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The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has now published version 3 of the Site Operating Procedures (SOPs), aimed at protecting the construction workforce during COVID-19....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Last month, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a law repealing a provision of the Colorado Antitrust Act that prohibited challenging a merger under state law where the federal antitrust agencies did not also challenge the merger....By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

The new coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has now impacted nearly every business across the world, and poses numerous issues for companies and projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors and lenders....By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Like most organisations, the European Commission (the "Commission") and national competition authorities ("NCAs") have implemented remote working for the vast majority of their workforces. This presents unique and unprecedented challenges in merger...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

On March 31, 2020, the six Bay Area counties that previously issued the nation’s first Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders, amended and extended their prior orders to include stricter controls aimed to slow the spread of COVID-19. The new orders, which...By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

Dividend Timetable Revisions - On 25 March 2020, the LSE published Market Notice N07/20 which provides issuers with guidance in relation to payment dates under the 2020 Dividend Procedure timetable. This was in response to market conditions and...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

In a welcomed attempt to align their approaches, the antitrust enforcers of the European Competition Network (ECN) have published a brief joint statement on the application of competition law during the Covid-19 crisis....By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

It has been an active last week in the world of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). In addition to CFIUS’s publication of proposed regulations that would impose filing fees for parties’ submission of notices of...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

To further implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has issued proposed regulations that would require parties to pay fees in connection with...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

I. Einleitung - Weltweit verändern die Digitalisierung und der Einsatz moderner Technologien die Wertschöpfungsketten radikal und stellen mitunter sogar ganze Branchen auf den Kopf. Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt bemühen sich, mit der Entwicklung...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP