The community engagement interim final rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will likely be remembered as the Medicaid work requirement rule.

We are pleased to present the sixth edition of Insurance Focus, our quarterly publication from Norton Rose Fulbright’s Middle East insurance team.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has supported the expansion of the Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy, contributing to global efforts to strengthen protections for children from online harms.

No investigation, regardless of its importance, can be prioritised over an individual’s health and safety. Rather, the investigation needs to proceed in a manner that ensures, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of those involved.

The US Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, jointly with the FDIC, the OCC and the NCUA, in coordination with the IRS, has issued Advisory FIN-2026-A002 to advise financial institutions to be vigilant against fraud schemes and other suspicious or potentially criminal activities related to the unlawful employment of people without legal work authorization.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the SEC does not need to prove that investors suffered any financial loss in order to obtain disgorgement of a defendant’s net profits. The decision resolves a circuit split in the SEC’s favor and effectively closes off one of defendants’ key arguments for limiting or defeating disgorgement awards.

Lawdragon has named 22 Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide.

The First-tier Tribunal’s (FTT) decision in Chester Lettings Limited v HMRC [2026] UKFTT 614 (TC) provides a useful discussion of the relevant principles to be applied in determining the tax treatment of compensation payments made to companies.

The UK transfer of trade rules are intended to give a tax neutral outcome to intra-group transfers and reorganisations, and apply automatically when the relevant conditions are met.

The federal government has introduced legislation that will prohibit non-compete agreements in federally regulated employment.

The Global ABS conference has a habit of being the place where we take stock. Not just of what has happened over the last year, but of what quietly did not happen quite as expected. Solar ABS sits firmly in that second category.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised a syndicate of lenders on the financing for the acquisition of Equans Infra & Mobility B.V. by Aberdeen Investments and DigitalBridge.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Climate Impact Partners on its large‑scale afforestation and restoration project in Colombia and its funding arrangements with Aviva Investors.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has been recognized in the top five of Bloomberg Law’s 2026 Leading Law Firms list, which evaluates firms in four categories: financial performance, talent, growth and technology/innovation.

Please join our Norton Rose Fulbright construction team as they discuss managing risk in data center construction and development.

On 3 June 2026, the Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) published a new Guidance Note which provides an industry view on, and examples of, what should constitute a proper or improper purpose in relation to a request to inspect a company’s register of members under section 116 Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006).

The settlement of securities transactions—the process by which ownership of a financial instrument is transferred from seller to buyer and payment moves in the opposite direction—is undergoing one of its most significant transformations in decades.

On June 2, 2026, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) recommended that tariffs of either 10 or 12.5 percent be imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on, with limited exceptions, imports of all products that originate in 59 countries and the EU that the USTR has concluded have inadequate prohibitions on the use of forced labor.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s patent practices in Canada, Hong Kong and the United States earned recognition in the 2026 IAM Patent 1000, reflecting the firm’s work in patent litigation, prosecution and transactions across key global markets.