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Dear YouDig? Readers, Baseball is back this week. We hope. (Dear Baseball, please make it back as Covid life is feeling a bit heavy). Like any great construction project (and life), baseball seasons are long and full of adjustments. Even MLB’s 60 games planned for the 2020 season without fans will require incredible coordination and strong performances from management, coaches, health experts and the players to succeed. We can hardly imagine major league baseball with few fans but we can...By:...

What is in store for companies that are on the cusp of financial distress and might be facing potential mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or liquidation? We’re discussing what buyers and sellers should keep in mind while engaging in distressed financial transactions. Joining Michael for this conversation is Ariel Yehezkel. Ariel is a partner in the Sheppard Mullin New York office. He is the Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. He concentrates his...By: She...

A handful of large deals struck early in the year provided a few bright spots for Italian M&A activity in H1 2020. A cluster of larger deals in early 2020 helped to put a shine on Italy’s M&A figures for the first half of the year. Despite the huge disruption caused by the spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown, the US$16.9 billion deal value for H1 2020 was in fact 21% above the value for H1 2019. Deal volume, however, was down 37% in H1 to 185 deals....By: White & Case LLP

On July 8, 2020, in the consolidated cases of Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania et al. and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania et al., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can exclude coverage for birth control from their health care plans if they oppose contraception on moral or religious grounds....By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The president of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently signed the law, On Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Matters Related to Improvement of Investment Climate, which came into effect on 11 July 2020....By: Morgan Lewis

In UDOT v. Target Corp. et al., 2020 UT 10, the Utah Supreme Court recently clarified the standard by which a property owner is entitled to severance damages in connection with condemnation under Utah Code Ann. § 78B-6-511(1)(b). The case arose from a UDOT highway construction project in which it condemned a small portion of Target’s property to reconstruct an interchange......By: Snell & Wilmer

Please join us on August 4, 2020 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT for “Key CEQA Compliance Considerations for Vehicle Miles Traveled Analyses.” This complimentary webinar will examine the California Natural Resources Agency’s new guidelines for traffic and transportation impacts analyses under CEQA through legal, planning and technical perspectives. Our panel will provide practical advice for preparing defensible vehicle miles traveled (VMT) analyses....By: Nossaman LLP

In Re Homefed Corporation Stockholder Litigation arose from a transaction in which Jefferies Financial Group Inc., the 70% stockholder of HomeFed Corporation, acquired the rest of the shares of the company in July 2019 by exchanging two of its shares for each share of HomeFed held by its minority stockholders....By: Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Financial Institutions M&A sector trends: Asset/wealth management — H1 2020 and outlook for H2 2020. Differing bank prerogatives drive deal-making—-some European banks tag-out from non-core business lines, while others tag-in for stable returns......By: White & Case LLP

FDI restrictions have been on the political agenda in Europe and further afield for at least the past year, and following the outbreak of COVID-19 and the changed economic landscape, the approach in jurisdictions across the world has mutated....By: White & Case LLP