10/5/2026 5:57:37 PM Biotech Week Boston 2026: Takeaways from “Shaping the Future of Biopharma: Global Investment and Innovation in Established & Emerging Markets” Panel By Andrea Devoe At the LSX Congress USA during Biotech Week Boston in late September, Freshfields partner Andrea Devoe joined a panel on global biopharma...
10/5/2026 3:18:39 PM After Reorganization, Corporate Fraud Gets a Closer Look: New Enforcement Policies from DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division By Alessio Evangelista Timothy Howard Danny Grooms Daniel Stein Melissa Hodgman Kimberly Zelnick Daniel Cendan Matthew Haggans Alessandra Scalise Aedan Collins +7 more... Show less On October 1, 2026, Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud...
10/2/2026 11:45:37 PM SEC's CBIZ Order: Section 5 Enforcement and Meaningful Cooperation Credit By Melissa Hodgman Timothy Howard On September 28, 2026, the SEC filed settled charges against CBIZ for Section 5 violations related to the issuance of common shares in...
10/2/2026 1:45:07 PM California's COMPETE Act: A New Frontier for State Antitrust Enforcement By Andrew Ewalt Manish Kumar Morag Elwis Kara Reid Matthew Steyl +2 more... Show less On September 30, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1776, the Competition and Opportunity in Markets for a...
10/1/2026 9:18:07 PM FCPA Enforcement Priorities Continue to Drive Outcomes: An Update on Developments in the Last Year By Daniel Cendan Danny Grooms Melissa Hodgman Timothy Howard Daniel Stein Allison Kowalski Ian Maurer +4 more... Show less In remarks on September 30, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division,...
10/1/2026 3:54:37 AM Major Development for CIPA Complaints: California Legislature Passes SB 690, Eliminating Private Pen Register Claims Under CIPA By Megan Kayo Anna Gressel Christine Chong Madeline Cimino +1 more... Show less On August 28, 2026, both chambers of the California Legislature passed SB 690 and transmitted it to Governor Newsom, who has now signed...
10/1/2026 3:45:07 AM California’s End-of-Session Privacy Package By Beth George Christine Chong Noorie Chowdhury Justin P'ng +1 more... Show less California Governor Newsom continued his end-of-session legislative push by signing a fresh round of privacy legislation, expanding...
10/1/2026 3:30:38 AM Trump Executive Order Mandates Shift to "Super Intelligence" By Anna Gressel Beth George Nema Milaninia Andres Calzada +1 more... Show less On September 29, 2026, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO), "Inaugurating The Era of Super Intelligence." The order...
9/29/2026 9:06:37 PM Eleventh Circuit Upholds Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions By David Livshiz Jacob Johnston On September 1, 2026, the Eleventh Circuit held in United States ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC, No. 24-13581 (11th...
9/28/2026 4:54:07 PM Key Clauses: Termination By Timothy Harkness Peter Linken Lauren Kaplin Daniella Apodaca +1 more... Show less This post is the eighth in our series on navigating the landscape of US commercial contracts for international businesses. Here, we...
9/28/2026 4:21:43 PM Who Has the Last Word? A Guide to Integration Clauses By Timothy Harkness Peter Linken Lauren Kaplin Daniella Apodaca +1 more... Show less This post is the seventh in our series on navigating the landscape of US commercial contracts for international businesses. Here, we...
9/28/2026 2:06:36 PM Agentic AI and the Duty of Care: What the METR Report Means and Does Not Mean for the Boardroom By Ethan Klingsberg The foundation of the fulfillment of the duty of care is reasonable reliance on informed expertise. The most common source of this...
9/22/2026 2:01:37 PM Banking Agencies Propose an Overhaul of Third-Party Risk Management Guidance By David Sewell Alison Hashmall Nariné Atamian Taylor Richards +1 more... Show less On Friday, September 11, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...
9/18/2026 8:36:37 PM Hitting the 'Del' button: SEC Proposes to Rescind Rule 14a-8 and Fundamentally Reallocate Authority Over Shareholder Proposals By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman Elizabeth Bieber The SEC proposed rescinding Rule 14a-8, eliminating the federal framework through which shareholders may have a proposal included in a...
9/17/2026 8:42:07 PM From Science to Signals, Part II: What the SEC-FDA Cooperation Agreement Means for Life Sciences Companies By Melissa Hodgman Agnès Dunogué Meredith Kotler Nicholas Caselli Timothy Howard +2 more... Show less The SEC and FDA have formalized an emerging enforcement trend. We recently described the SEC’s evolving approach to insider trading,...
9/17/2026 8:30:37 PM EXAMS to IAs and BDs: “Talk to Us Before We Write About You” By Melissa Hodgman David Nicolardi The SEC's Division of Examinations (EXAMS) is the primary point of contact between the SEC and most investment advisers (IAs) and...