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Limetree Court Denies Stay Pending Appeal of Order Approving 363 Sale
A recent order from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Court”) allowed a debtor to reopen a completed auction based on a significantly more attractive, but untimely, bid. The late bid was approximately three...
Knowing an Insider and Trading Is Not Necessarily "Insider Trading"
Co-coaching your daughters’ basketball team with your brother-in-law and later profiting from buying stock in your brother-in-law’s company is not, in and of itself, insider trading. This seems fairly obvious. On Monday, December 13, 2021, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton...
Decarbonising the LNG Industry: The Pressure is On
Click here to read this article in FlippingBook format Decarbonising Natural Gas and LNG Natural gas and liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) have long been hailed as one of the winners of the current energy transition when compared to other fossil...
The Risky Business of International Projects
On this episode of The Bracewell Sidebar, hosts Matthew Nielsen and Phil Bezanson talk with Assaad Nasr about the challenges that US lawyers face when they are working on international projects. Assaad is a deal lawyer, who previously served as...
USACE Changes Course on CWA Approved Jurisdictional Determinations
On January 5, 2022, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced that Approved Jurisdictional Determinations (AJDs) issued before August 30, 2021, are no longer valid for new permit decisions. USACE uses AJDs to make final determinations regarding the...
FTC Warns Use of "Full Legal Authority" on Companies That Ignore Log4j Risk
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a strong message to organizations in the wake of the Log4j security vulnerability: patch now or face regulatory scrutiny and potential legal action. In the notice issued last week, the FTC acknowledged and emphasized...
The Air Up There: SCOTUS Grants Cert in West Virginia v. EPA
On this episode of the Environmental Law Monitor, host Daniel Pope is joined by Brittany Pemberton to discuss developments related to remissions reductions under the Clean Air Act. Brittany is an associate in our DC office. She advises energy, oil...
Federal Court of Appeals Allows OSHA's Vaccination/Testing Rule for Employers with 100+ Employees to Go Forward
Late this past Friday, December 17, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order dissolving the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' stay that had blocked implementation of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). In other words, the...
CPRA Countdown: It's time to brush up on California's latest data privacy law
On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, a ballot initiative which enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the most sweeping consumer data protection law in the U.S. This...
Patch Up – Log4j and How to Avoid a Cybercrime Christmas
A vulnerability so dangerous that Cybersecurity and Infrastructure (CISA) Director Jen Easterly called it “one of the most serious [she’s] seen in [her] entire career, if not the most serious” arrived just in time for the holidays. On December 10...
Generic ESG Statements Remain Under Fire: Class Certification Granted for the Third Time as the Saga of the Goldman Sachs Securities Litigation Continues
Back in June, we analyzed the Supreme Court’s decision in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, which examined the extent to which a corporation’s arguably generic public statements could form the basis of a securities fraud action. Although...
Buyers and Sellers Should Plan for Close Scrutiny of North Sea Oil and Gas Deals
Over recent years, there has been an increase in M&A activity in the UK’s upstream oil and gas sector. The UK’s offshore industry has attracted this investment for reasons including the recent oil price recovery, a relatively lower risk profile...
Biggest Stories of 2021
On this episode of The Bracewell Sidebar, hosts Matthew Nielsen and Phil Bezanson look back at some of the significant regulatory and enforcement developments in 2021, including at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We...
Bankruptcy and Environmental Law: Overview and Latest Trends
Bracewell Partners, Mark Dendinger (Bankruptcy) and Jason Hutt (Environment, Lands and Resources) will address the intersection of bankruptcy and environmental law – two legal regimes that take very different approaches to liabilities. Mark and Jason will then address key environmental...
UAE Law Regarding the Protection of Personal Data
The United Arab Emirates joins Saudi Arabia by passing Federal Decree-Law No (45) of 2021 Regarding the Protection of Personal Data (“PPD Law”) to bring comprehensive data protection legislation to another country in the MENA region. Notably the PPD broadly...