Written by Lexology on April 30, 2025
Since President Trump took office on 20 January 2025, he has issued a record number of executive actions that have generated substantial uncertainty across industries, unravelled alliances, and roiled markets.
The global business community and its legal advisers – both in-house and external – have had to make sense of the resulting turmoil. And, in some cases, they’ve been directly affected, like law firms that Trump has “EO’ed.”
Lexology PRO has sorted through the deluge of information in a series of articles examining Trump’s impact in six key areas:
- trade and customs, with his tariff-driven trade policy;
- ESG, with the gutting of landmark climate laws and fast-track approval for energy projects;
- financial services, with his crypto-friendly policies and consumer protection rollback;
- white collar crime, with the pause of FCPA enforcement;
- data privacy, with a new Federal Trade Commission chair eager to implement Trump’s policies; and
- employment, with federal agencies like the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in flux.
