Response to the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") for feedback regarding the experiences of registrants and others in implementing the new internal control requirements under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX").
If approved by the SEC, the Nasdaq proposal will become a new Nasdaq listing Rule 5608 and the NYSE proposal will become new Section 303A.14 in the NYSE Listed Company Manual. Both proposals conform closely to the language in Rule 10D-1 with some enhancements. This Client Alert provided by Latham & Watkins summarizes the nuances in the stock exchange proposals that will apply to companies listed on each exchange.
The September 2017 amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations introduced a new scheme for pharmaceutical patent linkage litigation in Canada. That scheme is now much closer to the United States' (US) Hatch-Waxman scheme, but with remaining key differences that are explained in this chart.
Patent infringement lawsuits are unavoidably expensive, but there are alternatives to conventional cost-adding inclinations — adding an expert, taking one more deposition, or filing a sur-sur-reply. Explore five in-depth tips that will help you stay in your litigation budget and come home with a win.
This policy brief will inform you on ESMA details for investors and general counsel alike.
This is a sample indemnification agreement under which a company agrees to indemnify the directors and/or officers of the company or its subsidiaries.
This council has brought together experienced compensation committee chairs from Fortune 500 companies with key shareholder representatives, regulators, and other stakeholders to discuss ways to strengthen corporate governance in general—and compensation committee oversight in particular.
The author discusses a time when his company failed to comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Agency’s Process Safety Management standards. For years, he blamed the leadership of others; however, in this article he reflects on the role he played.
This article, developed by Latham & Watkins, covers the ruling in Crest v. Padilla I and II that found that the California Corporations Code Section 301.3 (SB 826) and Assembly Bill 979 (AB 979) were in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution. Read the article to learn more.
Each year, we save one session as the ACC Chair's Choice session. This year, the Chair has chosen to focus on the real influence of the in-house bar has.
This is a sample marketing services agreement.
Knowledge management is more than efficient organization information sharing. It requires permanent KM personnel, implantation of collaborative technology, buy-in from management, and the integration of KM processes into the daily organizational life. The more prosaic and "in the flow" KM initiatives are, the ore likely they are to succeed.
This Quick Counsel addresses The Right of Regret in the Brazilian Consumer Code which provides the Consumer the prerogative to withdraw from the purchase of a product or hiring a service that has not been held in a physical store.
Companies defined as “foreign private issuers” enjoy a number of important advantages under special SEC rules and accommodations.
In this guide, explore what corporate sustainability means, and practical guidance on how General Counsel and support and lead corporate sustainability efforts.
This is a sample power purchase agreement where the Company is the lessee or owner of the property and desires to make a portion of such property available to Provider for the construction, operation and maintenance of a solar powered electric generating project, and to purchase from Provider the electric energy produced by the project.
Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and enactment of the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations flowing from the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement introduced a new framework in Canada for the issuance of Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs).
This chart compare key aspects of the two regimes, Canada's and the EU's.
This article provides a brief overview of the case Airport Authority v Persons Unlawfully and Willfully Obstructing or Interfering with the Proper Use of the Hong Kong International Airport [2020] HKCFI 2743. This case is noteworthy because the Judge employed new technologies in order to effect substitute service during the proceedings, making room for the use of other technologies in civil litigation in the future.
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