It is readily apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on transactional activity—at least in the short term—for both buyers and sellers across a range of industries. Whether parties are still moving forward with their transactions,...By: Robinson & Cole LLP
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A round-up of the key legislation, guidance and measures issued to help the UK construction industry deal with the effects of coronavirus (COVID-19). Government and industry guidance is being updated regularly....By: Dentons
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As discussed in a prior blog post, in Gindel v. Centex Homes, 2018 Fla.App. LEXIS 13019, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that when the plaintiffs provided a pre-suit notice in compliance with §558.004 of Florida’s construction defect...By: White and Williams LLP
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On April 8, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 122 (“Order 122”) requiring certain businesses that are permitted to remain open (as set forth in his prior Executive Order 107, about which we wrote about here, and other...By: Epstein Becker & Green
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While residential and commercial construction is currently considered an essential business activity in Maryland, DC, and Virginia during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, developers and contractors with active construction projects must take...By: Ballard Spahr LLP
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On April 7, the City of Oakland Planning and Building Department released findings and determinations implementing the construction-related section 13(f)(v) of the County of Alameda’s March 31 shelter-in-place order No. 20-04 (“County Order”). The...By: Wendel Rosen LLP
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White & Case LLP argued the last successful fully-fledged "failing firm defence" case in Aegean/Olympic II in 2013. Our lawyers Assimakis Komninos and Jan Jeram, who acted in that case, with the help of Iakovos Sarmas1, published an article on the...By: White & Case LLP
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In the first quarter of 2020, no sector was able to avoid the declining interest in M&A caused by the expanding COVID-19 outbreak, which not only dampened appetite for new deals, but cast doubt over whether some pending deals will complete....By: Hogan Lovells
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The rapid and significant decline in stock trading prices of many public companies due to the effects of the evolving coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has created the risk of activists or hostile acquirers rapidly building meaningful stakes in public...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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The coronavirus pandemic is creating both opportunities and risks for Florida’s contractors. For example, on April 1, 2020 the Florida Department of Transportation announced that it will take advantage of nearly empty roads by accelerating work...By: Shutts & Bowen LLP
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