Corporate

  • March 27, 2025

    Target Settles Antitrust Claims Against Visa Over Swipe Fees

    Target Corp. and Visa have settled a yearslong antitrust dispute accusing the card company of being part of an illegal anticompetitive scheme that forced merchants to pay excessive fees when customers pay with credit or debit cards, according to a stipulation filed Thursday in New York federal court.

  • March 27, 2025

    Google, Apple Staff Want Out Of Testifying In FTC-Meta Case

    Current and former employees of Google, Apple, TikTok, X Corp., Snap and Epic Games asked a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to quash subpoenas seeking their live testimony in the Federal Trade Commission's upcoming antitrust trial against Meta Platforms, arguing their taped depositions make the burden of testifying unnecessary.

  • March 27, 2025

    German Paper Co. Can't Dodge $268M Duty Evasion Suit

    A German paper producer once again failed to escape nearly $270 million in unpaid duties and interest Thursday when the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that the company's various corporate mutations do not remove it from the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.

  • March 27, 2025

    Conrail Land Can't Go In Renewal Zone, NJ Court Says

    A New Jersey state appeals court has ruled that federal law bars Jersey City lawmakers from going forward with a redevelopment plan for local property owned by Consolidated Rail Corp.

  • March 27, 2025

    Pfizer Tops Pharma Tax Avoidance, Senate Dems Say

    Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer had no taxable profits in its largest market, the U.S., after booking all its income in jurisdictions including Puerto Rico, Singapore and Ireland, according to a Senate Finance Committee report prepared by panel Democrats that was released Thursday.

  • March 27, 2025

    Nu Skin Can't Avoid Distributor Dispute In Wash. Court

    The Washington Supreme Court said Thursday that Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. can't jettison a case in Washington state court and force product distributors to go to Utah to settle claims that the multilevel marketing company violated a Washington law against pyramid schemes, in a question that had split lower appellate courts.

  • March 27, 2025

    New Del. Claims Filed In Jenzabar Stock Warrant Battle

    Investors in a fund focused on higher education software company Jenzabar Inc., a company mired in years-old Delaware Court of Chancery battles over stock warrants dating to 2004, have filed an expanded, nine-count suit accusing the company and key officials of looting the fund and wrongly terminating their interests.

  • March 27, 2025

    PayPal Investors Drop Derivative Suit Over SEC, CFPB Probes

    Shareholders of PayPal voluntarily dismissed their derivative suit against the company's executives and directors accusing them of making false statements about PayPal's practices that allegedly led to federal investigations, saying the dismissal is proper since the defendants were not liable in a similar securities class action filed against them.

  • March 27, 2025

    Ex-Exec Doesn't Owe Holtec For Losses, NJ Appeals Court Says

    Holtec International and one of its divisions are not entitled to payments from a former employee for losses, a New Jersey appeals court said Wednesday in affirming a lower court ruling that a contract was unambiguous about profit sharing and made no provisions for splitting losses.

  • March 27, 2025

    FINRA Improperly Acts As Government Agency, 6th Circ. Told

    The owner of a consulting company has urged the Sixth Circuit to overturn a decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission affirming sanctions imposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for alleged securities fraud, arguing that FINRA never had jurisdiction over him.

  • March 27, 2025

    Palo Alto Networks Dodges $100M Cybersecurity Patent Case

    A California federal judge has found that Silicon Valley-based Palo Alto Networks Inc. didn't infringe a trio of cybersecurity patents, freeing the company from a lawsuit that had asked for at least $100 million.

  • March 27, 2025

    FCA Suit Alleging Unnecessary Spinal Surgeries Avoids Dismissal

    A Washington federal judge declined Wednesday to toss the state and federal government's suit alleging a hospital operator made millions of dollars by submitting false claims to Medicaid and Medicare for medically unnecessary surgical procedures.

  • March 27, 2025

    Costco Settles Listeria-Contaminated Chicken Wrap Claims

    Costco Wholesale Corp. has settled a putative class action brought by a Florida man who claimed he ate a chicken wrap contaminated with listeria from one of its stores and had to be hospitalized.

  • March 27, 2025

    Apple Says Its Affidavits Are Admissible In Google Case

    After an unsuccessful bid to intervene in the remedies phase of the Justice Department's antitrust case against Google, Apple is urging a D.C. federal judge to consider its affidavits from company executives as the court weighs the proper fix for Google's search monopoly.

  • March 27, 2025

    DOJ's Antitrust Unit Targeting Anticompetitive Regulations

    The U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force on Thursday aimed at eliminating state and federal laws and regulations that are hindering competition, with an initial focus on key sectors including housing, food and transportation.

  • March 27, 2025

    Intel CLO Earned $6.58 Million In 2024 Amid CEO Switch

    The executive vice president and chief legal officer of Intel Corp. earned nearly $6.58 million in total compensation in 2024, according to a new securities filing, which also discloses that Intel paid its departed CEO over $27 million as part of a separation deal.

  • March 27, 2025

    SEC Drops Defense Of Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Rules

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday it would no longer defend regulations requiring some of the world's largest corporations to publicly disclose the effects climate change could have on their businesses, walking away from an Eighth Circuit challenge to the rules that the agency's acting chair called "unnecessarily intrusive."

  • March 27, 2025

    Atkins Suggests He May Open SEC's Doors To DOGE

    Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Thursday appeared to welcome the potential arrival of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, while also pushing back on suggestions that his earlier votes as a Republican commissioner exacerbated the 2008 financial crisis.

  • March 27, 2025

    Mich Justices Restore Toss Of Packaging Co.'s Tax Appeal

    A Michigan packaging company's tax exemption appeal was properly dismissed by the state Tax Tribunal over a lack of jurisdiction, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled, overturning an appellate court decision.

  • March 27, 2025

    Life Sciences REIT Says Ex-Employee Stole Trade Secrets

    Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. filed suit against a former employee in Massachusetts federal court, alleging that he stole a trove of proprietary information as he was planning to leave the company.

  • March 27, 2025

    Senate Backs Bid To Nullify CFPB Overdraft Rule

    The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule aimed at limiting overdraft fees at large banks to $5, passing a Republican-backed measure whose U.S. House companion now awaits a vote.

  • March 27, 2025

    FCPA 'Purgatory' Frustrates White Collar Bar, Anxious Clients

    An abrupt pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement has created tension between clients eager to resolve investigations and their attorneys, who are having trouble reaching decision-makers at the U.S. Department of Justice and are more inclined to await further guidance from the government.

  • March 26, 2025

    IBM Can't Yet Ditch White Man's 'Reverse Discrimination' Suit

    A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday refused to throw out a white male consultant's suit alleging that IBM threatens to punish executives if they don't meet diversity goals, finding that, at least at this stage in the litigation, he's offered enough facts to support a "reverse discrimination" claim.

  • March 26, 2025

    Trump Sets 25% Tariffs On Imported Cars And Parts

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his intention to impose a 25% tariff on cars and car parts imported into the United States, continuing a trend of sweeping, aggressive trade actions that have defined his first two months in office.

  • March 26, 2025

    Feds Led Jury Astray About $175M JPMorgan Deal, Javice Says

    A lawyer for Frank founder Charlie Javice on Wednesday told a Manhattan federal jury that prosecutors have spent weeks misleading them about evidence purporting to show that she conned JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the now-defunct educational startup for $175 million, based on false information.

Expert Analysis

  • Assessing Gary Gensler's Legacy At The SEC

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    Gary Gensler's tenure as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair is defined by a record of commonsense regulation in some areas and social activism in others, and by increasing judicial skepticism about the SEC's authority to fulfill its regulatory, enforcement, administrative law and adjudicatory functions, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • 7 Steps To Sell Corporate Leadership On Privacy Compliance

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    In celebration of the 17th annual Data Privacy Day, compliance professionals shouldn't take no for an answer when they request funding and other support for their privacy initiatives — instead, consider new ways to get leaders on board, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Takeaways From DOJ Fraud Section's 2024 Year In Review

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    Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section’s recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.

  • 4 Employment Law Areas Set To Change Under Trump

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    President Donald Trump's second term is expected to bring significant changes to the U.S. employment law landscape, including the potential for updated worker classification regulations, and challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion that are already taking shape, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Recent SEC Actions Highlight Importance Of Filing Form D

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement action against three companies last month for failing to timely file Form D is an unprecedented step that should put an end to Regulation D issuers' views that filing these forms is a technical requirement or somewhat voluntary, says Patrick McCloskey at McCloskey Law.

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Recent Suits Show Antitrust Agencies' Focus On HSR Review

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's suit this month against KKR for inaccurate and incomplete premerger filings, along with other recent cases, highlights the agency's increasing scrutiny of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance for private equity firms, say attorneys at Willkie.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024

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    Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.

  • Private-Bidding Compliance Lessons From Siemens Plea Deal

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    Siemens Energy’s recent wire fraud conspiracy guilty plea shows that U.S. prosecutors are willing and able to police the private, domestic bidding market to protect the integrity of the competitive marketplace, and companies will need a robust compliance program to mitigate these risks, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.

  • Kansas Bank's Suit Could Upend FDIC Enforcement Authority

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    ​​​​​​​Should CBW Bank's federal lawsuit in Kansas challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s enforcement authority gain traction with a post-Chevron U.S. Supreme Court, it could have profound implications for the FDIC and the banking industry at large, says Jack Harrington at Bradley Arant.

  • Royal Canin Ruling Won't Transform Removal Jurisdiction

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Royal Canin USA v. Wullschleger means that federal district courts must now remand whenever an amended complaint excises grounds for federal jurisdiction — but given existing litigation strategy and case law trends, this may ultimately preserve, rather than alter, the status quo, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • End-Of-Year FCPA Enforcement Surge Holds Clues For 2025

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    The last three months of 2024 saw more Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement actions than any quarter in the previous four years, providing lessons for companies — even as a new administration raises doubts about whether this momentum will continue, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • What's Next For Accounting Enforcement After SEC's Big 2024

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration will likely continue to focus enforcement efforts on many of the same accounting and auditing issues that it pursued over the past year — but other areas, such as ESG, internal controls and cryptocurrency cases, may fall out of focus, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • PE Strategies To Manage Adjacent Portfolio Firm Conflicts

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    A variety of tools can mitigate potential risk for a private equity director sitting on the board of directors of multiple companies, including the disclosure of potential conflicts in fundraising documents to help mitigate risk under the securities laws, says Michael Kendall at Goodwin.

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