If Tuesday’s FTX hearing in bankruptcy court is any indication, one of the biggest legal battles to be fought in the wake of the crypto exchange’s collapse will be waged between competing concerns for transparency and privacy. Undoubtedly, this will be a hotly contested issue in the coming months.

The Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco points a spotlight on growing problems in the primary and secondary event ticketing markets. If consumers are clearly paying higher prices, suffering terrible market dynamics, and deeply angry about how these markets function, does antitrust law provide a solution?

Law schools at Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, and others have pulled out of the US News & World Report rankings. If this trend continues, will law students and the firms that hire them focus on a law school’s location as a selection factor even more than they do now?

The total number of global controlling-stake mergers and acquisitions terminated in a given year has dropped in each of the past four years. But there may be a shift in this trend depending on how the the remainder of 2022 plays out.

A new court ruling asserts that even in a sale-of-business transaction, noncompetes and nonsolicitiation agreements must be narrowly drawn, reasonable in geographic scope and duration, and designed to protect a legitimate business interest. Does this portend stricter scrutiny of restrictive covenants in business transactions?

Change is looming for public company climate disclosures, and companies should bear the SEC’s proposed rule in mind while drafting their FY2022 10-Ks. To get ready for the change and make that first move toward compliance, companies may want to take three steps to get ahead of the curve.

Bloomberg Law’s legal analysts are looking ahead to next year with Bloomberg Law 2023. These analyses provide data-rich, actionable perspectives on key issues shaping the practice of law and highlight what to expect across the legal landscape in the year ahead.