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Hard on the heels of the muckle of anti-trust filings against the huge U.S. technology companies in the past few months, the United States Senate indicates that clamping down on Big Tech will be a priority for the new majority. A bill submitted last week sketched a new direction in anti-trust law aimed squarely at the Silicon Valley and Seattle corporate giants....By: Womble Bond Dickinson

The utility planning and investment cycle begins with planning to comply with Federal reliability standards, proceeds through Integrated Resource Planning reviews at the Commission level, then results in Siting Act proceedings to certificate the construction of new facilities. The utility’s investment in the new facilities is recovered through rate proceedings that follow the commencement or completion of construction....By: Womble Bond Dickinson

Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies, and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with the tacit support of the government....By: Womble Bond Dickinson

As with virtually every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted the chemical industry—from corporate transactions to supply chains to privacy concerns related to employees working remotely. A team of Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys addressed these issues in-depth at a Dec. 8 Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA) webinar....By: Womble Bond Dickinson

In Iowa, the public sector has a significant impact on the state’s economy. The state has proposed to spend over $70 million in capital construction projects in fiscal year 2021, and millions more to obtain other types of goods and services on behalf of state agencies......By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.

On this episode of In-house Roundhouse, Rob DelPriore, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Mid-America Apartment Communities, talks Womble Bond Dickinson litigator Mark Henriques about the challenges of integrating companies post-merger or acquisition. Rob led the Integration Team when Mid-America acquired Post Properties, Inc. That merger has made MAA one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the nation’s multi-family housing sector....By: Womble Bond Dickinson

In early 2020, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that contractors who have a mechanics’ lien on a residential property cannot recover attorneys’ fees from the sale of the homestead. We explained in a prior blog about how that Supreme Court decision severely limited a contractor’s effective remedies under the mechanics’ lien statute......By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.

We are now a good three months into the chaos brought about by COVID-19 and while many middle- and lower-middle market deals have been put on hold or even died, some M&A activity has continued unabated. That said, the deals and the associated risks...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

With the world still grappling with the outbreak of COVID-19, companies across a variety of industries have already suffered and anticipate further declines in their businesses and financial performances. This raises many new considerations for...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

While all of us are still firmly entrenched within the early stages of the global response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, I’m already thinking about “what’s next”. The land use world must roll on, after all, but it must do so differently and...By: Womble Bond Dickinson