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While much of the environmental bar was focused on the Waters of the U.S. rulemaking, on December 11, U.S. EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed the new hazardous waste pharmaceutical rule.

Privacy - Wherefore Art Thou?

Let’s face it – over the last 20 years or so, we have come to embrace, celebrate, and depend completely on electronic communications. What is more, we keep reaching out to grasp onto yet more ways to communicate, be it through Alexa (who just may be listening in on everything we do), our appliances, or whatever else is the internet-of-things gadget du jour.

President Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Opportunity Zones

President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that allotted additional federal resources toward the Opportunity Zone program. Specifically, the Order establishes the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, chaired by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, which will help streamline applications for communities to qualify for the investments.

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Concordant Crossroads: Regulation and Innovation in the Automotive Industry

Recently, Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute along with co-sponsors Foley & Lardner LLP and Ballard Spahr LLP, hosted the “Concordant Crossroads” summit in New York City. The esteemed keynote speaker, panelists and moderators provided deep insights into the unique and wide-ranging disruptive forces shaping the modern mobility industry.

ACA Strike-Down: Salvaging the BPCIA via Severability

Justice Reed O’Connor’s recent decision, Texas et al. v. U.S. et al., to strike down the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional not only threatens to dismantle health coverage for millions of Americans and protections for people with pre-existing conditions, but the decision could also invalidate the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) of 2009, which was included in the ACA

Michigan’s New Minimum Wage and Sick Leave Laws

On December 13, 2018, Michigan’s governor signed into law two bills affecting employers in Michigan: a minimum wage law and a paid sick leave law. Versions of the laws were originally adopted in September 2018, when the Michigan legislature took advantage of a state process allowing it to adopt proposals that would otherwise be on the ballot in an election.

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International Trade: A New Dawn for North American Trade

Contents Foreword Market Intelligence How Foley Can Help Additional Insights Click here to download the PDF. Foreword The business community, lawmakers...

2018 Midterm Election Results

After a long, hard-fought, and often bitter campaign, the parties battled to a partisan draw. As expected, Democrats took over the House of Representatives. Democrats also flipped a number of Governors’ mansions, but lost some of their high-profile targets.

2018 Private Equity Industry Overview

We have assembled a research report detailing recent legislation and regulation, the effect it is expected to have on private equity markets, and the way participating firms operate and structure themselves. We have also included a collection of timely articles published by Foley attorneys whose practices focus on counseling the financial industry.