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This Interim Rule follows the Proposed Rule on filing fees published by the Committee on March 9, 2020...The Interim Rule also implements one of the last remaining changes to the CFIUS process initiated by the Foreign Investment Risk Review...By: Dechert LLP

Germany’s cabinet has approved draft legislation designed to tighten the country’s foreign investment control (“FDI”) regime. The draft bill pre-dates the coronavirus crisis but comes amid growing fears that non-EU investors will take advantage of...By: Dechert LLP

Fast Facts - United States - The COVID-19 pandemic has yet to slow U.S. merger enforcement, with deal reviews for Q1 2020 averaging 11.1 months in length, slightly below the 11.9 month average for CY 2019. - The U.S. antitrust agencies concluded...By: Dechert LLP

On April 8, 2020, Judge Leonard Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied an injunction requested by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to block Sabre Corp.’s $360 million acquisition of...By: Dechert LLP

The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed how merger enforcement regimes around the world are currently reviewing proposed transactions. Two weeks into the new environment, we now have a body of experience from which to assess how merger reviews are...By: Dechert LLP

On March 4, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), released a proposed rule to establish for the first time filing fees for CFIUS reviews of notices of...By: Dechert LLP

Under Section 413(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), ERISA’s three-year statute of limitations for fiduciary breaches and certain other violations starts to run when “the plaintiff had actual knowledge of the breach...By: Dechert LLP

The annual increases to the compensation limits applying to certain UK employment claims have now been published and will take effect in April 2020. An Order laid before Parliament will increase the maximum compensation which can be awarded by the...By: Dechert LLP

As the private equity industry matures, and the deal landscape becomes more competitive, private equity sponsors are becoming more prepared and capable of investing in sectors previously considered overly-regulated, requiring advanced chemistry or...By: Dechert LLP

The U.S. Treasury Department published a final rule on January 17, 2020, to implement changes to regulations regarding the authority and jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) (85 Fed. Reg. 3112, the “Final...By: Dechert LLP