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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") launched the Procurement Collusion Strike Force ("PCSF") to detect, investigate, and prosecute antitrust crimes in government procurement, grant, and program funding, at all levels of government. This...By: Jones Day

ESG—Environmental, Social, and Governance—investing is attracting the attention of pension funds, hedge funds, sell-side analysts, large money managers, lenders and banks, and political interest groups and activists, all of whom can exercise their...By: Jones Day

Projects and Infrastructure - Ministry Releases Draft Basic Policies for IR Act - On September 4, 2019, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ("MLIT") released a draft Basic Policy ("Basic Policy") on integrated resorts...By: Jones Day

The Situation: On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") goes into effect, with enforcement by the California attorney general ("attorney general") to begin six months after the final implementation of regulations or on...By: Jones Day

Signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Fair Pay to Play Act will allow college athletes in that state to accept payment for the use of their name, image, and likeness. In response, the NCAA has threatened to bar colleges from postseason...By: Jones Day

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled that a New York-based affiliate of a global financial institution could be forced to produce documents for use in foreign proceedings even if those documents were held overseas. The...By: Jones Day

The Situation: The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") has provided details on the unprecedented use of arbitration to resolve its challenge to the proposed acquisition of Aleris Corporation by Novelis Inc. The...By: Jones Day

On July 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada (the SCC) granted leave to appeal from the Alberta Court of Appeal's decision in Capital Steel Inc v Chandos Construction Ltd, 2019 ABCA 32 [Chandos]. In a previous blog post, we considered the Alberta...By: Bennett Jones LLP

Prompt payment arrived for Ontario's construction industry October 1, 2019. The final stage of implementation of the changes introduced the Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017, came into force on October 1, 2019. Subject to a grandfathering period...By: Bennett Jones LLP

The Background: An assignee of loans owed by the Arrium Group sued certain officers of the Arrium Group, alleging they had made negligent misstatements or misrepresentations in drawdown and rollover notices issued prior to the assignment. Arrium's...By: Jones Day