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The IRS addressed key commercial and technical issues regarding the development and financing of carbon capture and sequestration projects. Key Points: ..The IRS released the first two of three anticipated guidance packages designed to answer...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Effective February 27, 2020, the filing thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”) have increased. Following statutory amendments made in 2000, the thresholds are adjusted annually based on...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

It is no surprise to any Iowa employer that the state has one of the most complex drug testing statutes in the country. Iowa Code §730.5 places the burden specifically on the employer to show strict compliance and can be complicated to navigate with...By: Davis Brown Law Firm

In this episode, Akin Gump international competition and trade partner Davina Garrod and corporate partner Gavin Weir discuss M&A in the U.K., EU, U.S., China and more, its state of health and where it might go in 2020....By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

On February 26, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma, holding that, for purposes of ERISA’s three-year statute of limitations, a plan beneficiary does not have “actual knowledge” of a breach of...By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Federal labor agencies have kicked their rulemaking efforts into high gear. One month after the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule defining (and limiting) when one entity can be deemed the joint employer of another’s employees, the...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

An employment tribunal recently found that a belief in ethical veganism is protected as a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010 (Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports ET/3331129/2018). In this Alert we will explore: • the legal basis...By: McDermott Will & Emery

Non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) can play a key component in encouraging American businesses to hire personnel, entrust them with valuable or confidential information, enter into joint ventures with other companies and resolve disputes in a...By: Vinson & Elkins LLP

Summary - This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB/Board) issued a new rule effectively overturning an Obama-era precedent on joint-employer status and making it harder to show that two companies were joint employers....By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

To ensure the protection of the safety and health of employees, the French Supreme Court reiterated the need to include provisions in collective bargaining agreements guaranteeing the reasonableness of the scope and workload for an employee covered...By: K&L Gates LLP