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Diversifying to boost financial resilience

IR Global on 3/26/2025

Q1: How can proactive risk management strategies help businesses navigate regulatory and economic uncertainties? The last few years have offered some, often difficult, lessons to many businesses who found themselves...more

Preparing for the AI Agent Revolution: Navigating the Legal and Compliance Challenges of Autonomous Decision-Makers

StoneTurn on 2/18/2025

The rise of AI agents—autonomous decision-making systems—is set to revolutionize business operations by significantly expanding the role of AI beyond generative models like ChatGPT. Unlike traditional AI tools, agentic AI can...more

AI Legal Watch - January 2025

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 1/29/2025

Glass Lewis, one of the leading proxy advisory firms, recently updated its policy guidelines for 2025 to include recommendations regarding board oversight of AI. In the new guidelines, Glass Lewis emphasizes the importance of...more

UK AI policy developments and where next

A&O Shearman on 11/22/2024

As the EU presses ahead with its implementation of the AI Act, the UK continues to develop its evolutionary approach to AI policy and regulation. As the new Labour Government starts to implement its perspective and ahead of a...more

The Future of AI Is Here—But Are You Ready? Learn the OECD’s Blueprint for Ethical AI

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model on 10/22/2024

The future of Artificial Intelligence isn’t just on the horizon—it’s already transforming industries and reshaping how businesses operate. But with this rapid evolution comes new challenges. Ethical concerns, privacy risks,...more

Navigating the New Cybersecurity Landscape: Key Implications of the EU’s NIS 2 Directive

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/14/2024

The deadline for EU countries to transpose the expanded cybersecurity directive, NIS 2, into national law is 17 October 2024, but the implementation status varies significantly from country to country. Some of the member...more

Global ESG Insights - May 2024

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/5/2024

Welcome to the latest edition of our monthly ESG Insights providing you with a summary of the key developments from around the world. Global - IFRS Foundation releases jurisdictional adoption guide for ISSB Standards- On...more

Hot Topics: AI and ESG

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/1/2024

The US Government Is Using AI To Detect Potential Wrongdoing, and Companies Should Too With agencies such as the SEC and DOJ using AI and other data analytics tools extensively to detect wrongdoing, companies need to adopt...more

FBI, DOJ and SEC Publish Guidance on Requesting Delayed Reporting of Material Cyber Incidents on Form 8-K: Takeaways for CISOs and...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/20/2023

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules in 2023 that are intended to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident reporting by...more

What Does the SEC’s Complaint Against SolarWinds Mean for CISOs and Boards?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 11/7/2023

On October 30, 2023, the SEC filed a litigated complaint against SolarWinds, a software development company, and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer (CISO). The SEC alleges that from October 2018, when...more

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules for U.S. Public Companies and Foreign Private Issuers

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 9/7/2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted new rules requiring the disclosure of cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and material incidents (the “Rules”), effective September 5, 2023. The Rules...more

Cybersecurity Developments and Legal Issues

White & Case LLP on 3/22/2023

For most large companies, a frictionless flow of information and the ability to transfer customer data, employee files, financial records and other information around the world quickly and cost-effectively is a critical...more

FTC Announces Decision “with a 100% chance of far-reaching” Impact for Data Breaches

Polsinelli on 10/27/2022

On Monday the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release stating it is settling a case against Drizly and its CEO for a data breach that exposed the information of 2.5 million consumers in July 2020. The proposed...more

Cyber security breaches: how would you answer the crucial question?

White & Case LLP on 9/19/2022

The crucial question that a company and its board will face if it suffers a cyber security breach is: "Had you taken reasonable steps to try to prevent a breach, and to prepare to handle any breach that occurred?" If the...more

Cybersecurity, False Statements and Omissions

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/28/2022

Cybersecurity and the related disclosures can be critical issues for any company in today’s environment. This question is at the center of a recent decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals....more

Enforcement Trends From China’s Cyberspace Regulator in 2022

Perkins Coie on 4/11/2022

China’s internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has continued to tighten its regulation of internet industries and driven the formulation of many new laws and regulations in cybersecurity and data...more

Cyber Predictions 2022

K2 Integrity on 2/10/2022

Where We Stand - This year kicks off against the backdrop of the security flaw found in Log4j, a system-logging code library widely used in applications and services across the Internet. In the aftermath of this crisis, a...more

Preparing for the 2022 Reporting Season

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 12/20/2021

Below is a high-level summary of applicable rule changes, guidance, and disclosure considerations for the 2022 reporting season for public companies....more

A Practical Guide to the Role of Directors in Fighting Ransomware

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/17/2021

Takeaways - Boards need to take an active role overseeing cybersecurity measures. - Directors may be held personally responsible for lapses that result in attacks. - U.S. money laundering and sanctions rules may prohibit...more

Cybersecurity: the SEC Provides Guidance on Well-Known and Emerging Best Practices

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/13/2020

At the end of January, the U.S. Securities and Exchange’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) released its “Observations on Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practices” (Observations)....more

SEC Releases Cybersecurity and Resiliency Observations: A Potentially Useful Guide for Businesses

Hogan Lovells on 2/7/2020

In today’s connected world, businesses face constant pressure to improve their cybersecurity practices and to confirm that they are meeting industry standards. To continue helping businesses achieve those goals, the SEC...more

Is Your Company’s Board of Directors Cyber Savvy?

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 3/26/2019

Every company should expect that at some point it will experience a data breach. Whether as a result of hackers, disgruntled employees, or careless acts such as losing an unencrypted phone or laptop, data breaches may subject...more

Life With GDPR: Episode 22- Morrisons’ and vicarious liability

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 2/7/2019

In this episode, I visit with Jonathan Armstrong on the recent UK court of appeals decision in the Morrisons’ case. This decision stretched the limits of vicarious liability for a corporation to the absolute breaking point...more

GDPR Top 5 Actions You Should Take NOW

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 5/24/2018

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25th. As most organizations are aware, the GDPR applies not only to EU businesses but also many companies in the U.S. While the deadline is quickly...more

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