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Dubai Overhauls Construction Sector with New Law to Regulate Contracting Activities: What Employers Need to Know—Part 2

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Dubai has issued Law No. 7/2025 establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for contracting activities across the Emirate, including its free zones and special development areas.  The new law introduces important...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC’s Looming STIR/SHAKEN Requirements May Raise USF Obligations and Exposure for Certain Providers

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A September 18 deadline is fast approaching for certain voice service providers to comply with expanded STIR/SHAKEN requirements approved last year by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC’s Eighth Report...more

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Nigeria Launches Investigations into Noncompliance with Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023

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The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 ("NDP Act") seeks to safeguard the fundamental rights, freedoms, and interests of data subjects as enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria....more

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Dubai Overhauls Construction Sector with New Law to Regulate Contracting Activities: What Contractors Need to Know

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Dubai has issued Law No. 7/2025 establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for contracting activities across the Emirate, including its free zones and special development areas. The new law introduces important...more

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Uganda: Data Protection Regulator Clarifies Compliance Requirements for Offshore Entities

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In a decision issued on 18 July 2025 against Google LLC, the Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) has affirmed that the data protection compliance obligations under Ugandan law apply to all entities that handle the personal...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CPPA fines data broker for failing to register under the Delete Act

On July 28, the CPPA released a stipulated final order to impose a $55,400 administrative fine on a data broker for failing to register with the agency by the January 31, 2024, deadline as required by California’s Delete Act....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Contractor Registration in Washington State: Why It's an Important Prerequisite To File Breach of Contract Lawsuits

In Dobson v. Archibald, the Washington Supreme Court addressed and confirmed statutory analyses concerning the required contractor registration in Washington. 1 Wash. 3d 102, 523 P.3d 1190 (2023). Contractors and potential...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

CFTC Staff Letter 25-14: What Is a “U.S. Person”?

On May 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division and Division of Market Oversight jointly issued Staff Letter 25-14 in response to a request from SCB Limited, a Bahamas-based...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Regulation in Flux, March 2025 - CFTC Staff Withdraws Advisory on Swap Execution Facility Registration Requirement

On March 13, 2025, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued Letter 25-05, withdrawing controversial and much-criticized Staff Letter 21-19 (“SEF Registration Advisory”), which was issued September 29, 2021...more

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Registration and Fingerprinting Requirements for Foreign Nationals

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Beginning April 11, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will enforce provisions requiring all non-U.S. citizens over age 14 register and be fingerprinted if they are in the U.S. for at least 30 days and have...more

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SEC Deep-Sixes Its Expanded “Dealer” Definition

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Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended its definition of “dealer” to require broker-dealer registration by some persons or entities previously considered securities “traders” not subject to such...more

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DOJ Announces Significant Proposed Changes to Amend and Clarify FARA

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On December 19, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) intended to “update and clarify” the regulations under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The proposed changes to...more

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CPPA Announces Settlements with Data Brokers for Failure to Register Under the Delete Act

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On November 14, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), which is tasked with enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), announced it settled with two data brokers, Growbots, Inc. and UpLead...more

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CFTC Issues Cease and Desist Order to Binary Options Operator Using Smart Contracts

On January 3, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) entered an order charging Blockratize, Inc. (d/b/a Polymarket.com) (“Polymarket”) with offering off-exchange binary options contracts and failing to...more

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10 Key Takeaways From California’s New Consumer Finance Regulatory And Enforcement Regime

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Three California laws that affect fintech companies will go into effect on January 1, 2021. The California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) expands the scope of the Department of Business Oversight’s (DBO) current...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Department of Justice Announces First Known Criminal Prosecution Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act

On June 25, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Jack Abramoff intends to plead guilty to criminal violations of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA), in what is the first known criminal prosecution under...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FinCEN – We Will Identify Where Compliance Is Not Taking Place And Take Appropriate Action

Last week we reported that FinCEN had issued new guidance addressing cryptocurrency and other convertible virtual currency. The need for compliance was reinforced this week. In a speech by Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary for...more

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CFTC Staff No-Action Relief Allowing Additional Swap Activity for a Bank Relying on the IDI Exclusion from Swap Dealer...

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On August 28, 2018, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a staff no-action letter allowing an anonymous individual financial institution...more

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Beam Settles FCPA Violations with SEC for $8 Million for Pervasive Third-Party Bribery Schemes

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After a lengthy investigation conducted by the SEC, Beam Suntory agreed to pay $8 million to settle FCPA violations in India. Beam’s settlement took over 5 years from initial disclosure to resolution – a long-time to say the...more

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