Corporate Transparency Act: Treasury Announces No Enforcement for Reporting Failures by US Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies and Further Rulemaking To Limit Application to Foreign Companies
Updated: March 03, 2025
On February 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury Department) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a press release confirming that the agency would not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement action against companies based on failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI) repo...
Perkins Coie Advises Pacira BioSciences, Inc. in Its Acquisition of GQ Bio Therapeutics
SEATTLE (March 3, 2025)—Perkins Coie is pleased to have advised Pacira BioSciences, Inc., an innovative biopharmaceutical company that develops non-opioid pain therapies, in its acquisition of GQ Bio Therapeutics GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company with a novel, high-capacity, local-delivery platform that makes genetic medicines more e...
What to Expect From the NLRB
Andrew and Richard spoke at the 2025 Labor and Employment Summit for Association of Corporate Counsel.
Washington Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Meal Period Penalty Case
In October 2024 we wrote about the Washington State Court of Appeals’ opinion in Androckitis v. Virginia Mason Medical Center, which held that the remedy for meal period violations includes three components: (1) payment of time worked during the meal period; plus (2) 30 minutes of pay as a penalty; plus (3) double damages on unpaid amounts as ...
Executive Order Calls for Sweeping Review of Government Contracts
On February 26, 2025, an Executive Order (EO) calling for a sweeping review of government contracts over the next 30 days and directing that contracts be terminated or modified to reduce overall federal spending or reallocate spending to promote efficiency and “advance the policies” of the administration. The EO also directs agencies to ...
February Tip of the Month: Federal Court Issues Nationwide Injunction Against Trump Executive Orders on DEI Initiatives
On February 21, 2025, a federal district court issued a nationwide injunction temporarily blocking the enforcement of President Donald Trump’s January 2025 Executive Orders (EOs) targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.The court’s decision suspends the EOs’ provisions: (1) requiring federal contractors and grantees to include i...
Robert F. McCauley
Arpita Bhattacharyya, Ph.D.
With a background in electronics engineering and biomedical engineering, Arpita Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., draws on her technical versatility and broad base of patent law experience to advise clients on emerging technologies, such as augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), artificial intelligence (AI), and digital health. Arpita also has extensive ex...
FERC Initiates Proceeding on Co-Location of Power Demand With Generating Facilities, Raising Issues That Will Reverberate Across Energy Industry
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued an order (Co-location Order) finding that the treatment of load that co-locates behind generating facilities’ points of interconnection with the grid in the PJM region appears to be unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential; PJM’s open access transmission tariff, ope...
A Vision Visionary
In this episode, Michael and Colin talk to inventor and professor, John Hetling, about his ground-up process for teaching the next generation of inventors, as well as his novel approach to addressing health issues through scans of the eye.