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Three weeks into the Biden Administration, businesses must prepare for significant changes in regulatory and enforcement priorities. Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Team summarizes the new Administration’s enforcement goals and priorities, contrasts those with the prior Administration’s focus, and forecasts the expected impact across various areas of enforcement.
The effects of new leadership at the EPA, SEC, and HHS
An increased focus on big tech, but will it be soft or sharp?
Continued focus on the COVID-19 pandemic with the CARES Act and PPP
Big Tech
Executive Summary
Espionage poses a threat to national security and the private property rights of Americans. The government should address the threat of espionage in a manner whereby the benefits of government actions taken to reduce it outweigh the costs of those actions. To aid in that goal, this policy analysis presents the first combined database of all identified spies who targeted both the U.S. government and private organizations on U.S. soil. This analysis identifies 1,485 spies on American soil who, from 1990 through the end of 2019, conducted state or commercial espionage. Of those, 890 were foreign‐born, 583 were native‐born Americans, and 12 had unknown origins.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and key officials in his administration appear to realise this.
Spooked by the ghosts in government’s BBBEE machine, the current leadership has in effect eschewed its empowerment mandate in some of the procurement plans for distributing Covid-19 vaccines.
This is a sad development.
Fears for the most undesirable elements in the BBBEE dispensation are informing real-time decisions that exclude legitimate black-owned businesses from much-needed opportunities.
A week ago, this journalist raised the matter on Twitter. It was a foolish decision. The matter elicited a fierce response, including spurious accusations of racism.
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Greenberg Traurig LLP issued the following announcement on Feb. 5.
Yosbel A. Ibarra and Hector D. Sanchez Fernandez, attorneys at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, were recently appointed to International Bar Association (IBA) committees, each to serve a two-year term from Jan. 2021 to Dec. 2022.
Ibarra, co-managing shareholder of the firm’s Miami office, was appointed as a member of the IBA’s Law Firm Management Committee Advisory Board. The committee’s mission is to be a leading global forum for the exchange of best practices in law practice leadership and management, according to the organization’s website.
Sanchez Fernandez, an associate in Greenberg Traurig’s Mexico City office, was appointed Secretary of the Compliance Subcommittee, which was recently created to assist the organization’s Anticorruption Committee with special projects related to compliance practices. The subcommittee will share best practices and provide regular communication of l