Richard Manfredi

Join us for a 30-minute briefing covering several Executive Compensation practice topics. The program is the first in a new series of quarterly webcasts designed to provide quick insights into emerging issues and practical advice.

Since the recent explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public consciousness, numerous U.S. regulators at both the federal and state level, regulating a wide range of industries, have put a stake in the ground and declared it a priority to investigate potentially unlawful conduct involving AI systems and technologies. These regulators include, among others, the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and Human Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and as well as state Attorneys General. Their areas of concern and potential theories of liability include discrimination and bias in AI systems, particularly with respect to financial, employment, and health-related decisioning; antitrust/competition concerns, including regarding AI-driven price recommendations, variable pricing algorithms, and potential market dominance within certain AI-related industries; and protection of intellectual property rights. Companies involved in the development and deployment of AI systems should be aware of these regulatory concerns and thoughtful in their planning to reduce these risks, including in how they use, test, monitor, and market AI technologies.

Gibson Dunn has created a Presidential Transition Task Force to track and analyze key activities throughout the transition and into the early days of the Trump-Vance Administration and the 119th Congress. Through Gibson Dunn's Task Force, we plan to keep our clients and friends informed of notable developments, to explain certain transition resources and how they work, and to predict what the administration is likely to focus on in a variety of areas post-inauguration. This is the Task Force's first release. There will be a number that will follow.

Client Alert | November 15, 2024 From the Derivatives Practice Group: This week, the European Supervisory Authorities published a Decision

This edition of Gibson Dunn's Federal Circuit Update for October 2024 summarizes the current status of petitions pending before the Supreme Court and recent Federal Circuit decisions concerning willfulness, false advertising, claim construction, and doctrine of equivalents.

On November 4, 2024, Mayor Eric Adams signed into law the Safe Hotels Act (SHA), Int. No. 991-C, which regulates hotel operations through mandatory licensing, staffing, safety, and worker protection requirements.

In response to industry feedback, the SFC has refined the Guidelines, which now impose fewer regulatory obligations than the SFC originally proposed. Set out below is a key overview of the Guidelines.

Although there are some commonalities between investigative approaches across all jurisdictions, there are some features peculiar to individual countries.

Please join us for a 60-minute webcast where we will explore the common challenges facing U.S. businesses subject to the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD. We will delve into CSRD reporting approaches and considerations, the implications of the double materiality assessment, and the interplay of the CSRD with other reporting regimes and voluntary initiatives. This session is designed for U.S.-based companies expecting to report under the CSRD and will provide recommendations and practical insights to support in-house counsel, sustainability teams, and corporate advisors who are or may soon be preparing for the CSRD and the shift to mandatory sustainability reporting.

Client Alert | November 22, 2024 From the Derivatives Practice Group: The SEC announced that Gary Genseler will depart the agency on January