The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has published its final “BitLicense” rule for virtual currency businesses, as announced by outgoing NYDFS Superintendent Lawsky i...
The SEC, which has recently been investigating workplace agreements out of concern that they may impede whistleblowing activity protected by the Dodd-Frank Act, announced yesterday its fi...
On December 10, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that to obtain an insider trading conviction against a tippee, the Government must prove that the tippee knew b...
On July 17, 2014, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published its proposed comprehensive regulatory scheme for virtual currency businesses, called “BitLicense....
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has defined, for the first time by a federal appellate court, a key statutory term in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”...
Continuing a flurry of recent enforcement activity under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has brought criminal charges again...
