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WWW.ALSTON.COM Financial Services & Products ADVISORY n APRIL 26, 2016 FDIC Adopts Final Rule to Amend How Small Banks are Assessed for Deposit Insurance The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today adopted a final rule that amends how established small banks are assessed for deposit insurance. The final rule, which affects banks with less than $10 billion in assets...
Portfolio Media. Inc. | 111 West 19th Street, 5th Floor | New York, NY 10011 | www.law360.com Phone: +1 646 783 7100 | Fax: +1 646 783 7161 | customerservice@law360.com Trial Pros: Alston & Bird's Doug Scribner Law360, New York (February 23, 2016, 1:02 PM ET) -Doug Scribner is a trial lawyer working principally in complex commercial litigation. Scribner is the former co-chairman of...
LAND USE MATTERS A publication of Alston & Bird’s Land Use Group April 2016 Land Use Matters provides information and insights into legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters, as well as new CEQA appellate decisions. Please visit the firm’s website for additional information about our Land Use...
WWW.ALSTON.COM International Tax ADVISORY n APRIL 15, 2016 New Temporary Regulations Continue the Fight Against Inversions On April 4, the Treasury released temporary regulations to attack (and prevent) inversions. Aimed at transactions designed to avoid the purposes of Sections 7874 and 367 and certain post-inversion avoidance transactions, the regulations take particular aim at...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Health Care / Health Care Litigation ADVISORY n APRIL 11, 2016 Update on the AseraCare False Claims Act Litigation – A Win for AseraCare and Health Care Providers By Dawnmarie Matlock, Wade Miller, Kimyatta McClary and Ankith Kamaraju In November 2015, we published a client advisory on the closely watched AseraCare litigation and its potential impact on the falsity...
CPSC Recall Snapshot A MONTHLY REVIEW OF CONSUMER PRODUCT RECALLS AND CIVIL PENALTIES ANNOUNCED BY THE CPSC April 2016 Welcome to the April edition of the Alston & Bird CPSC Recall Snapshot. Last month, Administrative Law Judge Dean C. Metry issued a ruling against the CPSC in litigation with Zen Magnets over its small-diameter magnetic balls. After a roughly two-week hearing in 2014,...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Financial Services & Products ADVISORY n MARCH 29, 2016 Interagency Guidance to Issuing Banks on Applying CIP Requirements to Prepaid Cards Interagency Guidance to Issuing Banks on Applying CIP Requirements to Prepaid Cards The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Unclaimed Property ADVISORY n MARCH 2, 2016 Pennsylvania Sues Delaware to Recover Unclaimed Checks Issued in Pennsylvania On January 26, 2016, the Pennsylvania Treasury Department filed a lawsuit in federal district court to recover unclaimed property paid to the Delaware State Escheator by MoneyGram Payments Systems, Inc., a Delaware-incorporated entity. MoneyGram issues both...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Federal Tax ADVISORY n MARCH 1, 2016 Private Foundations and Lobbying Loren E. Parks v. Commissioner, 145 T.C. No. 12 (2015) The Tax Court mostly ruled against a private foundation and its main contributor and foundation manager by approving the assessment of the private foundation excise tax on lobbying expenditures. However, the court gave them a partial victory as to one set...
Portfolio Media. Inc. | 111 West 19th Street, 5th Floor | New York, NY 10011 | www.law360.com Phone: +1 646 783 7100 | Fax: +1 646 783 7161 | customerservice@law360.com Trial Pros: Alston & Bird's Doug Scribner Law360, New York (February 23, 2016, 1:02 PM ET) -Doug Scribner is a trial lawyer working principally in complex commercial litigation. Scribner is the former co-chairman of...
WWW.ALSTON.COM International Tax ADVISORY n FEBRUARY 16, 2016 No Love Lost Between Taxpayer Topsnik and the Tax Court In late January, the Tax Court handed another loss to Gerd Topsnik (Topsnik v. Comm’r, Jan. 20, 2016). Topsnik last encountered the Tax Court in a 2014 case, in which he unsuccessfully argued that “informally” abandoning his green card relieved...
THE BANKING LAW JOURNAL An A.S. Pratt® PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2016 EDITOR’S NOTE: CORRESPONDENT BANKING Steven A. Meyerowitz VOLUME 133 NUMBER 2 THE PERILS AND PROMISE OF CORRESPONDENT BANKING Heath P. Tarbert and Liangshun Qian CHANGES NEEDED TO PROTECT THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR WHEN DEALING WITH THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA INDUSTRY—PART I Moises...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Financial Services & Products ADVISORY n NOVEMBER 18, 2015 FDIC Updates Brokered Deposits Resources On November 13, 2015, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published FIL-51-2015 to update an introductory letter and a frequently asked questions document (FAQs) on brokered deposits, which had been issued through FIL-2-2015 on January 5, 2015. In the press...
LAND USE MATTERS A publication of Alston & Bird’s Land Use Group January 2016 Each month, Land Use Matters will provide information and insights into legal and regulatory developments, primarily at the Los Angeles City and County levels, affecting land use matters, as well as new CEQA appellate decisions. Please visit the firm’s website for additional information...
WWW.ALSTON.COM International Trade & Regulatory ADVISORY n FEBRUARY 2, 2016 Cuba Update: Latest Changes Signal Expansion of Business Opportunities On January 26, 2016, as part of the Obama Administration’s ongoing efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Department of Treasury, Office of...
This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or downloaded or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYEE BENEFITS LAW Emily Seymour Costin and Emily C. Hootkins I....
WWW.ALSTON.COM Mergers & Acquisitions/Antitrust ADVISORY n JANUARY 27, 2016 FTC Revises Thresholds for HSR Filings and Interlocking Directorates On January 21, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual adjustment of the jurisdictional thresholds for pre-merger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act) and for...
WWW.ALSTON.COM International Trade & Regulatory ADVISORY n JANUARY 20, 2016 Implementation Day Arrives: The Promises and Perils of Iran Sanctions Relief On July 14, 2015, the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States), the European Union (EU) and Iran reached a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to restrict and ensure the...
WWW.ALSTON.COM Financial Services & Products ADVISORY n DECEMBER 15, 2015 Federal Reserve Releases Guidance on Shareholder Protection Arrangements On December 3, 2015, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System released Supervision and Regulation Letter 15-15, “Supervisory Concerns Related to Shareholder Protection Arrangements” (SR 15-15), offering...
regulation European privacy regulation moves forward by Jon Filipek and Richard Willis, Alston & Bird LLP The payments industry is no stranger to the increasing reach of regulation. With the EU Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions coming into force earlier this year, together with near-term final approval of the EU’s revised Directive on Payment...
