maximize the value of their data and protect the business against any associated risks. This is particularly true in M&A...more
In 2016, Marriott International announced its acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Coined by Marriott as a "smooth transaction," the announcement of the acquisition received an overwhelmingly positive response....more
Marriott announced a major data breach, perhaps one of the largest in history. This breach illustrates the often made point that breaches and intrusions happen and go unnoticed for months or years....more
The FTC can hold an acquirer responsible for the bad data privacy practices of a company that it acquires. Evaluating a target’s data privacy practices, however, can be daunting and complicated by the fact that many “data”...more
Cyber due diligence is quickly becoming the “new normal” for buyers in M&A transactions as they seek to protect themselves against cyber risk. Cyber due diligence, however, is only part of the solution. Many sophisticated...more
Amid a growing number of high-profile corporate data breaches, cybersecurity is now a key issue for strategic acquirers. Thehack of Yahoo, which came to light midway through its 2016 takeover by Verizon, resulted in a US$350...more
Nationalism and Cross-Border M&A: Navigating Populist Politics in Deal Making - More than half of the G20 countries voted-in campaigns that focused on harming foreign, outside interests as a means to strengthen domestic...more
Yahoo Inc. recently disclosed three massive data breaches, which compromised the personal information of 1.5 billion users and cost Yahoo $350 million in its acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc. Additionally, the...more
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC announces the release of its annual "Securities & Shareholder Litigation 2017: A Look Ahead," a high-level report that covers recent developments and offers best practices for the year ahead. The newly...more
Cybersecurity due diligence is quickly becoming part of standard best practices in Merger & Acquisition (“M&A”) deals. Traditionally, the primary goal of due diligence is to investigate the target of a merger or acquisition...more
Recently, in the midst of an M&A transaction involving Verizon and Yahoo!, news broke of a Yahoo! cybersecurity breach that had occurred approximately two years earlier. This event raised a lot of speculation around what...more