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This client alert analyses the primary Employer risks, arising out of the construction of major hydropower projects in emerging market countries, funded by equity contributions and senior-secured, limited-recourse, project level, debt financing...By: King & Spalding

Over the past several weeks, the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has shaken global markets and caused widespread disruption to businesses throughout the world. As the virus continues to spread around the globe, many companies are faced with the...By: King & Spalding

On Friday afternoon, January 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Violation to the state of California demanding that the state stop imposing abortion coverage mandates on...By: King & Spalding

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, the most important retirement legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006. One of the most significant features of...By: King & Spalding

On December 20, 2019, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the “SECURE Act”) was signed into law. The SECURE Act implements new rules for creating and maintaining retirement plans. Plan sponsors should consider and...By: King & Spalding

On Friday, January 10, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission issued new guidelines for the agencies’ review of vertical mergers. Vertical mergers involve the combination of firms operating at different levels...By: King & Spalding

When the discussions are finished, the negotiations are concluded, and the contract is signed, the real work begins on a capital project. Thousands of cubic yards of concrete, miles of wiring and pipe, and tons of steel—all of it has to be procured,...By: King & Spalding

On December 18, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate is unconstitutional but remanded to the district court to assess whether the rest of the ACA can stand...By: King & Spalding

The move by some employer plans to a “reference-based” pricing model has created a need for healthcare providers to develop a strategy to confront payment challenges that these plans create. A prevalent model of reference-based plan in use in many...By: King & Spalding

The International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) has just released its Report on “Resolving Climate Change Disputes through Arbitration” (the “Report”). The long-awaited Report is the result of almost two years of work by the ICC’s Task Force on...By: King & Spalding