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Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. The Great Women in Compliance podcast is back! In this joint episode, Lisa and Mary kick off 2021 with an "ask us anything" episode where the questions were solicited from the GWIC Community....By: Thomas Fox

On 22 December 2020, on a divided vote, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) issued a Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (FTC Commentary) to provide “greater transparency to the public regarding its analysis of vertical mergers.”...By: Hogan Lovells

In a business where time is money, large construction projects – at least those that are properly managed – proceed at a feverish pace. To keep up, project managers up and down the chain are often forced to communicate with one another in shorthand – a quick phone call, text message, or email, rather than something more formal – and to prioritize emergencies over the exchange of routine paperwork. But, at least according to one Superior Court judge, PMs must reconsider how and when they resp...

What can we really say about 2020?—a year more unique than any year we can remember. For financial institutions, it was a year that started off with lots of hope and drifted into levels of significant concern as COVID-19 took hold, but slowly has returned to a sense of “cautious optimism” about the year ahead. Below, we have shared our top five takeaways in 2020 and what to expect in 2021....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

On December 23, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020, which includes a provision that would repeal the limited federal antitrust immunity currently granted to certain health insurance business practices by the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act. The U.S. House of Representatives previously passed this bill on September 21, 2020, and will become law when the President signs the bill, as expected......By: King & Spalding

The City and County of San Francisco (SF) issued a COVID-19 surge-related travel and quarantine order (Quarantine Order) on Dec. 16, 2020, and an updated Shelter-In-Place Order (SIP Order) on December 9 (updated Dec. 30, 2020). Under those orders, every person who enters SF after having been outside the Bay Area within the last ten days must quarantine for 240 hours from the time of arrival in SF. However, two exceptions apply to those working on construction projects in SF....By: Hanson Bridget...

The IRS recently issued Notice 2021-05, which provides relief for offshore projects and projects located on federal land related to the beginning-of-construction requirements for the production tax credit under Section 45 of the Code (“PTC”) and the investment tax credit under Section 48 of the Code (“ITC”). The notice provides that an offshore project or a project located on federal land will be deemed to satisfy the continuity safe harbor if the project is placed in service within 10 calen...

Special Edition Week In Review: Read all about it! While many of you were at holiday over the last two weeks, your federal government was not, and a lot of news hit the wire. So, we were there and can now report what you missed. You are going to be amazed at what went on in your absence. Enjoy! Happy New Year from your WIR team. In today’s edition, they discuss: - New COVID-19 Relief Permits Employers to Voluntarily Extend Cost-Free Paid Leave Under FFCRA into 2021 - EO 13950 Imploded Even...

Recap of some of the most well-read Construction Law publications on JD Supra during 2020....By: Beacon Insights by JD Supra

According to OPTIS Partners’ latest quarterly report, following a slowdown in the second quarter of 2020, by the third quarter the mergers and acquisitions market for insurance agencies had returned to pre-pandemic levels. The number of acquisitions in the third quarter of this year (170 reported transactions) was virtually identical to the 171 recorded transactions for the same period last year. Private-equity backed/hybrid group of buyers continued to play a significant role in these...By: K...