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The uncertainty of the COVID-19 crisis and its resulting economic effects continue to make each stage of an M&A transaction complicated. At each stage of a transaction, buyers and sellers should determine how they both define and allocate risk...By: Burns & Levinson LLP

On May 1, 2020, the City of Philadelphia allowed certain construction projects to resume. By an Executive Order signed April 29, 2020, the City announced that the following categories of projects were permitted to resume construction activities on...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

The American Financial Services Association (AFSA) recently filed an amicus brief in Maine federal court in support of the motion for judgment on the record filed by the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) in CDIA’s lawsuit seeking a...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

Many clients have asked about the state of federal antitrust enforcement during the current pandemic. We can tell you this: the Agencies are taking longer to clear or challenge deals, but the level of antitrust enforcement, for both merger and...By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New York’s statewide energy storage goal of 3,000 megawatts (MW) by 2030, with an interim objective of deploying 1,500 MW by 2025 require significant increases in the high energy consumption zone of New York City. Market conditions there are trending...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

The French Foreign Investments Control regime has recently been reinforced following a reform introduced by Decree n° 2019-1590 of 31 December 2019 and the Ministerial Order of 31 December 2019 relating to foreign investments in France. This reform,...By: White & Case LLP

On April 28, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce (BIS) published two final rules — both of which will take effect on June 29, 2020 — and one proposed rule — for which comments are due by June 29, 2020 — that have...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken M&A transactions. Companies that entered into deal negotiations many months ago could never have anticipated that COVID-19 would impact the global economy in profound ways. In light of the pandemic, buyers with cold...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Construction projects are slowed or disrupted all the time because of one party’s actions and omissions. Enforcing a right to contribution or indemnification because of that party’s failures or missteps can be challenging, however — particularly if...By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

In recent weeks Congress has authorized funding for a number of programs intended to provide relief to small- and medium-sized businesses and certain particularly hard-hit industry sectors, as well as to American businesses more generally. The...By: Morrison & Foerster LLP