Insights
EPA’s Draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List Targets Microplastics and Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
Recent Developments for Directors — April 2026
Trump Administration Shifts Policy to Accelerate Access to Psychedelic Drugs for Mental Illness
Resource
The Latham FPI Guide
Updated guide includes the topics that are of most interest to foreign private issuers and their advisors when engaging in US capital markets transactions.
Latham in Focus Video Series
The Book of Jargon Series – Word of the Day®
The Book of Jargon® is a series of practice area and industry-specific glossaries published by Latham & Watkins.
Freemium
a pricing strategy that offers a basic version of a product to users for free with the goal of selling them additional features for a fee.
Gambit
a sports idiom from chess, used to describe a situation (i.e. an “opening gambit”) in which something is sacrificed at the outset to unsettle an opponent and gain an initiative right from the start.
2FA
acronym for Two-Factor Authentication.
Haircut
a discount off Par Value in selling a loan. Also a good way to prepare for a job interview.
MetaMask
a Cryptocurrency Wallet (Software) used to interact with the Ethereum Blockchain, and often used as a bridge to NFT apps to buy and sell ERC-20 assets.

