On December 4, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other DOJ officials participated in the annual ACI FCPA conference in Washington DC, outlining key principles to corporate enforcem...

Buried (again) in a sprawling defense spending bill is an amendment to Section 16 of the Exchange Act that would extend insider reporting obligations to foreign private issuers, adding a ...

On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced amendments to its Rules Relating to Investigations and Rules of Practice.  The amendments are aimed at ...

The Delaware Court of Chancery pauses a proposed continuation fund transaction following a sovereign wealth fund’s allegations that the sponsor engineered a conflicted, below-market sal...

This week the Takeover Panel published amendments (RS 2025/1) to the Takeover Code in response to its consultation (PCP 2025/1) on the application of the rules to dual-class share structu...

On December 1, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued an Enforcement Advisory clarifying that CARB will not take enforcement action against entities that do not post and s...

On 3 November 2025, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission published two circulars on the licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms. This client update identifies the ...

The OCC released new Bank Secrecy Act examination procedures to reduce regulatory burdens for community banks, continuing its efforts to streamline anti-money laundering compliance obliga...

In Hyalroute Communications, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal dismissed an application for an interim anti-suit injunction to restrain a creditor from commencing Cayman winding-up proceeding...

In this issue, we discuss, among other things, the SEC Division of Examinations’ exam priorities for 2026, and a recent FINRA enforcement action against a wholesale distributor of inves...