The Market Participants Division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on December 19, 2025 issued CFTC Letter No. 25-50 (the Letter) providing that it will not recommend enforcement action against an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a report focused on what it characterized as concerning trends related to Medicare Part B claims submissions for skin substitutes, i.e., skin grafts. Skin substitutes have become
In September 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) took steps to crack down on anticompetitive employee non‑competes even as the FTC abandoned the Biden Administration’s efforts to broadly ban them by rule. As a first step, on September 4, 2025,
On September 15, 2025, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations implementing key provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act relating to Roth catch-up contributions. The final regulations focus primarily on requirements relating to the
Last month, we posted an update describing Florida’s investigation into whether the CDP and the Science Based Targets Initiative are facilitating unlawful collusion among financial institutions and investment services to use an environmental “scoring system” to make investment decisions. On
On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced its intention to postpone by two years the effective date of the final rule that it adopted on August 28, 2024 which adds registered
Florida’s Attorney General announced an investigation on July 28, 2025 into whether the CDP (formerly known as the Climate Disclosure Project) and the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) have violated consumer protection or antitrust laws by “coercing companies into disclosing
The FTC is designating July as “Made in America Month,” and manufacturers in all industries should understand the restrictions they face when marketing their products as produced in the US. The Trump Administration’s tariffs will drive manufacturing further onshore and
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memorandum establishing long-awaited guidance for the investigation and enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).[1] The guidance was a direct result of President Trump’s February 10
On June 9, 2025, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law Senate Bill 951 (the “2025 Act”). Unlike California’s AB 3129, which was vetoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2024, the passage of the 2025 Act is the culmination
