Regulatory & Compliance

Anti-Corruption

Stephen M. Nickelsburg, Adam T. Klauder, Simone M. Peek | Clifford Chance

Medical device companies that do business in emerging markets face the prospect of great reward as well as great risk. Increasingly, one of the major risks is exposure to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") and similar international anti-bribery laws and regulations. A key...

International Trade

Zlatko ("Zack") Hadzismajlovic | McCarter & English, LLP

Editor: Please describe the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) authority to regulate export items under its International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) authority. Hadzismajlovic: The statutory authority comes from the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (AECA...

Labor & Employment

William C. Martucci, Kristen A. Page | Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The wage and hour litigation wave continues, and the essential areas of focus for corporate employers in successfully defending these actions is increasingly centering on a "back to basics" approach. Certainly, defense efforts in wage and hour litigation are sophisticated and nuanced,...