Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights December 27, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit reaffirms that a plaintiff must plead detailed facts demonstrating that at least half of directors could not have exercised disinterested business judgment in responding to a shareholder demand On December 26, 2018, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in a shareholder derivative action that alleged that Disney’s ... December 14, 2018 Articles & Books The Guide to M&A Arbitration: United States Davis Polk partner Frances Bivens and Vannin Capital LLC Managing Director E. Alexandra Dosman authored the United States ... November 20, 2018 Client Update Newsflash: FTC Hearings 5, 6 and 7 on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century Through the first two weeks of November, the FTC convened the fifth, sixth and seventh of its Hearings on Competition and ... November 20, 2018 Client Update SEC Lays Out Roadmap for Resolving Illegal ICOs In a pair of settled enforcement actions involving initial coin offerings that the SEC deemed to be illegal unregistered s... November 1, 2018 Client Update Chinese Arbitration Court Recognizes Bitcoin as Property Protected by Law On October 25, 2018, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (the “SCIA”) published a case analysis detailing ... October 16, 2018 Client Update CFIUS Pilot Program Implements FIRRMA Reforms Targeting Certain “Critical Technologies” and Requiring Mandatory Declarations The Treasury Department has issued temporary regulations establishing a pilot program to implement two provisions of the F... September 14, 2018 Client Update Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Opening Session The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection kicked off yesterday. FTC Cha... July 18, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit Holds That Section 10(b) Reaches Domestic Purchases of Unsponsored ADRs and That the Supreme Court’s Morrison Decision Does Not Preclude Claims Against Issuers Arising Out of Such Purchases On July 17, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision holding that an overseas company with unsponsored ADRs trading in the Unit... June 14, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit Clarifies Delaware Demand Futility Standard in Derivative Case On June 13, 2018, the Ninth Circuit determined that where a shareholder of a Delaware corporation challenges a routine boa... June 12, 2018 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court Further Limits Tolling in the Class Action Context in China Agritech v. Resh The Supreme Court Holds that American Pipe Tolling Does Not Apply to Subsequent Class Actions; Clarifies that Five-Year Pe... Load More
December 27, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit reaffirms that a plaintiff must plead detailed facts demonstrating that at least half of directors could not have exercised disinterested business judgment in responding to a shareholder demand On December 26, 2018, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in a shareholder derivative action that alleged that Disney’s ...
December 14, 2018 Articles & Books The Guide to M&A Arbitration: United States Davis Polk partner Frances Bivens and Vannin Capital LLC Managing Director E. Alexandra Dosman authored the United States ...
November 20, 2018 Client Update Newsflash: FTC Hearings 5, 6 and 7 on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century Through the first two weeks of November, the FTC convened the fifth, sixth and seventh of its Hearings on Competition and ...
November 20, 2018 Client Update SEC Lays Out Roadmap for Resolving Illegal ICOs In a pair of settled enforcement actions involving initial coin offerings that the SEC deemed to be illegal unregistered s...
November 1, 2018 Client Update Chinese Arbitration Court Recognizes Bitcoin as Property Protected by Law On October 25, 2018, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (the “SCIA”) published a case analysis detailing ...
October 16, 2018 Client Update CFIUS Pilot Program Implements FIRRMA Reforms Targeting Certain “Critical Technologies” and Requiring Mandatory Declarations The Treasury Department has issued temporary regulations establishing a pilot program to implement two provisions of the F...
September 14, 2018 Client Update Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century: Opening Session The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection kicked off yesterday. FTC Cha...
July 18, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit Holds That Section 10(b) Reaches Domestic Purchases of Unsponsored ADRs and That the Supreme Court’s Morrison Decision Does Not Preclude Claims Against Issuers Arising Out of Such Purchases On July 17, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision holding that an overseas company with unsponsored ADRs trading in the Unit...
June 14, 2018 Client Update Ninth Circuit Clarifies Delaware Demand Futility Standard in Derivative Case On June 13, 2018, the Ninth Circuit determined that where a shareholder of a Delaware corporation challenges a routine boa...
June 12, 2018 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court Further Limits Tolling in the Class Action Context in China Agritech v. Resh The Supreme Court Holds that American Pipe Tolling Does Not Apply to Subsequent Class Actions; Clarifies that Five-Year Pe...