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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, bringing you up to speed on the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of occupational pensions.? Please see full article below for more information....By: Allen & Overy LLP

On 23 October 2019, the UK Supreme Court decided that Professor Ian Shanks, a former employee of Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd (“UCRL”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever plc, was entitled to compensation under section 40 of the Patents Act...By: Ropes & Gray LLP

On October 29, 2019, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an important decision concerning master limited partnerships (“MLPs”) and other alternative entities in the context of conflict-of-interest transactions. In Dieckman v. Regency GP LP, C.A....By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law AB5, codifying a new test for distinguishing employees from independent contractors. While AB5 does not go into effect until January 1, 2020, it will apply retroactively to many claims. Wine...By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Restrictions on a contractor's rights to subcontract works are common across industry forms of contract, and breach of these provisions can have significant consequences for a contractor. In a recent Australian case, the court considered whether a...By: White & Case LLP

Borrowers often envision future alterations to enhance the economic value of the commercial real estate asset, when closing the initial loan. Such alterations can be in the form of capital improvements, tenant improvements, renovations, and/or...By: Vandeventer Black LLP

In the rapidly growing multi-billion dollar cannabis industry, new developments frequently occur in capital markets, investments, M&A, and regulation. Attendees of the Third Annual State of the Cannabis Industry Conference had the opportunity to...By: Burns & Levinson LLP

Right of First Refusal EO Revoked. Last week, President Trump issued an Executive Order revoking Executive Order 13495 issued by President Obama in January 2009. EO 13495 required that successor Federal service contractors (in certain circumstances)...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

President Trump’s October 9, 2019 overtures landed as music to the ears of many a grizzled immigration lawyer who persistently suffers battle fatigue from the culture of virtually never.  On that day the President released a double album, each with...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has issued another ruling regarding an obesity-related disability accommodation request under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Earlier this past summer, we reported on another Seventh Circuit case, in...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP