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International Trade

  • May 19, 2025

    2 Menendez Associates Must Await Appeal Behind Bars

    The Second Circuit rejected bids by two of the businessmen convicted of bribing ex-U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to avoid prison pending their appeal on a blockbuster corruption conviction.

  • May 16, 2025

    FINRA Fines BTG Pactual Unit Over Lax AML Compliance

    A U.S. brokerage unit of Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual will pay $400,000 to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to settle claims that, among other things, its written policies didn't explain how it would monitor wire transfer requests to stay in compliance with anti-money laundering provisions.

  • May 16, 2025

    Despite US-China Tariff Pause, Business Pressures Persist

    U.S. importers dodged an effective ban on Chinese imports for now following the U.S. and China suspending higher tariff rates, but companies still foresee higher prices and supply-chain disruptions that will continue to stoke economic anxiety.

  • May 16, 2025

    Nadine Menendez Gets 3-Month Delay Of Bribery Sentencing

    A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday granted Nadine Menendez's bid for a three-month delay of her sentencing on bribery charges, but he said he would not postpone it any further.

  • May 16, 2025

    Trump Admin Settles Vaccine Contract Info Suit For $10K

    The Trump administration has reached a $10,000 settlement with a consumer advocacy group over allegedly withholding information about the government's billion-dollar contracts with companies that developed and manufactured the COVID-19 vaccine, including Pfizer and Moderna.

  • May 16, 2025

    1MDB Prosecutors Seek Leniency For Ex-Goldman Banker

    Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge for leniency when sentencing a former Goldman Sachs partner who cooperated in the investigation into the 1MDB scandal and testified at his former colleague's trial, citing his "extraordinary" assistance.

  • May 15, 2025

    ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Slashes Final Chopra-Era Fine From Over $2M To $45K

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday slashed an enforcement fine for Wise, a global money transfer fintech, by nearly 98%, shaving almost $2 million off a previous settlement for misleading customers about its fees and other costs.

  • May 15, 2025

    Paul Mitchell Buyers Near Cert. In Cruelty-Free False Ad Suit

    A California federal judge indicated on Thursday that he'd likely certify a Golden State class of Paul Mitchell customers who allege the hair care products maker deceptively concealed its animal testing in China while touting its U.S. products as cruelty-free.

  • May 15, 2025

    Polar Air Vendor Gets 2 Years For $32M Kickback Scheme

    The owner of a California aviation company was sentenced Thursday in New York federal court to two years in prison for paying Polar Air Cargo executives $4.4 million in kickbacks in exchange for lucrative contracts, as part of a $32 million scheme to enrich the cargo airline's C-suite and others, at the company's expense.

  • May 15, 2025

    Ga. Atty Gets 16 Months For Role In $1.3B Tax Shelter Scheme

    A Georgia attorney has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison and slammed with an $8 million bill after pleading guilty to helping orchestrate a $1.3 billion tax scheme involving fraudulent conservation easements.

  • May 15, 2025

    FTZ Holding Can't Stop Duty Refund Clock, Trade Court Rules

    The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Thursday that a cigarette distributor waited too long to seek out duty refunds on its product, explaining that products being held for several years in a foreign-trade zone did not prevent the statutory clock from running.

  • May 15, 2025

    Ex-Eletson Board Facing Fees In Ch. 11 Fight

    A New York bankruptcy judge Thursday said international shipping group Eletson Holdings can collect legal fees for its long-running fight against former board members and that he would consider new sanctions against parties Eletson says are interfering with its Chapter 11 plan.

  • May 15, 2025

    House Tax Bill's Foreign Rules May Finish Off Energy Perks

    House Republicans' mammoth tax bill proposes phasing out two popular clean electricity business tax credits, but additional restrictions on eligible development projects' foreign business ties could have the same effect as immediately repealing them.

  • May 15, 2025

    Battery Recycler Cites 'Green' Funding Uncertainties In Ch. 15

    Lithium battery recycler Li-Cycle asked a New York bankruptcy judge to recognize its Canadian insolvency, saying the current political climate has made investors wary of infusing money needed to tap a $475 million U.S. federal loan.

  • May 15, 2025

    AI Startup Perplexity Seeks $14B Valuation, And More Rumors

    Perplexity is in talks for a new funding round that would value the artificial intelligence startup at $14 billion, OpenAI is reworking a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft Corp. in order to free up its plans for an initial public offering, and Dutch power grid operator TenneT is considering selling a stake in its German division for up to $13 billion.

  • May 15, 2025

    Asset-Rich Menendez Associate Must Pony Up $1.8M Fine

    A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday refused to adjust the payment schedule for a $1.75 million criminal fine for a New Jersey businessman who was convicted of bribing former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, citing his plentiful assets.

  • May 15, 2025

    5th Circ. Says Samsung Must Face Battery Suit In Texas

    A divided Fifth Circuit panel has revived a man's claims against South Korea-based Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. in a suit over an exploding e-cigarette battery, finding the company's marketing to industrial companies in Texas is enough of a connection to the state to grant jurisdiction.

  • May 14, 2025

    NY Judge Skeptical Of Huawei's Pretrial Bid To Nix Charges

    A Brooklyn federal judge seemed skeptical of a push by Huawei Technologies and affiliates to dismiss charges from a criminal case alleging Huawei deceived banks and the U.S. government for years about its business dealings in sanctioned countries and conspired to steal intellectual property from U.S. companies.

  • May 14, 2025

    Smartmatic Says Fox News Deleted 'Incriminating' Texts

    Fox News and its executives — including Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan — deleted "critical" and "incriminating" text messages related to the network's allegedly defamatory broadcasts about Smartmatic during the 2020 election, the voting tech company said Wednesday.

  • May 14, 2025

    Canadian Pot Gear Exec Fights Feds' Bid To Exit Border Suit

    The Canadian CEO of a cannabis agricultural equipment company claims federal authorities have again illegally denied him entry into the United States, despite the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's recent assurance it had revoked a previous removal order while seeking to dodge his lawsuit in Seattle federal court.

  • May 14, 2025

    Tripwire Moves To End Explosives Suit Over Licensing Issues

    Tripwire South, its affiliate Tripwire Aviation and executive Ryan Morris urged a Pennsylvania federal court to dismiss Bizzell Corp.'s fraud and contract claims, arguing Bizzell's failure to obtain proper government licenses made delivery of military-grade explosives legally impossible.

  • May 14, 2025

    ITC To Probe Nokia Patent Claims Against Acer And Others

    The ITC has voted to investigate a patent complaint by Nokia against Acer, Asus and Hisense after the telecom giant accused them of infringing its patents with their video-capable laptops, desktop computers, handheld computers, tablets, televisions, projectors and components and module products.

  • May 14, 2025

    Lawmakers Line Up To Unwind Trump's 'Chaotic' IEEPA Tariffs

    Nearly 150 members of Congress have thrown their support behind 12 state attorneys general suing to halt the Trump administration's "emergency" tariffs, arguing they far exceed the statutory authority of a president.

  • May 14, 2025

    Harvard Researcher Charged With Smuggling Amid ICE Case

    Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed criminal smuggling charges against a Russian national and Harvard Medical School researcher who has been challenging her monthslong detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after she returned to the U.S. from Europe carrying frog embryos.

  • May 14, 2025

    Trump Scraps Biden-Era Restrictions On AI Chip Exports

    The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday it has rescinded guidelines on artificial intelligence technology exports issued under former President Joe Biden, saying it would take other steps "to strengthen export controls" on AI semiconductor chips.

Expert Analysis

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • Steel Cases Test Executive Authority, Judicial Scope

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    Lawsuits challenging former President Joe Biden’s order blocking the merger of Japan's Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel may shape how future administrations wield presidential authority over foreign investment in the name of national security, says Hdeel Abdelhady at MassPoint Legal.

  • What Contractors Can Do To Address Material Cost Increases

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    In light of the Trump administration's plans to increase tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, construction industry players should proactively employ legal strategies to mitigate the impacts that price increases and uncertainty may have on projects, says Brenda Radmacher at Seyfarth Shaw.

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • Foreign Trade Zones Can Help Cos. With Tariff Exposure

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    Companies navigating shifts in global trade — like the Trump administration’s newly levied tariffs on Chinese goods — should consider whether the U.S. Department of Commerce's poorly understood foreign trade zone program could help reduce their import costs, says James Grogan at FTI Consulting.

  • Critical Steps For Navigating Intensified OFAC Enforcement

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    The largely overlooked SkyGeek settlement from the end of 2024 heralds the arrival of the Office of Foreign Assets Control's long anticipated enhanced enforcement posture and clearly demonstrates the sanctions-compliance benefits of immediately responding to blocked payments, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.

  • Trump's Energy Plans: Climate, Data Centers, LNG And More

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    With a host of executive orders addressing climate and emissions policies, expanded energy development, offshore and onshore projects, liquefied natural gas and more, the second Trump administration has already given energy companies much to consider, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation

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    As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.

  • IP, Licensing, M&A Trends To Watch In Life Sciences This Year

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    2025 promises to continue an exciting trajectory for the life sciences industry, with major trends ranging from global harmonization of intellectual property to cross-border licensing activity and an increase of nontraditional financial participants in the mergers and acquisition space, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Cos. Must Prepare For Heightened Trade Enforcement Risks

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    Recent trade enforcement cases — including criminal prosecutions for tariff evasion — as well as statements from the Trump administration make it clear that companies must assess their risk profiles, review compliance programs and communication policies, and consider protocols for responding to subpoenas, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

  • Unpacking The Legal Foundation Of Trump's New Trade War

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    President Donald Trump's recent executive orders and proclamations regarding emergencies at the U.S. border are based on statutory powers enabling a president to address extraordinary external threats — and could be used to fend off legal challenges to the tariffs levied on Mexican and Canadian goods, says Chris Zona at Mandelbaum Barrett.

  • Trump's Energy Plans: Funding, Permits And Nuclear Power

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    In the wake of President Donald Trump's flurry of first-day executive orders focusing on the energy sector, attorneys at Gibson Dunn analyze what this presidency will mean for energy-related grants and loans, changes to permitting processes and developments in nuclear power.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • The Risk And Reward Of Federal Approach To AI Regulation

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    The government has struggled to keep up with artificial intelligence's furious pace, but while an overbroad federal attempt to adopt a more unified approach to regulating AI poses its own risks, so does the current environment of regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at Covington.

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