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Last month, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released updated Vertical Merger Guidelines in draft form. These guidelines provide a useful resource for aerospace and defense contractors involved in...By: McDermott Will & Emery

On February 12, 2020, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued an opinion with significant implications for Massachusetts employers with commissioned employees. In Parker v. EnerNOC, Inc. (SJC-12703), the SJC held that (1) unpaid...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

On February 20, 2020, the California Energy Commission approved its first community solar system under the 2019 Energy Code, which allows developers of new homes within Sacramento Municipal Utility District (“SMUD”) to meet mandatory solar energy...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Undocumented workers in Virginia are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits but not to the same extent as workers who are legally eligible to work in the United States. This concept is commonly misunderstood by workers, employers and workers’...By: Vandeventer Black LLP

Financial institutions M&A sector trends: payments — H2 2019 and outlook for 2020. Megadeals, including Global Payments/Total System Services, Fidelity National/Worldpay and PayPal/iZettle, have dominated headlines, but both deal values and volumes...By: White & Case LLP

Semiconductor Components, doing business as ON Semiconductor, petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of several claims of Power Integration’s U.S. Patent No. 6,212,079. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted review and after a trial on...By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Dear YouDig?, We were just hired to construct part of a stage and sound system for a concert by the management team of a famous rock n’ roll group that is coming to Ohio this summer (we can’t name the band but it sounds like “Bowling Tones”). They...By: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

HEADLINES - In 2019, European take-private deals backed by private equity reached €34.5 billion over 31 deals - This is 14 per cent higher than 2018 and more than five times the total deal value seen just five years earlier - Equivalent UK total...By: White & Case LLP

Introduction and Background - On January 29, 2020, the Second Department affirmed a Suffolk County Commercial Division decision applying both the de facto merger doctrine and the veil piercing doctrine....By: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

In welcome news to employers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision on December 19, 2019, holding that employer rules requiring employee confidentiality during the course of workplace investigations are presumptively lawful...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP