Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 27 Jun 2022
We have been blogging the last few months about a flurry of significant SEC rule proposals. There has been much speculation regarding when the SEC…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 27 Jun 2022
A foreign (non-U.S.) company can be dragged unwillingly into a U.S. bankruptcy case if the bankruptcy court has “personal jurisdiction” over the…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 22 Jun 2022
Calls for improved regulation of the crypto market continue to gain momentum - including for the facilitator of the crypto market: stablecoins…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | European Union, USA | 21 Jun 2022
Corporate distress across key European markets rose to their highest level since August 2020, according to the Weil European Distress Index (WEDI)…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 21 Jun 2022
On May 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released two proposals, available here and here, aimed at combating "greenwashing"…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 7 Jun 2022
The Supreme Court unanimously held in Siegel v. Fitzgerald that a 2017 statutory amendment that increased U.S. Trustee fees violated the…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 7 Jun 2022
International Data Transfer Agreement ("IDTA"), which legitimises data transfers from the UK to jurisdictions other than the EEA (and that have not…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | USA | 1 Jun 2022
Joni Mitchell famously declared that, despite her having “looked at clouds from both sides now, [and] from up and down,” she really didn’t “know…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | United Kingdom | 27 May 2022
On 26 May 2022 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a new levy (the “Energy Profits Levy” or “Levy”) on the profits of oil and gas companies…
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 27 May 2022
In November 2002, the sinking of the MV ‘Prestige’ oil tanker, carrying 70,000 mt of fuel oil, and the resulting oil spill created one of the biggest…