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This week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its highly anticipated Final Rule, which allows working owners with no employees and companies in unrelated industries to band together to create a single defined contribution retirement plan...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

Due diligence considerations with respect to licensing data and acquiring data-dependent businesses. In the relentless pursuit of the competitive advantages that arise from efficiency and speed, companies are increasingly using artificial...By: White & Case LLP

A group of 18 state attorneys general (the “AGs”) recently filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in advance of a series of hearings centered on changes to antitrust and consumer protection enforcement in the 21st century. The...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The protocol established by Mexico's Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) to execute the legitimacy of the collective labor agreements was published on July 31, 2019, in the Official Gazette of the Federation, in accordance with the fifth...By: Holland & Knight LLP

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed in a news conference this week that it served more than 3,000 Notices of Inspection to businesses nationwide....By: Stinson LLP

The need to replenish intellectual property has pushed the pharma industry to the highest-performing sector by M&A value. In the pharmaceuticals, medical and biotech sector, deal value in the first half of the year was up 142 percent to US$172...By: White & Case LLP

A number of prominent companies that sponsor defined benefit pension plans are having to defend lawsuits commenced in the past several months that allege that the actuarial assumptions used to determine optional forms of benefit or early retirement...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

HSBC chief John Flint is out just 18 months after he assumed the role as head of the London-based bank, likely due to clashes with Board Chair Mark Tucker and the lender’s focus on expanding in China. HSBC also announced it will shed 4,000 jobs in an...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

One of the major trends in recent years in employment discrimination law has been the lowering of the standard required for a plaintiff to demonstrate a hostile and offensive working environment based on race or sex. Federal courts now routinely find...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

A Federal District Court in New York recently fielded the issue of whether there is such a thing as a union relations privilege and the extent of that privilege. In Hernandez v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (18 Civ.No.35), baseball umpire...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP