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- DOJ’s update offers additional insights into its approach to evaluating corporate compliance programs. - The update places emphasis on compliance programs that are continuously improving, data driven and supported with sufficient resources and...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

A. Introduction and Key Take-Aways - The Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program provides a metric for independent third parties to use in assessing and certifying the progress of the approximately...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

- On April 16, 2020, the Chinese competition authority finally announced its conditional approval of Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox. - The Chinese SAMR approved the acquisition after a yearlong investigation largely focused on...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

- On April 21, 2020, Imagination Technologies, a U.K. based company producing graphics processing units used in 11 billion devices globally, was summoned to answer questions by MPs in relation to national security concerns. Lawmakers were alerted to...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

- On April 17, 2020, the CMA provisionally cleared Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo in light of the deterioration in Deliveroo’s financial position caused by COVID-19. - The CMA has provisionally concluded that Deliveroo’s exit from the market...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The recently announced dispute between BorgWarner Inc. and Delphi Technologies PLC relating to BorgWarner’s planned acquisition of Delphi may turn into one of the first cases of a contested mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction as a result of...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

(Houston) – Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has released its “2019 Energy Year in Review,” which examines the current state of the global energy market and highlights the energy matters with which the firm was involved last year across the...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) encouraged registrants to consider the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on their business and financial results, and companies responded with various levels of disclosure on...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

- As of March 17, 2020, the FTC and DOJ will accept only electronic submissions of HSR notifications (no filings accepted March 16, 2020). - Early termination of the HSR waiting period will not be granted for any HSR filing during this period. -...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, has spread rapidly throughout the globe since it first emerged in China at the end of 2019. As governments, businesses and individuals all take measures to protect against the potential public health...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP