Recap from our July 16 webinar: “Direct Selling and Good Corporate Governance in 2026” Most corporate governance presentations follow a familiar script: recite some best practices, note how they offer legal protection for companies and boards, and adjourn. In our recent webinar on good corporate governance, we set out to do something more bespoke. We spotlighted an industry that has...
Congress has made progress on fiscal year 2027 appropriations, but businesses should still prepare for another period of temporary federal funding. The House Appropriations Committee completed work on all twelve annual funding bills before the end of June, and three have passed the full House. The Senate has moved more slowly; a planned June markup of several appropriations bills was...
Earlier this month, we hosted a roundtable optimistically titled, “Bringing IPOs Back to Utah.” It was largely a local affair, with a mix of executives, trade association representatives, policymakers and investors. A main street crowd, but a savvy one. Dorsey, KPMG, and Zions Bank provided perspectives from the legal, finance and accounting side. We were also quite fortunate to host...
On May 19, the White House released a unique executive order outlining the Administration’s plan to promote fintech innovation. Given the complexity of existing financial regulatory frameworks, there is reason to be skeptical that this effort results in major changes in the short term. But in light of the broad directives, the banking and fintech communities should stay close to...
My colleagues published an excellent eUpdate on a number of trade developments this week. It’s been a lot, with USTR coming out with a slate of new 301 Tariffs following its investigation into forced labor related policies and practices, opening a new 301 investigation on intellectual property protection in Vietnam, adjustments to 232 duties and more. Here is a link...
Like many, I’ve found myself experimenting with AI to see if it would enable me to take on projects that are otherwise out of reach. I’ve had success in some narrow cases, but other times I’ve ended up in a rabbit hole to nowhere. My most recent project has landed somewhere in the middle. When USTR opened two Section 301...
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has been vocal about his desire to make IPOs great again. It would take a serious amount of rulemaking and potentially even statutory changes to reshuffle the mix of incentives and burdens that have inclined companies against going public in recent years. But if he is successful, even in part, there could...
On March 31, USDA announced that the U.S. Forest Service will relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, bringing roughly 260 positions and the agency’s top leadership to the Intermountain West. For Utah, a state with more than 8 million acres of national forest land and a roughly $9.7 billion outdoor recreation economy, this is a significant...
On March 26, the Trump administration issued an Executive Order titled “Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors” that represents perhaps the most significant operationalization to date of the administration’s campaign against DEI. The order requires federal agencies to incorporate new anti-DEI certification clauses into contracts, contract-like instruments, and subcontracts within 30 days, meaning the April 26 deadline is fast approaching....
The concept of a regulatory sandbox is becoming a familiar one. When a recent White House executive order laid out a comprehensive legislative framework for artificial intelligence, it included a call for Congress to establish federal regulatory sandboxes, without any further explanation. Just a few years ago, such a request might have been met with a confused stare. Now, the...
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