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25th Anniversary Version Of FMF Guidelines -- No Celebration For It Companies

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.10.09

On August 31, 2009, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency released a revised set of Guidelines for Foreign Military Financing of Direct Commercial Contracts and Contractor's Certification & Agreement with DSCA which are to be implemented no later than October 1, 2009. The principal changes focus on the difficult compliance issue of identifying non-U.S. content in the products and underscore DSCA's increasingly inflexible approach to that issue, including determination whether spares and post-delivery warranty or maintenance effort constitute non-U.S. content ineligible for financing, a problem that has been particularly troubling for companies furnishing information technology products to the Government of Israel under the FMF program.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 11.05.25

Five State Attorneys General Claim Sustainable Plastics Collaborations May Violate Antitrust and Consumer Protection Laws

On October 29, 2025, the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana (the “State AGs”) jointly issued letters to three sustainability groups asserting that their plastics recycling initiatives may violate state and federal antitrust and consumer protection laws....