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AI Is Attracting Antitrust Regulatory Scrutiny

Gretchen L. Jankowski & Abigail L. Cessna

While some jurisdictions are enacting or proposing AI-specific regulation, many existing regulatory frameworks apply to new technologies, including antitrust. Companies may experience different potential antitrust risks depending on the type of AI technology and their use of that technology.

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Are Law Firms Ready for the Corporate Transparency Act?

Ross Aronowitz

With the beginning of a new year around the corner and the introduction of new compliance obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), many law firms are scrambling to determine how they will assist clients who may be subject to these additional regulations.

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The White House's AI Executive Order Has Teeth, But Does It Bite? Image

The White House's AI Executive Order Has Teeth, But Does It Bite?

Cat Casey

Packing more tricks and treats than a suburban soccer mom, this sweeping order was ambitious, to say the least, artfully seeking to thread the needle and balance fear and desire when it comes to the AI renaissance sweeping the globe. And yet, hidden within the body of the order lay something that might make this sweeping and ambitious order flop.

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EU's New Foreign Subsidies Regulation Creates Risk for Foreign Companies Image

EU's New Foreign Subsidies Regulation Creates Risk for Foreign Companies

Linda A. Thompson

Now, large companies doing business in the EU must report any financial contribution received from a government in a non-EU country in the last three years.

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Enhanced Oversight of Search Warrants and Title III Wiretaps

Harry Sandick, Bonnie Robinson & Thomas Kicak

Search warrants and wiretaps were once used primarily to investigate organized crime, drug dealing and terrorism. In recent years, however, prosecutors have employed these tools increasingly in the context of white-collar crime to the point where it is now commonplace.

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FIFA Decision Curtail U.S. Efforts to Police Foreign Commercial Bribery Image

FIFA Decision Curtail U.S. Efforts to Police Foreign Commercial Bribery

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

Heeding the U.S. Supreme Court's clear message that ever-expanding constructions of the general fraud statutes are out of style, the latest decision out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in the long-running FIFA saga has the potential to substantially curtail U.S. efforts to police foreign commercial bribery.

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Managing Regulatory Risks In Times of Hyper-Aggressive Enforcement

Trudy Knockless

Companies need to be proactive and super-responsive to investigators to manage regulatory risks in this area of hyper-aggressive enforcement, according to in-participants in a recent panel at ALM Global's General Counsel East in New York City.

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Restitution Rights for Victims of White-Collar Crime

Seth Farber, Marcelo Blackburn & Sarah Viebrock

However, when corporate misconduct rises to the level of a crime, and when that crime results in a federal criminal conviction, victims have an alternative: an order of restitution as part of the corporate defendant's criminal sentence. As discussed below, victims enjoy several strategic advantages in a restitution proceeding that they do not in civil litigation.

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SPAC Transaction Challengers Face Uphill Battle

Jay A. Dubow, Joanna J. Cline & Erica H. Dressler

Recent decisions by the Delaware Court of Chancery demonstrate that when a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transaction and the disclosures surrounding it are challenged, defendants may face an uphill battle to prevail on a motion to dismiss, especially where breach of fiduciary duty claims have been asserted.

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DOJ and States Open Antitrust Case Against Google for Monopolizing Internet Search Market Image

DOJ and States Open Antitrust Case Against Google for Monopolizing Internet Search Market

Jimmy Hoover

The U.S. Department of Justice and dozens of states opened their antitrust case against Google in Washington last month, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the internet search and related ad markets.

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