by Alesandra Greco | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog
On Monday, March 21, 2021, the Securities Exchange Commission released a 510-page proposal that would require U.S.-listed companies to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. This long-anticipated draft rule...
by Yuanchen Lu | Feb 10, 2022 | Blog
At the company’s annual Connect conference in October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was renamed “Meta,” as a better embodiment of the company’s future focus on metaverse. At the core of this ambitious plan to build a virtual universe is Meta’s VR...
by Alesandra Greco | Jan 17, 2022 | Blog
The Department of Justice has spent the second half of 2021 implementing policy changes and enforcement initiatives aimed at fostering a tougher approach towards white collar enforcement. More specifically, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco laid out three...
by Rachel Kesten | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog
Recently, Congress has introduced several antitrust bills that seek to tightly regulate Big Tech companies in everything from anticompetitive mergers to preferential treatment for their own products and services. Both supporters and opponents of the legislation have...
by Luke Goveas | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog
On December 17, 2021, the SEC announced a $125 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co., disposing of allegations that the bank failed to properly monitor and retain its employees’ work-related communications.[1] Pursuant to the settlement, JPMorgan admitted...
by James Pedersen | Dec 21, 2021 | Blog
The SEC has recently turned its attention towards regulating businesses structured as special purpose acquisition companies, or SPAC’s. An SPAC is a publicly-listed shell corporation that is organized for the purpose of collecting investments and then using those...
