Are You Ready for What’s (EDGAR) Next?
Here’s a friendly reminder that the EDGAR Next transition is fast approaching. If your company has not yet begun preparations, we urge you to start planning now. As you may recall, on September 27, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules related to how filers access its Electronic Data Gathering, Analys...
Elliott M. Smith
Elliott Smith advises clients on a wide range of corporate and securities transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, ATMs, CMPOs, PIPEs, as well as spin-offs, subsidiary IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents clients in SPAC-related transactions, including back-end business combinations. Elliott helps companies prepare to go...
Perkins Coie Shortlisted in Several Categories by Managing IP’s Americas Awards
NEW YORK (March 4, 2025)—Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that the firm's Intellectual Property practice has been shortlisted by Managing IP's 2025 Americas Awards in multiple national and regional categories. The firm has been named to the "Firm of the Year" national shortlists in the Appellate, International Trade Commission, and Trademark Pro...
Sarah E. Ross
Food & Consumer Packaged Goods Litigation Year in Review 2024
Perkins Coie Releases Ninth Annual Food & Consumer Packaged Goods Litigation Year in Review.In 2024, class action filings against the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry reached a near high, with close to three hundred lawsuits filed. This year was notable for the wide variety of kind of claims at issue — natural, protein content, multi-func...
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Steven Avena
With extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting U.S., international, and foreign patent applications, Steven Avena provides comprehensive counsel to clients and foreign associates. Steven provides patentability and clearance analysis, develops targeted protection strategies for standards and products, and provides patent portfolio growth and...
Caroline Capili
Caroline J. Capili earned her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. While in law school, she interned for the Hon. Marcia A. Crone of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Corporate Transparency Act: Treasury Announces No Enforcement for Reporting Failures by U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies and Further Rulemaking to Limit Application to Foreign Companies
Last week, we reported that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) reinstated the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, with a new deadline for most companies to file their CTA BOI reports of March 21, 2025.However, on February 27, 2025, FinCEN issued a new press release announc...