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As COVID-19 – commonly known as coronavirus – continues to send shock waves through global markets and industries, dealmakers are considering whether they can terminate, or renegotiate, M&A transactions that they have entered into but have not yet...By: White and Williams LLP

Speculation about the impact of coronavirus and recent stock market volatility, including Thursday’s worst decline since the 1987 market crash, on M&A activity has intensified. Members of Ballard Spahr’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group report seeing the...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

It has been an active last week in the world of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). In addition to CFIUS’s publication of proposed regulations that would impose filing fees for parties’ submission of notices of...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The FTC recently released the following information.  Due to the developing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and consistent with guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, the Premerger Notification Office (PNO) will implement a temporary...By: Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Activism affects virtually everyone now—even those who may never have to deal with an activist - If you’re still nursing doubts about whether activism has a broad effect on M&A, it may be time to put them to bed. Seventy-eight percent of respondents...By: White & Case LLP

Following the wider outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world, radical—and sometimes controversial—actions have been and are further expected to be taken by national, federal and local governments and authorities in affected countries....By: McDermott Will & Emery

Trends in Material Adverse Change Clauses – Implications of Coronavirus on M&A Transactions - On M&A transactions deal certainty may be a key negotiation issue. Whilst a seller may be reluctant to concede a material adverse change (MAC) or material...By: White & Case LLP

Thinking through the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on M&A and deal terms. COVID-19 may cause buyers and sellers to reassess valuations, adjust pricing mechanisms and implement new methodologies for interim operations and crisis response...By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

This client alert analyses the primary Employer risks, arising out of the construction of major hydropower projects in emerging market countries, funded by equity contributions and senior-secured, limited-recourse, project level, debt financing...By: King & Spalding

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced in the 2020 Budget that the government "will invest an additional £1 billion to remove unsafe cladding from residential buildings above 18 metres to ensure people feel safe in their homes". This is on top...By: Dentons