Richard Manfredi

This update summarizes noteworthy enforcement activity from the first six months of 2026. We discuss significant federal policy and state legislative developments, including the current status of state false claims statutes. We also analyze the most consequential court decisions of the first half of the year.

Once a niche corporate form, the Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC) has become an increasingly significant feature of the corporate landscape, having been adopted by a number of prominent companies, including highly valued private issuers and established public companies. Until two days ago, however, the PBC statute had generated almost no case law on what PBC directors owe their stockholders in a sale of control. That has now changed.

From the Derivatives Practice Group: This week, the CFTC published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on affiliations among certain CFTC-regulated entities.

Gilead Tenofovir Cases , S283862 – Decided August 3, 2026

The first half of 2026 brought the second change of Enforcement leadership in under a year, the first comprehensive overhaul of the Enforcement Manual since 2017, and the first full-year enforcement statistics of the Atkins era — each reinforcing a consistent “quality over quantity,” back-to-basics enforcement philosophy.

This edition of Gibson Dunn's Federal Circuit Update for June 2026 summarizes the current status of petitions pending before the Supreme Court, Federal Circuit news, and recent Federal Circuit decisions concerning attorney's fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285, verdict forms, estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 351(e)(2), and claiming priority to a provisional application.

We are pleased to provide you with Gibson Dunn's Accounting Firm Quarterly Update for Q2 2026. The Update is available in .pdf format at the below link, and addresses news on the following topics that we hope are of interest to you:

With the Regulations now in force, parties have a detailed procedural framework for merger notification, absent since the introduction of the 2023 Competition Law.

Gorobets v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC , S287946 – Decided August 6, 2026

Gibson Dunn announces release of “Lexology Panoramic: Defamation & Reputation Management 2026 (USA).”