Episode 381 -- Cadence Design Pays $140 Million to Settle Trade Violations
Fierce Competition Podcast | Antitrust Collusion in Labor Markets: Enforcement Trends on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Podcast - An Overview of State Attorney General Consumer Protection Enforcement
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance into the Weeds: A Deep Dive into Cadence Design Systems’ Export Control Violations
Daily Compliance News: August 1, 2025, The All AI Edition
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 31, 2025. The Forgotten Generation Edition
Mid-Year Labor & Employment Law Update: Key Developments and Compliance Strategies
Disparate Impact & Enforcement Rollbacks: What’s the Tea in L&E?
CSC Guidance Unveiled: NIL Enforcement and Implications for Collectives — Highway to NIL Podcast
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Cease and Desist Letters: Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Right Way
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Data Driven Compliance: Understanding the UK’s New Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense with Sam Tate
Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
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A federal court recently granted in part and denied in part a franchisor’s motion to enjoin the post-termination activities of its former franchisees and two related entities. Rooterman, LLC is a plumbing services franchisor....more
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was enacted in 2010 in response to the 2008 financial crisis, added protections for whistleblower activity to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange...more
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Seyfarth Synopsis: The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas has issued an order in the Ryan case staying the effective date on a nationwide basis the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Rules banning...more
On September 9, 2024, the Hon. William Orrick of the District of Northern California imposed the maximum penalty sought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) against Defendant Matthew Panuwat—a civil fine of three...more
As discussed in our September 1, 2021 post, the SEC brought its first “shadow insider trading” case against Matthew Panuwat, a company employee who purchased options in a competitor’s shares shortly after learning his...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 30, 2024, approved a settled final judgment against technology company Arista Networks' former chairman and CEO, Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim based on...more
On April 5, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) obtained a verdict after an eight-day civil jury trial in SEC v. Matthew Panuwat (“SEC v. Panuwat”), in which the SEC alleged shadow insider trading, in...more
On Friday, April 5, a California federal jury found a former Medivation executive liable for insider trading under the novel liability theory of “shadow trading,” following an eight-day trial and less than three hours of...more
On April 5, 2024, after an eight-day trial, a jury found Matthew Panuwat liable for violating insider trading laws. Commenting on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s victory, Gurbir Grewal, the agency’s Director of the...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") recently released its enforcement results for Fiscal Year 2023 ("FY 2023"), which ran from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. ...more
As we have previously covered in EmployNews, in June 2023, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a memo arguing that most noncompete agreements violate Section 7 of the National Labor...more
This week, we bring you our special Spilling Secrets podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secrets law: The year 2023 was significant for trade secret and non-compete law, full of enforcement actions and...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) released its enforcement results for fiscal year 2023 on November 7, 2023. The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement filed 96 enforcement actions in 2023 charging a range...more
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DE Shaw, a prominent financial services firm, recently settled a retaliation case with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a staggering $10 million. It was settled via an Administrative Order. This settlement...more
The SEC continues to review non-disclosure agreements and other confidential business information provisions of publicly traded companies to ensure whistleblowers are not restricted from freely communicating with the agency...more
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