On October 15, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted 3-2 to adopt new rules on speculative position limits (the Final Rule). The Final Rule will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, but compliance dates vary for certain rules......
The FDIC, OCC, and FRB recently issued a final rule allowing banks to delay for two years the estimated impact on regulatory capital caused by the implementation of the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) methodology....
Transaction Structure - Once the company selects a potential outsourced manufacturing partner, it should design a transaction structure that reinforces its commercial expectations and the manufacturer’s contractual obligations.
Business factors typically drive many strategy decisions in terms of patent prosecution in foreign jurisdictions. Factors that influence these decisions might include the likelihood of foreign competition, the size of foreign markets, as well as foreign manufacturing and/or licensing strategies.
As we enter the final months of 2020, this is a time to reflect on a year of unprecedented challenges. Although Covid-19 changed our lives in many ways, it did not halt new legal developments in the life, health and disability areas.
CEP Magazine (October 2020) - LocalBitcoins, a Finnish peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace plagued by criminal transactions, has spent the past year bolstering its compliance functions after a study found that the marketplace processed the most criminal transactions of any cryptocurrency platform
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued final rules that significantly modify the framework that public companies and their auditors use to evaluate auditor independence, providing additional clarity for certain particularly difficult and recurring issues....
On October 12, 2020, the Resolution that reformed the General Rules applicable to Credit Institutions (the “Resolution”), issued by the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission (the “CNBV”), was enacted in the Federal Official Gazette... ...
Under the SECURE Act, 401(k) plan sponsors will be required to have a dual eligibility requirement under which an employee must complete either a one-year-of-service requirement (with the 1,000-hour rule) or three consecutive years of service where the employee completes more than 500 hours of se
