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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Snehal Desai |Liisa M. Thomas
Join us for an insightful journey from pre-deal preparations topost-closing integration. Gain actionable strategies to ensure yournext deal is secure and compliant.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Liisa M. Thomas |Snehal Desai
SM Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton More Sheppard Mullin is a full service Global 100 firm with over 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1927, companies have turned to Sheppard Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the US, the firm’s clients include more than half of the Fortune 100. Many expect that deal activity will increase in 2025.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Snehal Desai |Liisa M. Thomas
Many expect that deal activity will increase in 2025. As we approach the end of the first quarter, it is helpful to keep in mind privacy and data security issues that can potentially derail a deal. We discussed this in a webinar last week, where we highlighted issues from the buyer’s perspective.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Liisa M. Thomas |Snehal Desai
Many expect that deal activity will increase in 2025. As we approach the end of the first quarter, it is helpful to keep in mind privacy and data security issues that can potentially derail a deal. We discussed this in a webinar last week, where we highlighted issues from the buyer’s perspective. We recap the highlights here: Take a Smart Start Approach: Often when privacy “specialists” are brought into deals, it is without a clear understanding of the goal of the deal and post-acquisition plans.
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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Liisa M. Thomas |Jonathan Meyer |Kathryn Smith |Snehal Desai
SM Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton More Sheppard Mullin is a full service Global 100 firm with over 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1927, companies have turned to Sheppard Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the US, the firm’s clients include more than half of the Fortune 100.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Liisa M. Thomas |Jonathan Meyer |Kathryn Smith |Snehal Desai
In the waning days of the Biden administration, the FTC published an update to its COPPA Privacy Rule. The status of this update, however, is unclear. The revisions to the rule were posted on the FTC website prior to the Trump administration, but had not yet been published in the Federal Register. Trump’s Presidential Memorandum freezing pending federal regulations means that it has not yet been published. And publication is the next step towards it going into effect.
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Liisa M. Thomas |Snehal Desai |James O'Reilly
The Ninth Circuit continued the pause on California's SB 976 (Protecting Our Kidsfrom Social Media Addiction Act) as of late January 2025. The lawwas signed by Governor Newsom in September 2024,and challenged by NetChoice shortly thereafter. A federal judge first enjoined the law until February 1, 2025. Thecase continued in the courts, and most recently the Ninth Circuitblocked the law until April of 2025. At thattime, it will examine substantively whether the law infringes freespeech rights.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Snehal Desai |Liisa M. Thomas
[co-author: James O'Reilly*]The Ninth Circuit continued the pause on California’s SB 976 (Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act) as of late January 2025. The law was signed by Governor Newsom in September 2024, and challenged by NetChoice shortly thereafter. A federal judge first enjoined the law until February 1, 2025. The case continued in the courts, and most recently the Ninth Circuit blocked the law until April of 2025.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Snehal Desai
Skip to main content July 23, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 205 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Snehal Desai
New York’s governor recently signed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act. Although signed, the law will not be effective until after the New York Attorney General creates implementing regulations. The law is aimed at protecting children under 18 from social media companies’ “addictive feeds.” Addictive feeds are defined to include platforms and services that recommend content based on information from the user’s activity or device.
