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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard - Quarter 2, 2025

This is the second edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2025. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. This edition includes developments...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Ninth Circuit Addresses the Scope of Section 12(a)(2) Liability for Misleading Opinion Statements Under Omnicare

On June 10, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Pino v. Cardone Capital, LLC reversed in part the dismissal of claims brought under the Securities Act of 1933 based on statements made in connection with two...more

Mayer Brown

US Supreme Court Grants Review in One ERISA Case, and Has Now Called for Views of the Solicitor General in Two Other ERISA Cases

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Fresh off its April 17, 2025 decision in Cunningham v. Cornell University, the US Supreme Court is setting the stage to delve back into ERISA issues next Term. On Monday, the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Texas House Bill 40 Will Reshape the New Texas Business Courts

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On June 1, 2025, the Texas legislature passed HB 40, and Governor Greg Abbott signed it on June 21, 2025. The new law helps further define the jurisdiction of Texas’s Business Courts, originally established in 2023. This is...more

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Qualification de titres acquis lors d’une augmentation de capital suivie d’une cession

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La Cour administrative d’appel de Nancy confirme que la moins-value constatée lors de la cession de titres souscrits dans le cadre d’une recapitalisation préalable à la cession d’une filiale reste non déductible, ces titres...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in SEC Disgorgement Case

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On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in the case of Navellier & Associates, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This decision effectively upholds the lower courts’ rulings,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

YA Global Brings its Fight to the Appellate Level

On April 28, YA Global Investments, LP (“YA Global”) filed an appeal in the 3rd Circuit, contesting the Tax Court’s decision in YA Global Investments, LP v. Commissioner. In YA Global Investments, the court found that YA...more

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Hong Kong's Highest Court Issues Ruling on Keepwell Deeds

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On March 19, 2025, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ("CFA") issued a landmark ruling on the enforceability of "keepwell deeds" in Peking University Founder Group Company Limited v. Nuoxi Capital Limited....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Court Affirms $1.6B Judgment in Bahamas Mega Project Dispute

A New York appeals court has affirmed a $1.6 billion award for the developer of a Bahamas mega project against various subsidiaries of China State Construction Engineering Corporation, the world’s largest construction company...more

Blank Rome LLP

Deference Denied to the South Carolina Department of Revenue

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The South Carolina Court of Appeals determined that Duke Energy Corporation (“Duke”) was entitled to claim nearly $25 million in investment tax credits on its 1996 to 2014 South Carolina income tax returns, as the investment...more

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L'erreur comptable délibérée et l'inscription en comptabilité de titres de participation

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Dans une décision du 12 mars 2025, le Conseil d'Etat confirme que si l'inscription initiale de titres en titres de participation constitue une erreur délibérée, la société ne peut bénéficier des effets d'une rectification de...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Section 337 Now Viable for “Mere Importers” After Federal Circuit’s Lashify Decision

For years, the U.S. International Trade Commission maintained that the potent remedies available under Section 337 were unavailable to intellectual property owners considered to be nothing more than “mere importers.” That...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario annule une sentence arbitrale en raison d’une crainte raisonnable de partialité

Dans l’affaire Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. Mexico (l« affaire Vento »), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a annulé une sentence prononcée par une formation arbitrale (la « sentence »), en raison d’une crainte...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Federal Circuit Clarifies That “Quantitatively Small” Investments Can Establish Significant and Substantial Investment in Domestic...

On Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Wuhan Healthgen Biotech. Corp. v. U.S. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 23-1389, 2025 WL 420819 (Fed. Cir. 2025). The three-judge panel, consisting of Chief...more

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Federal Circuit Asked to Rethink ITC’s Longstanding Exclusion of Investment Categories for Economic Domestic Industry

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A US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit panel consisting of Judges Sharon Prost, Richard Taranto, and Raymond Chen recently heard oral argument in Lashify, Inc. v. US International Trade Commission, an appeal from a...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

This Week's Climate Policy Update - December 8 - December 14, 2024

Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings...more

King & Spalding

Divided Ninth Circuit Panel Reaffirms “Ponzi Scheme Presumption” of Intent to Defraud in Fraudulent Transfer Action

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On August 23, 2024, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a jury’s verdict for a Chapter 7 trustee in an actual fraudulent transfer claim, which was based on the determination that...more

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Missouri Abandons Appeal of Court Decision Striking Down State Anti-ESG Rules\

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Last month, a federal district court struck down Missouri's anti-ESG rules that would prohibit investment advisors from utilizing ESG factors when making investment decisions (absent written consent of the client). ...more

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Eleventh Circuit Reiterates that Burden of Proving Loss Causation Stays with Plaintiffs

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the fiduciaries of the Home Depot 401(k) plan, who defended against claims that they breached their fiduciary...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - June 2024

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Welcome to the June edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month features the latest Court of Appeal decision in a trilogy of recent cases regarding the loan relationship “unallowable purpose” test, an Upper Tribunal decision...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dual registrant regulatory roundup - July 2024

Welcome to the Regulatory Roundup. Each month, Eversheds Sutherland Investment Services attorneys review significant regulatory developments (including notable rulemakings and guidance from securities regulators) from the...more

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Judge Denies FTC’s Request to Enjoin Sale of Two Hospitals in North Carolina

Last week, a federal judge in North Carolina declined to preliminarily enjoin Novant Health, Inc.’s (“Novant”) acquisition of two hospitals from Community Health Systems, Inc. (“CHS”). The FTC filed suit in federal court and...more

Cooley LLP

UK Supreme Court Confirms Requirements for Claims in ‘Knowing Receipt’

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At the end of 2023, the UK Supreme Court handed down judgment in Byers and others v. Saudi National Bank. Unanimously dismissing the appeal, the Supreme Court definitively determined that a claim in knowing receipt cannot be...more

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Pensions in Dispute - November 2023

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Welcome to our quarterly pensions litigation briefing, designed to help pensions managers identify key risks in scheme administration and trustees update their knowledge and understanding. This briefing highlights recent...more

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Conversion of shares, variation of class rights and interpretation of articles of association the Court of Appeal decision in the...

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision regarding the interplay between potentially conflicting provisions in a company’s articles of association. The provisions in question related to the conversion of shares...more

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