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[TIPS] Record-Keeping. An Easy Compliance Win You Can’t Afford To Ignore (Podcast)
Recordkeeping may not be the most exciting part of trade compliance, but GTC instructor Arthur O’Meara has one word for what happens when companies get it wrong: draconian. On this episode of Simply Trade Tips, host Lalo Solorzano and Arthur tackle an often-overlooked part of import compliance: keeping the records you may need when Customs comes asking.
United States International
Global Training Center
Article
Which Hat Was He Wearing? The Legal Significance Of Corporate Capacity
In Corporate Woods 15, LLC v. West Bradford Corp., 2026 NY Slip Op 51642(U) (Sup Ct, Albany County Sept. 23, 2026), Justice Richard Platkin confronted that question in a dispute involving a century old, family-owned commercial real estate enterprise, multiple affiliated limited liability companies, and a proposed dissolution of a holding company that threatened to trigger a “flow down” liquidation of the underlying realty businesses in which the holding company was a member.
United States Commercial
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Farrell Fritz, P.C.
Article
Does The SEC Use Emails And Text Messages To Prove Insider Trading?
Yes, the Securities and Exchange Commission often relies on electronic communications, like emails, text messages and social media chats to prove insider trading. In fact, such communications can prove to be critical evidence in establishing some or all of the key elements of an insider trading prosecution: knowledge, intent, relationships and, in some cases, efforts to conceal or cover-up after-the-fact.
United States Commercial
Law Firm of David R. Chase, Esq.
Curated
CBP Can Now Void Importer Of Record Numbers For Inaccurate Form 5106 Data
On September 18, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began enhanced enforcement of importer of record (IOR) identity data on CBP Form 5106. CBP announced the enforcement program in a general notice published in the Federal Register. Accuracy of Importer of Record Data Submitted to CBP, 91 Fed. Reg. 53,627, 53,627 (Aug. 19, 2026). This notice states CBP’s enforcement position; it is not a new regulation and does not add new Form 5106 data elements. The enforcement includes immediate voiding of IOR numbers when CBP determines the data is inaccurate or incomplete. A voided number is “invalid for any purpose,” including entering merchandise.
United States International
BG
Braumiller Law Group, PLLC
Article
California’s COMPETE Act: The Looming Expansion Of California Antitrust Law To Single-Firm Conduct
California's COMPETE Act introduces a groundbreaking framework for prosecuting single-firm monopolization and monopsonization under state antitrust law, filling a significant gap in the Cartwright Act. How will businesses with substantial market power navigate this new enforcement landscape, and what distinguishes California's approach from federal Sherman Act jurisprudence?
United States Anti-trust
MB
Mayer Brown
Article
Can AI Trading Models Commit Insider Trading?
Fund managers are increasingly deploying large language models and other artificial intelligence tools capable of accessing and analyzing nonpublic information at unprecedented scale, raising pressing questions about how existing insider trading and material nonpublic information handling rules apply when the entity processing restricted data is not a human analyst but an AI model operating across vast datasets.
United States Commercial
SA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
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