Insights

New York’s Commercial Division continues to adopt changes emphasizing efficiency, innovation and agility in order to attract high-stakes complex commercial cases. The most recent initiatives involve promoting early dispositions of material aspects of cases, using technology during discovery and cracking down on perceived gamesmanship with respect to brief length.

Since 2014, the U.S. and EU have imposed increasingly hardened sanctions on Venezuela. To comply with these sanctions regimes, companies must first determine whether the transaction in question contains a jurisdictional nexus to the U.S. or EU and whether a sanctioned party is involved.