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Health care reform guidance update

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2010

As September 23, 2010 approaches, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have continued to issue interim final rules for group health plans and health insurance coverage clarifying or implementing provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Chinese FDA unveils plan for regulatory reform

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 9 2013

The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration ("SFDA") announced a plan for regulatory reform ("Reform Plan") and is soliciting public comments through

Highlights of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

President Obama has signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (the "Act"). The Act partially averts the so-called "fiscal cliff," making permanent

Annual notices for ISOs and ESPPs due January 31, 2013

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2013

Each January, companies that grant incentive stock options (ISOs) are required to provide notices to current and former employees who exercised ISOs

FBAR filing deadline further extended to June 30, 2014 for certain employees and officers with signature authority over foreign financial accounts

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 9 2013

Generally, each U.S. person who has a financial interest in, or signature authority over, one or more foreign financial accounts during a calendar year is

SEC adviser examinations focus on Custody Rule compliance

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2013

The SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ("OCIE") found that approximately one-third of recent examinations that identified

The United Kingdom issues much anticipated consultation on guidance for the Bribery Act’s “adequate procedures” defense

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 24 2010

In April 2010, the United Kingdom passed the Bribery Act, which created several new anti-corruption offenses

The SEC proposes new disclosure requirements relating to short-term borrowings

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2010

On September 17, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new rules relating to disclosure of short-term borrowings by public companies

Second Circuit bars company indemnification of Sarbanes-Oxley “clawback” liability

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2010

In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that a company may not indemnify its CEO or CFO against liability under Section 304 (the “clawback” provision) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

CMS releases self-disclosure protocol for Stark violations

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2010

On September 23, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its long-awaited self-referral disclosure protocol (SRDP), which is effectively immediately