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Headed into 2020, start-ups accustomed to easy venture capital (“VC”) dollars already faced leaner times, with VC funding having already cooled in Q4/2019. And then along came COVID-19... When you consider the shock waves this pandemic sent around...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

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

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

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

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

German employment law provides for a sophisticated system of employee representation. The employees' representative body on operational level is the works council (Betriebsrat). The works council is to be involved in decisions on staffing, social...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Opportunity Zone (or “OZ”) investment was hailed in 2018 and 2019 as the hottest and most innovative way of attracting significant private capital to distressed communities in the United States and its territories by offering significant tax...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP