Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Antitrust scrutiny on the life sciences industry looms over deal activity Life sciences, particularly pharmaceutical and medical devices companies, remains a focus of the antitrust agencies. While parties may opt to test these new theories in court, companies should be ready for extended review periods and a skeptical FTC.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Meanwhile, leaders at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission and other competition authorities have spoken of the need to reconceive antitrust law and have voiced support for aggressive new theories about protecting even potential competition. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 25, 2024

Unlike whistleblower programs run by agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury, the Program does not offer financial incentives for reporting misconduct.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 27, 2023

3] I have been involved with this rule to some degree during the near-entirety of my 17-plus years with the Commission. I recall the many discussions on shareholder proposals that I had with the late Marty Dunn when I served on the Commission’s executive staff in the mid-2000s. Staff Legal Bulletin No. Staff Legal Bulletin No.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 9, 2024

Heading into an election year, companies may continue to find themselves caught in the domestic culture wars and pressured to take positions on divisive social and political issues. The Federal Trade Commission is scheduled to release its updates to the Green Guides as part of ongoing regulatory efforts to combat greenwashing.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 1, 2024

2 The law amends the domestic statute criminalizing bribery of federal officials, Section 201 of title 18 of the United States Code (“Bribery of Public Officials and Witnesses”), to include a new subsection (f) titled “Prohibition of Demand for a Bribe.” 1 If enacted, the U.S. 6 How Far Does FEPA Jurisdiction Extend? . 31 CFR § 1010.605.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This mid-year update provides an overview of the major developments in federal and state securities litigation in the first half of 2022: I. Filing And Settlement Trends. Summary of Trend Cases—Core Federal Filings 2018 – June 2022. . We have already seen many notable developments in securities law this year. Cochran , No.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This type of rule, known as “ comply or explain,” , is common in both self-regulatory organizations like Nasdaq and in federal regulations. The commission also reiterates that government approval of an SRO’s rule change “does not convert private conduct into state action.”. In 2021, the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (“ SEC ”) adopted new rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “ Advisers Act ”) that will significantly impact private fund advisers (the “ Final Rules ”). share classes with different liquidity terms so long as all investors have the ability to elect). On August 23, 2023, the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 24, 2022

Internationally, the Antitrust Division has formed a working group with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Canadian Competition Bureau, the New Zealand Commerce Commission and the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). International Agencies Put Supply Chains on Notice Against Collusion (Feb.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2024

Against this backdrop, 2024 will be the biggest election year in global history, with more than 60 countries (including the US and the UK) going to the polls for presidential, legislative and local elections. 2] For 2024, many market observers are hopefully forecasting interest rate cuts by the end of the year.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 22, 2023

SIGNIFICANT LEGAL AND REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS IN 2022 SEC’s proposed climate-related disclosure rules: On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed expansive climate-related disclosure requirements in a proposing release that, if adopted, would require U.S. More than 15 U.S. insurance market.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In March 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule that would require publicly traded companies to provide investors with various climate-related disclosures (the Proposal). [1] As articulated by the Supreme Court, the MQD limits an agency’s statutory authority. at 2610 (citation omitted).

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 9, 2023

It would not directly affect credit unions, US branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations, or the non-US operations of foreign banking organizations. The release of the Capital Proposal was marked by significant dissents by principals of the FDIC and Federal Reserve.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 30, 2024

Agency action has become an increasingly prevalent form of regulation, and Chevron deference contributes to its utility in serving the policy goals of presidential administrations. 5] decision, different degrees of deference have been accorded to different types of utterances, even ones by a single agency. Mead Corp. [5]

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MARCH 20, 2023

This post will consider only the New York district attorney’s likely charges and those that the special counsel might assert in federal court. The New York Indictment We all know this as the “hush money case” in which Donald Trump allegedly directed $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a porn star, to keep her quiet on the eve of the 2016 election.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 21, 2024

In 2023, leadership of the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice maintained an aggressive approach to merger enforcement, investigating and challenging transactions on the basis of a broad range of theories of harm articulated in the agencies’ newly issued 2023 Merger Guidelines.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 11, 2022

some federal and state elected officials and enforcement officials recently have raised concerns with whether ESG-related initiatives involving competitors can violate the antitrust laws. Federal developments in U.S. In the U.S., In certain EU jurisdictions and the U.K., State developments in U.S.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 18, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump’s DOJ and FTC transition team appointments and public short list of candidates to run the agencies indicate that antitrust enforcement in the Trump Administration will most likely mirror recent Republican administrations, which have tended to be less interventionist than Democratic administrations.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Supreme Court next term of Securities and Exchange Commission v. The majority opinion reasoned that this remedy could not be distinguished from damages awarded in common law fraud cases, and therefore a jury trial in federal court was required if requested by defendants. 1] Coffee’s article assessed the prospects in the U.S.

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