Articles

01.19.21

Addressing the Security Risks of University Foreign Funding

Manatt partners Scott Lashway and Richard Hartunian and special counsel Matthew Stein authored an article for Law360 about the security risks associated with U.S. colleges and universities accepting foreign funding. In particular, the article discussess three things that higher education ...


10.08.20

An Intersection Between Ransomware and U.S. National Security: OFAC Speaks

Manatt partners Scott Lashway, Andrew Zimmitti and Richard Hartunian and special counsel Matthew Stein authored an article for Corporate Compliance Insights highlighting three key risks associated with facilitation ransomware payments. In the article, the authors discussed the difficulty of paying ...


05.10.19

Foreign Banks Should Remain Wary of U.S. Sanctions Laws

While major enforcement actions against foreign banks for U.S. sanctions violations appear to have subsided over the past few years, recent settlements of sanctions-related claims against three large foreign banks remind us that federal and state authorities continue to aggressively monitor ...


04.01.18

America’s Opioid Crisis

"The nation’s opioid epidemic claimed more than 42,000 lives in 2016, and experts fear it will get worse before it gets better. What can be done to combat this multifaceted threat to public health? This article looks at how the crisis began, reviews how four sectors have responded and ...


02.01.18

The National Opioid Epidemic: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Approach

On Oct. 26, 2017, Eric D. Hargan, acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced that, as a result of the opioid epidemic, “a public health emergency exists nationwide.” According to the CDC, from 1999 to 2016, more than 200,000 people died in the United ...