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In a Memorandum issued this week, OFCCP has granted a three-month, national interest exemption and waiver from AAP obligations for new federal contracts “entered into specifically to provide Coronavirus relief.” In summary, the “exemption and waiver...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

China’s new foreign investment regime introduced by the Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) and its implementation rules, which came into effect on January 1, 2020, should allow PE funds to invest in Chinese domestic companies on terms that more closely...By: Morrison & Foerster LLP

Digital drives deals in every sector, ensuring tech is a primary focus of M&A across the board—even as data challenges multiply. Some say every deal is a tech deal now. Not quite, but the point is well taken. Respondents to our survey rank "the need...By: White & Case LLP

The New York Court of Appeals has just erected “new and impossible barrier[s]” for defendants to obtain summary judgment in personal injury cases arising under New York’s Labor Law. On February 18, 2020, the Court of Appeals issued a 4-3 decision in...By: Harris Beach PLLC

On March 13, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) announced new procedures for how it will review transactions reportable under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act) due to the...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

In response to the public-health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19, Mayor Walsh has ordered all construction activity halted in Boston, effective March 17, 2020. The order carves out exceptions for emergency utility hookups and road repairs,...By: Conn Kavanaugh

The question is no longer whether the volatility created by the COVID-19 pandemic will deepen the difficulties businesses and other institutions face in the coming months, but by how much and in what ways. In the past few weeks, we have offered...By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) has prevailed in a first-of-its-kind arbitration, resolving its challenge to aluminum producer Novelis Inc.’s $2.6 billion proposed acquisition of rival Aleris Corporation. As a result of the...By: Bracewell LLP

The new coronavirus is a heat-seeking missile headed straight for our health care system. The virus threatens to infect a segment of our population so large that an influx of patients will overwhelm the relatively few open beds that hospitals have to...By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP

On 31 December 2019, a new coronavirus disease, now officially named “Covid-19”, was first reported to the World Health Organization (the “WHO”)’s Country Office in China. On 11 March 2020, the WHO stated that “Covid-19 can be characterized as a...By: King & Spalding