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Antitrust & Competition

Antitrust in the Trump Administration: New Landscape, Still Enforcing

A year into President Donald J. Trump’s term, the administration’s antitrust enforcement agenda has begun to take shape, with some moves that suggest more aggressive enforcement than is typically expected in a Republican administration. At the same time, Congressional Democrats have...

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Finance

Navigating the Bumps: A corporate partner tries to help other women find legal jobs and thrive

Alice Hsu, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, focuses on capital markets and corporate governance. Her family’s favored professions, however, were centered around medicine and engineering, leading Alice to wonder what her life would have been like had she followed one of those...

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Anti-Corruption

Lessons from a Record Year for Whistleblowers: It was also a big year for FCPA tips and fines—was your company listening?

Last year was noteworthy for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program. It included a record number of whistleblower awards; the first reported whistleblower award in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) case; a record year for FCPA tips; and a first-of-its-kind action...

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