by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 18, 2024
On July 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued critical new guidance (“the Guidance”) aimed at enhancing due diligence to prevent the diversion of Common High Priority List (“CHPL”) items to Russia. [1] A list of the...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 15, 2024
On July 15, 2024, Partner Paul Tuchmann authored the article titled, “‘Fraud in the Inducement’: Is It ‘Right To Control’ by Another Name, Or Is It Wire Fraud?” for the New York Law Journal. In the article, Paul discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to...
by Mallory Schowe | Jul 11, 2024
In a previous Wiggin and Dana LLP advisory, we addressed what constitutes a “foreign trust” under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).[1] We now explore the tax consequences of a foreign trust, as well as the differences between a foreign grantor trust and a foreign...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 10, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! Like the Court, itself, we’ll close out OT23 with Trump v. United States (No. 23-939), a highly consequential (and arguably consequentialist) decision on presidential immunity from criminal prosecution. As you all know by now, the Supreme Court,...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 8, 2024
Greetings, Court Fans! The Nine closed out OT23 with their so-called “clean-up conference” last Tuesday, issuing multiple GVRs in cases controlled by recent opinions and granting cert in five new cases for OT24. We’ll attend to some clean-up of our own with this...