On August 18, 2026, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved by 3–1 vote the release of a proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, a tailored securities-offering framework for certain crypto-asset investment contracts. The proposal would exempt from full Securities Act registration (…)
On August 1, 2026, the annual amendments to Delaware’s principal business-entity statutes came into effect, following approval by the Delaware General Assembly and signature by the Governor on June 10, 2026. The package includes changes to the Delaware General Corporation (…)
In early August 2026, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issued a proposed rule updating anti-money-laundering and countering-the-financing-of-terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements for Board-supervised banking organizations, including state member banks, bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, and (…)
On July 27, 2026, Brazil filed a formal request for consultations with the United States at the World Trade Organization under the Dispute Settlement Understanding, and the request (WT/DS646/1) was circulated to WTO members on July 30 and became public (…)
On August 5, 2026, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2026-28, providing guidance on the permanent expansion of the employer credit for paid family and medical leave under the “Working Families Tax Cuts” (…)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed partially settled charges on July 20, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (No. 26-cv-13301) against Florida resident Zan Shaikh and his company Bright Vision Distribution LLC, d/b/a Mining (…)
A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $1.5 billion class-action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, resolving claims by a class of more than 300,000 writers who alleged that Anthropic used millions of digitized copyrighted books to train the (…)
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced on July 23, 2026 that it has returned to implementing targeted “Second Request” investigations to expedite merger review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. The Division simultaneously published a model timing agreement (…)
On July 20, 2026, the US Tax Court issued a consolidated opinion in Lewis v. Commissioner and McDougall v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2026-58, addressing how to value taxable gifts arising from the early termination of a residuary trust. The decision (…)
Two developments this week signal continued aggressive US merger enforcement notwithstanding a generally more permissive environment for technology M&A in the first half of 2026. Edwards and Genesis: record HSR penalty. On July 13, 2026, the DOJ, acting on behalf (…)