Going Beyond Borders

In an increasingly integrated global economy, companies are looking outside their boundaries to capitalize on foreign possibilities. However, with the appeal of new markets comes a complicated network of corporate rules that differ greatly from one country to the next. Navigating the complexities of cross-border corporate operations necessitates a thorough awareness of various regulatory systems. […]

Antitrust in the Age of AI

The development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered civilization into a new era of technological curiosity and corporate integration. “Generative AI” is a type of AI that allows machinery to create new material rather than solely assess or change current data. Using models trained on massive quantities of data, generative AI may generate material—such […]

ESG and Energy Reform: Holding Ourselves Accountable

In 2014, the Onion published this headline: “Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever.” The satirical report sharply criticized how most countries, at the time, were prone to overlooking the clean energy alternatives readily available to them in favor of the established oil, gas, and coal industries that made up […]

SEC’s New Theory – Shadow Trading

Insider trading is a broad and murky area. However, now, the SEC has complicated matters with the introduction of a new theory — shadow trading. Unlike insider trading, where a person trades in the stocks of a company in which they have MNPI (material non-public information), shadow trading involves trading in an economically linked company […]

Senate Bill 54: California takes one step further into sustainable finance

This October 8th, 2023, Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, signed into a law the Senate Bill n°54, or SB 54. The law will come into effect in March 1st, 2025, and aims to promote sustainable finance through diversity in venture capital (VC) companies by empowering historically underrepresented communities. Similar to the California Equal Pay Pledge […]

Can Generative AI Be An Inventor?

Generative AI has evolved significantly through the integration of machine learning algorithms, allowing systems to create content, models, and solutions autonomously based on learned patterns and data. Can AI be an inventor? The Federal Circuit said no in its decision Thaler v. Vidal , denying a researcher’s claim of AI as the inventor of two patents. […]

Are There “Defects” in the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule?

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s rule for share repurchase disclosure modernization (“Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule”) on October 31, 2023, stating that the “[r]esponse to uncertainty about matters of low probability or low magnitude should be markedly different from those of high probability […]

Acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft

After a wait of nearly two years since its initial announcement of the deal, Microsoft finally acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion on October 13, 2023 after receiving a nod from the U.K. regulators. This acquisition is likely Microsoft’s strategy to boost its product Xbox Game Pass, which is a membership-based service. However, the deal […]

The Game of Chips?

As tensions escalate, the US has taken steps to stop chipmakers in the country from selling their semiconductor products to China. In order to ensure that obtaining the raw material used to produce the chips is hard, the government has made a few updates to the rules. Also, there is a tab on forty other […]

Chrome’s “Sandbox”: Corporate Advertisements and Consumer Privacy

In 2020, in the midst of existing tensions between consumer privacy and corporate profit,  Apple seemed to take a major step in the field of digital rights—on the side of the consumers, for once. The tech giant’s primary search engine, Safari, was reconfigured to automatically block all third-party cookies. It became the second browser to […]