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KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Directors Quarterly: July 2025

As companies continue to respond to the impact of continuing tariff turbulence, a sweeping domestic policy bill in the Unites States, ongoing geopolitical risk, and expected slower global growth, boards must help management...more

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Risks Increase As U.S. Escalates Pressure Against Mexico With Regulatory Focus On The Financing Of Fentanyl

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The evolving U.S.-Mexico geopolitical relationship is now fundamentally burdened by the growing regulatory, enforcement, and real risks tied to cartel activity, drug trafficking and the fentanyl trade, immigration, and a...more

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Navigating the CFIUS Fast Track Program

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In May 2025, the Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), announced a new “fast track process to facilitate greater investment in U.S. businesses from ally and partner...more

K&L Gates LLP

What You Need to Know About the United Kingdom Issuing Sanctions Guidance for Non-UK Businesses

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The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has published guidance on United Kingdom’s Russia sanctions compliance for non-UK businesses operating outside the United Kingdom (the Guidance). It also...more

Stankie Law

Revocation of Syrian Sanctions: Opportunities, Risks, and Changes under Executive Order 14312

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President Trump continued his flurry of sanctions actions with the recent revocation of the Syrian sanctions program. On June 30, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14312 “Providing for the Revocation...more

Goodwin

The Devil’s in the Details: Executive Order on Cybersecurity Reveals Administration’s Focus on AI-Cyber Convergence, Secure...

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On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144” (the “Order”). The measure...more

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Venezuela Update: June 30, 2025 (English)

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more

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Venezuela Update: June 30, 2025 (Spanish)

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more

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Venezuela Update: May 21, 2025 (Spanish)

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more

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Venezuela Update: May 21, 2025 (English)

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Navigating the New Steel and Aluminum Tariffs in the Construction Industry

President Donald Trump has announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports into the United States. This measure is part of the administration’s strategy to protect national security and address trade imbalances. ...more

Jones Day

Navigating Tariffs and Income Taxes and Transfer Pricing

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In this new trade landscape, it is more important than ever to coordinate customs and operational planning with income taxes and transfer pricing....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Cyber Defense Dialogues - 2025 NATO Summit Episode 2

Ahead of the 2025 NATO Summit, hosts Lokke Moerel and Alex van der Wolk speak with top experts and policymakers about hybrid threats, strategic defense, and the shifting digital battlefield. Episode 2: Cyber Frontlines:...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Tariff Turbulence: Navigating Force Majeure Risks in Texas Oil and Gas Contracts

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Upstream oil and gas producers and oilfield service companies are facing new uncertainties from recently imposed federal tariffs. In early 2025, the US expanded tariffs on a broad range of imports, suddenly increasing costs...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 68 - Why Geopolitical Risk Matters to Compliance and Legal Staff with Mark Nuttal and Chad Olsen

The hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 under the Biden administration—and the fallout that followed—along with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the ongoing war, have created inflationary...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Inside New Commerce Tech Restrictions: Mitigation Strategies

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security has issued the final rule that will determine how its Information and Communications Technology and Services regulations will work going forward....more

Mayer Brown

UK Weekly Sanctions Update - Week of March 31, 2025

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In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world....more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

As Priorities Change in Cross-border Criminal Investigations, Potential Targets Must Account for Possible Tolling of Limitations

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As the new administration shifts some criminal enforcement priorities, particularly relating to activities abroad, potential targets of cross-border investigations are re-evaluating their strategies and exposure to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

All Things Investigations: Terrorism Designations of Mexican Cartels Fundamentally Enhances Risk for All Companies

Welcome to the Hughes Hubbard Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations Practice Group’s podcast, All Things Investigation. In this podcast, host Tom Fox is joined by Jeremy Paner and Diego Durán de la Vega to discuss the...more

Bracewell LLP

Trump Administration Makes First Round of Cartel Foreign Terrorist Organization Designations with Focus on Mexico and Venezuela

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The US State Department has made its first round of designations pursuant to Executive Order 14157, “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,”...more

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Trump Administration Designates Eight Transnational Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated...

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Effective February 20, 2025, the Secretary of State designated eight Latin American organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and as Specially...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Back to the Future: Protection of Foreign Affairs Focus for FCPA Enforcement

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Under the guise of protecting the President’s authority to conduct foreign affairs, on February 10, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order pausing enforcement of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more

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Compliance, Enforcement, and Litigation Risk Considerations from President Trump’s Executive Order on Designating New Foreign...

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On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” The order directs the...more

Venable LLP

Some Additional Guidance on Trump EO Pausing Foreign Aid, but Many Questions Still Remain

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Among a bevy of executive orders issued by President Trump on the day of his inauguration (January 20, 2025) was the executive order (EO) Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid....more

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UK Government Publishes Guidance on Prevention of Russian Sanctions Evasion

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On 7 January 2025, the UK Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) published new guidance on how businesses should be preventing Russian sanctions evasion. This note provides a summary of this guidance to help you...more

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