Todd J. Ohlms

1 week ago | openlegalblogarchive.org | Margaret Dale |Michael Hackett |William Komaroff |Joshua M. Newville |Todd J. Ohlms |Robert Pommer | +8 more

On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memorandum outlining the Criminal Division’s enforcement priorities and policies for prosecuting corporate and white-collar crimes in the new Administration. Later that week, Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, addressed the new policies in a speech at the SIFMA Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference.

Apr 24, 2024 | lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +14 more

Big fund-raising rounds and high valuations have some wondering whether the AI sector is in a bubble in the nature of the dotcom boom. As of this writing, OpenAI is valued at over $80 billion; Amazon added another $2.75 billion to its investment in Anthropic; and even some very early-stage startups, like France-based Mistral AI, have racked up hundreds of millions in venture-capital funding at valuations over a billion dollars.

Apr 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +15 more

2023’s excitement for generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompted the SEC to respond on multiple fronts – stump speeches, rulemaking, new exam priorities and sweeps and previewing potential enforcement actions. SEC Chair Gary Gensler raised concerns regarding potential conflicts and investor harm resulting from the proliferation of AI and warned that an AI-caused financial crisis is nearly unavoidable absent regulation.

Apr 1, 2024 | lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael R. Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +16 more

ESG continues to be a hot topic for 2024 for investors and regulators alike. The specific concerns investors and regulators have – and what they expect to develop over the coming months – differ, however, across jurisdictions, including because of the different maturity of existing regulation between the EU/UK and the US.