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Sep 26, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Gene Markin |Hannah Laming |Grace King |Alex Prochaska
As a Rhode Islander, I am a big fan of our former Governor and now Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo. She has always had her eye on the ball of the rapidly developing data privacy and cybersecurity risks and threats to national security. She is showing her continued commitment to data privacy, cybersecurity, and the safety of U.S. consumers through a new proposed rule prohibiting the sale or import of connected vehicles that include component parts from cyber adversaries.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Gene Markin |Hannah Laming |Grace King |Alex Prochaska
Skip to main content September 26, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 270 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found. Trending News Watch Now: Impact of the 2024 Proxy Season on Off-Season Engagement Print Mail Download />i Facebook Twitter Linkedin Pinterest Reddit Facebook Messenger Email Digg Print X Buffer Flipboard On Sept.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Hannah Laming
Non-financial misconduct (“NFM”) within the financial sector has posed significant challenges for the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) for several years. The FCA handbook prescribes that regulated firms must assess and certify to the FCA, at least annually, that senior individuals and those performing regulated activities meet the relevant standards of fitness and propriety to be approved to perform those roles.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Hannah Laming |Grace King
Non-financial misconduct (“NFM”) within the financial sector has posed significant challenges for the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) for several years. The FCA handbook prescribes that regulated firms must assess and certify to the FCA, at least annually, that senior individuals and those performing regulated activities meet the relevant standards of fitness and propriety to be approved to perform those roles.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ann Robinson |Hannah Laming |Daniel G. Berick |John F. Lushis
Effective August 9, 2024, a new Maine law has streamlined the application process for obtaining a license for the wholesale or retail sale of liquor. This will be especially helpful for any bar or restaurant seeking to obtain an “on-premise liquor license,” which is required by the state in order to sell hard liquor (referred to as “spirits” under Maine law), beer, and wine at the establishment.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Hannah Laming
The UK and US enforcement agencies have been actively pursuing insider dealing (“insider trading”, in US parlance) since the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The UK and US have different securities enforcement regimes, but both have seen recent developments expanding the scope of conduct that can be prosecuted.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Hannah Laming |Daniel G. Berick |Grace King |Malak Abbas
The UK and US enforcement agencies have been actively pursuing insider dealing (“insider trading”, in US parlance) since the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The UK and US have different securities enforcement regimes, but both have seen recent developments expanding the scope of conduct that can be prosecuted.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
squirepattonboggs.com | Hannah Laming |Daniel G. Berick |Malak Abbas |Grace King
The UK and US enforcement agencies have been actively pursuing insider dealing (“insider trading”, in US parlance) since the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The UK and US have different securities enforcement regimes, but both have seen recent developments expanding the scope of conduct that can be prosecuted.
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May 22, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Tom Haystead |Graeme Slattery |Rebecca Jane Heath |Hannah Laming
BackgroundAs discussed in our client alert in March, the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Act 2024 passed through Parliament in February 2024 and introduced a new corporate offence into the Commonwealth Criminal Code for a failure to prevent foreign bribery, based on an equivalent offence in the UK's Bribery Act 2010 (Bribery Act). The offence will apply where an associate of a corporation has committed bribery for the profit or gain of the corporation.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Hannah Laming
I attended Nick Ephgrave QPM's first public speech as director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) last night. It was engaging and his ideas for modernisation should be viewed optimistically. The director presented his aspirations for the SFO and the key takeaways as I saw them are set out below. Collaborator of ChoiceThe director wants the SFO to be a collaborator of choice for agencies in the UK and the US.
