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Fifth Wall to launch PropTech SPAC - The Real Deal – January 6 - Fifth Wall, a prolific PropTech investor that has backed VTS, States Title and Industrious, is joining the SPAC craze. The Los Angeles-based firm is raising money for a blank-check company that could take some of its svampanies public......By: Allen Matkins

This brief guide provides updates on the impact of COVID-19 on merger control reviews around the world. Please see full Publication below for more information....By: Latham & Watkins LLP

A recent decision from the Southern District of New York may pave the way for broader excuse of performance in COVID-19 force majeure litigation after finding the pandemic is a “natural disaster” that is beyond the parties’ “reasonable control,” triggering the force majeure clause. The past 10 months have brought a resurgence of the application of the force majeure doctrine due to the ongoing pandemic....By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Raising money is hard. Many founders think that it’ll be easy, and that a dozen investors will be lining up outside the room after their first pitch with term sheets in hand....By: Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

In the first two weeks of Iowa’s 2021 legislative session, multiple bills pertinent to the construction industry have been introduced. Below is a list of bills to watch....By: Davis Brown Law Firm

On December 19, 2020, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) jointly issued the Measures on National Security Review of Foreign Investments (“Review Measures”)....By: Dechert LLP

In a Nutshell - What’s new? Significantly increased turnover thresholds for German merger control....By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

U.S. drug giant Merck is shuttering its coronavirus vaccine development “after early trial data showed [its pair of vaccines] failed to generate immune responses comparable to natural infection or existing vaccines.”...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

A freeze on government regulation is generally perceived by most people as being a positive development for private enterprise.  Not necessarily so, however, when the regulation being frozen is itself a reform of preexisting regulatory burdens....By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.

We surveyed 550 participants, including GCs, heads of legal or equivalent, chief information security officers or equivalent, COOs and CEOs. The survey covered the automotive, consumer, diversified industrials, financial services and insurance, life sciences, technology and telecoms, and energy and natural resources sectors. We surveyed businesses with annual revenues of US$200m-500m, US$500m-1bn and more than US$1bn. The survey, which took place in the second half of 2020, asked participants to...