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This White Paper highlights the legal and regulatory considerations in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Hong Kong, and Singapore that asset managers and their institutional investor clients should reconcile in marketing and adapting portfolios to ESG considerations. Please see full Publication below for more information....By: Morgan Lewis

On September 3, 2020, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division released its Merger Remedies Manual. The manual provides important guidance on what DOJ considers to be adequate solutions to addressing competitive issues in M&A deals challenged by DOJ. Several key points are identified below......By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The current difficulties managing the worldwide response and recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the need for attorneys to take the lead on behalf of their clients and communities in an effort to create communities more capable of resisting and, if necessary, quickly recovering from natural disasters and other extreme events. The recently published American Bar Association’s Community Resilience Handbook draws together contributions from the legal community and other professional...By...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying market downturn have resulted in widespread uncertainty felt on a global scale – including in the M&A space. This webinar will explore ways M&A transactions – particularly due diligence and related deal terms – have changed in the wake of the pandemic and how buyers and sellers can adapt their respective approaches to the critical due diligence step of a transaction. Travel restrictions, pandemic-related “stress test” analyses, and limited...By: V...

Blaming a “U.S. move to impose tariffs on French goods,” luxury brand conglomerate LMVH is pulling out of a proposed $16 billion deal to buy jeweler Tiffany & Co. Tiffany is now suing to enforce the ill-fated agreement....By: Robins Kaplan LLP

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has provided construction project owners, developers, general contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, and vendors with a helpful reminder about obtaining effective additional insurance coverage on construction projects....By: Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

Bid to allow duplexes on most California lots fails after Assembly approval comes too late...California lawmakers nearly sent a bill to Governor Gavin Newsom that would have essentially ended single-family zoning across much of a state mired in a housing crisis. Then they ran out of time. In a legislative season compressed by the coronavirus outbreak, the California Assembly approved...By: Allen Matkins

United States District Judge James M. Moody (“Court”) addressed in a September 3rd Order a July 10th Motion filed by Plaintiffs seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction (“Motion”) to prohibit commencement of: . . . any construction on any portion of the proposed reconstruction of a 7.3 mile section of Interstate 30 in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas, more particularly described herein, pending a final hearing for a permanent injunction based on the merits of the First Amen...

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division recently issued a modernized Merger Remedies Manual, last updated in 2011. The Manual provides an overview of DOJ’s key considerations in crafting a remedy when the Antitrust Division concludes that a proposed transaction would otherwise result in a loss of competition......By: Morrison & Foerster LLP

Infomedia Group, Inc. v. Orange Health Solutions Inc., C.A. No. N19C-10-212 AML CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. July 31, 2020) - This case is a strong reminder that Delaware will enforce anti-reliance clauses to bar claims for fraud where sophisticated parties voluntarily agree to the anti-reliance clauses....By: Morris James LLP