As investors become more interested in incorporating sustainability into investment portfolios, many project proponents find that incorporating ESG into infrastructure planning provides a “leg up” in securing investors and financing.
On April 17, 2019, Kathleen Kraninger, President Trump’s appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, delivered her first major address at the Bipartisan Policy Center since taking on the role on December 6, 2018.
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the launch of Managing Automotive Compliance, a regulatory, auditing, and consulting service that will help auto industry clients manage their regulatory needs.
Schiff Hardin LLP advised I-Bankers Securities, Inc. as managing underwriter in Proficient Alpha Acquisition Corp.’s initial public offering of 10 million shares, raising $100 million with an over-allotment option of $15 million.
Schiff Hardin advised Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: WTFC) on the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire STC Bancshares Corp., the parent company of STC Capital Bank, which operates five banking offices located in the communities of St. Charles, Geneva, and South Elgin, Ill.
The DC Circuit handed down an opinion in Sierra Club v. EPA last month that tossed the Sierra Club’s challenge of a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule from the Obama Administration.
Arent Fox Associate Emily Leongini was quoted in the Hemp Industry Daily article, “Restaurant CBD sales are booming, but new liability concerns keep cannabis producers from cashing in,” published on June 10, 2019.
The 2019 edition of Legal 500 US has rated 49 Arent Fox LLP attorneys as national leaders in their field. In addition, 15 of the firm’s practice areas were ranked among the best in the country.
Thomson Reuters recently sat down with M. Scott Peeler to discuss his role in advancing diverse talent, driving inclusion, and helping to implement the Mansfield Rule’s internal target of 30% diverse talent slates for all leadership positions at the firm.
Schiff Hardin LLP is proud to announce that the firm and three of its attorneys have been ranked in the eighth edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.
The US Copyright Office recently considered a federal right of publicity law which, if enacted, would help to create a rule that can be applied more uniformly to alleged infringements.
The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), issued a final rule that added five recently developed or developing technologies that are essential to the national security of the United States to the Export Administration Regulations’ (EAR) Commerce Control List (CCL).
The Determination of Need (DoN) Program of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Department) recently signaled its intention to end a decades-long moratorium on new nursing home beds in the Commonwealth with the release of proposed DoN guidelines for approval of new long-term care beds.
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, the DC City Council passed Mayor Bowser’s $15.5 billion FY2020 budget with a second unanimous vote on both the FY20 Local Budget Act and the FY20 Federal Portion Budget Request Act.