On Monday, BIS announced in an “interim final” rule (a top contender for the best oxymoronic regulatory phrase ever) imposing export controls on Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak as well as on tarnhelms, the predecessor technology to the invisibility cloak. Actually,…
Back in August, we detailed the sad story of Production Products, a small family-run business in Maryland that sent OFAC into a tizzy and received a $78,5000 fine because, heaven forfend, the company had never heard of the SDN list…
If you are attending BIS Update 2015 and would like to get together for some free food and drink, please drop me an email at [email protected]. I have some invitations for a reception being held at Bryan Cave on the…
An article that appeared last Friday in the Wall Street Journal suggests that at least one U.S. company is providing the Chinese government with access to proprietary U.S. source code as a condition for access to the Chinese market. What…
An unfortunate issue for publicly traded companies that file voluntary disclosures is what seems to be an increasing trend: plaintiffs’ lawyers specializing in derivative shareholder suits circling the company looking for a kill. This seems to be particularly true if…