1/24/2025 4:50:01 PM California Attorney General Issues Legal Advisories on AI Compliance with State Laws By Beth George Sean Quinn Madeline Cimino On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released two legal advisories addressing how existing state laws apply to...
1/21/2025 9:26:03 PM Preparing for Political Risk in 2025: Contempt, Coordination, and Congressional Investigations in 2025 By Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Beth George Jessica Heller Loren Terry +2 more... Show less The second Trump administration begins with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and a conservative Supreme Court majority....
1/15/2025 9:51:49 PM Updates to Colorado Privacy Act Rules for Biometric Data, Data of Minors, and Procedures for Opinion Letters and Interpretive Guidance By Christine Lyon Christine Chong Jackson Myers The Colorado Attorney General’s Office recently approved amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act Rules (Rules) to clarify upcoming changes...
7/19/2024 3:05:06 PM Implementing an Effective Compliance Management System By Timothy Howard Ben Morgan Norbert Nolte Emily Knight Annika Kreis Nichole Chen Eva Noll +4 more... Show less The primary objective – and advantage to a corporate – of an effective compliance management system is that it might prevent a compliance...
6/7/2024 2:23:12 PM AI Investigations: First lessons for compliance programmes By Theresa Ehlen Janet Kim Sean Quinn Aaron Stanislawski Robert Barton Lea Babucke Christian Sosna Felix Müller-Eising +5 more... Show less Utilising AI systems means owning value and managing risks. Inadequate AI governance can give rise to a wide range of compliance threats,...
6/19/2023 1:35:55 PM Reliability of ESG ratings? How the EU plans to regulate ESG rating providers By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Natalie Pettinger Kearney Elisabeth Schemmer +1 more... Show less On 13 June 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for regulating ESG rating providers. This draft EU Regulation (the...
1/6/2023 11:04:22 AM German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act kicks off in 2023: Legal battlegrounds for implementation By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske The German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz; the Act) entered into force on 1 January 2023 for the...
10/11/2022 4:20:13 PM AML update: Germany needs to pick up speed By Alicia Hildner Daniel Travers Moritz Pellmann It is said to have been one of the hottest summers in Germany since weather records were kept - the heated atmosphere in the money...
7/7/2022 7:15:16 AM ESG investigations – new subjects, same means? By Christoph H. Seibt Norbert Nolte Daniel Travers Marlen Vesper-Gräske +1 more... Show less With the growing legal significance of ESG topics for corporate management the question arises whether ESG investigations should be...
8/19/2021 11:38:31 AM Dutch banks combine forces to combat money laundering and terrorist financing By Marcel Michaelis Alexander Glos Janina Heinz Anne Wellstein +1 more... Show less Combating money laundering and terrorist financing remains very much the focus of enforcement authorities worldwide. For example, the...
7/5/2021 12:08:43 PM Fast-forwarding German compliance practice: the effects of the new corporate human rights duties By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske The adopted German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act ('the Act') has attracted a lot of attention from the legal and business worlds. What...
1/19/2021 9:05:27 AM Freshfields hosted online panel on International Human Rights Day: “Human rights due diligence - What challenges do global companies have to face?” By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Mina Aryobsei Iris Hammerschmid Marius Scherb +2 more... Show less On the International Human Rights Day in December 2020, our German-speaking offices hosted an online panel discussion with key executives...