S&C Critical Insights

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Kamil Shields, a partner in S&C’s Litigation Group, Mehdi Ansari, Co-Head of the Artificial Intelligence Practice, and Litigation Associate Sabrina Solow discuss whistleblowing developments, including the proposed AI Whistleblower Protection Act.

They also compare how the current and prior administrations have approached AI through executive orders, and examine recent parallel cri...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Kamil Shields, a partner in S&C’s Litigation Group, Kyle Mach, a partner in S&C’s Antitrust Group, and Litigation Associate Sabrina Solow discuss the new whistleblower program established by DOJ Antitrust Division.

They start off with brief background on antitrust law and then discuss the new whistleblower program and how it reflects a change in the Antitrust Division’s approa...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, S&C Tax Co-Heads Isaac Wheeler and Davis Wang, along with Tax Counsel Bella Schapiro and Special Counsel Aharon Friedman, continue their discussion on The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. They dive into the policy debates driving the OBBBA changes to green energy and international tax, highlighting opportunities and challenges for taxpayers. They also set out areas that will be a prior...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, S&C Tax Co-Heads Isaac Wheeler and Davis Wang, along with Tax Counsel Bella Schapiro and Special Counsel Aharon Friedman, discuss the background, process and tax implications of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 

A preview of the conversation can be found in the Q+A below.

Isaac: Aharon, was there anything interesting about the timing of The One Big Beautiful Bill, maybe relative to...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, Litigation Partner Kamil Shields and Litigation Associate Sabrina Solow, discuss a range of whistleblowing developments.

They touch on the recent downward trend in SEC whistleblowing enforcement and contrast that against the opposite trend under other programs, in part driven by a growing focus on whistleblowers as a potential...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Eric Kadel and Sharon Cohen Levin, Co-Heads of S&C’s National Security Practice, Tom White, Co-Head of the Firm’s International Arbitration and Global Dispute Resolution Practice, and Litigation Special Counsel Andrew DeFilippis, provide an overview on supply chain enforcement and compliance.

They explore key enforcement risks stemming from recent tariffs and discuss the potential...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, and Litigation Partner Kamil Shields, discuss recent developments in False Claims Act (FCA) cases, especially in light of the current Administration’s focus.

Annie and Kamil provide background on the FCA and explain its role in investigations of and actions focused on alleged fraud in connection with government programs. They ...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, Alex Gross, a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group, and associate Sabrina Solow, discuss steps companies can take in the employment context to protect against disclosure of trade secrets.

They explore protections that can mitigate risk when an employee leaves, including electronic measures to limit or disable access to infor...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, Alex Gross, a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group, and associate Sabrina Solow, explore the interaction between trade secret litigation and non-compete agreements.

They discuss how non-compete provisions in employment contracts can help mitigate the risk of employees taking confidential information to competitors and the ch...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, Alex Gross, a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group, and associate Sabrina Solow, provide a background discussion on trade secrets. They explore how companies can find themselves involved in trade secret disputes and discuss the relevant statutory framework, including the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and the Defend Trade Secrets...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Jeff Scott and Julia Malkina, Co-Heads of S&C’s Securities Litigation Practice, discuss the upcoming November 6 oral argument in Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank and its implications for companies’ risk disclosures and potential litigation regarding those disclosures.  The issue before the Court is whether a company’s risk disclosures are false or misleading when they do not disclose ...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Samantha Hynes, a partner in S&C’s Antitrust Group, and Brad Smith, special counsel in the Antitrust Group, discuss the impact of the Federal Trade Commission’s final rule that made substantial modifications to the form used to report transactions requiring a premerger filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. The new form will require substantially mo...

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, S&C litigation partner John Hardiman discusses Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster’s recent ruling in Sarah Clement v. Apollo Global Management and its implications for controlling shareholders in M&A transactions. Despite the Delaware Chancery Court’s intense scrutiny of transactions involving controlling shareholders, the Court gave the controller a rare win and dismissed a com...