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Le 2 septembre 2020, le Bureau de la concurrence du Canada (le « Bureau ») a conclu un cadre d’application du droit de la concurrence, soit le Cadre multilatéral de coopération et d’assistance mutuelle des autorités de la concurrence (le « Cadre »), avec les autorités en matière de concurrence des États-Unis (soit le Department of Justice et la Federal Trade Commission), du Royaume-Uni, de l’Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande (« Five Eyes » ou « Groupe des cinq »)....By: Blake, Cassels & Gra...

If you know someone with property that borders, is adjacent to, or abuts a natural lake, pond, bay, sea, or ocean, they may have littoral property rights. What that means is they may have the right to build a pier out to the line of navigability, a right to navigation, a right to accretion, and a right of access....By: Nossaman LLP

What happened? On September 3, 2020, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a revised Merger Remedies Manual, which sets forth the Division’s framework for implementing remedies to resolve antitrust concerns in merger cases. The Manual specifically calls out Private Equity firms as potentially preferred buyers in certain situations....By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

On September 3, 2020, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) released a Merger Remedies Manual, updating its 2004 Policy Guide to Merger Remedies. (DOJ’s 2011 Policy Guide to Merger Remedies was withdrawn by DOJ in 2018.) As noted in the Manual and DOJ’s concurrent Press Release, a primary theme is that “structural remedies are strongly preferred in horizontal and vertical merger cases because they are clean and certain, effective, and avoid ongoing government regulation of the......

On September 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) issued a new Merger Remedies Manual (“Manual”). This is the first merger remedies guidance from DOJ since it released the 2011 Policy Guide to Merger Remedies, which it subsequently withdrew on September 25, 2018. As a result of DOJ’s repeal of the 2011 Guidelines, the 2004 Guidelines were reinstated and once again became effective. The Manual describes the principles and framework DOJ uses to analyze, struct...

Buried bow first in the ocean floor, off the coast of Lebanon, with its stern pointing straight up, lies the wreck of the HMS Victoria. On June 22, 1893, the HMS Victoria was accidentally struck below the water line by the ramming bow of the HMS Camperdown. Within minutes of the collision, 357 members of its…...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

With data privacy issues constantly in the news, what do businesses need to know about handling personal information when they’re considering bankruptcy, especially if some personal information – like customer records – may be a valuable asset?...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

This summer has brought two appellate court decisions that should help alleviate growing concern in the development community that the New York courts are overly receptive to community-based challenges to new development in residential neighborhoods....By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

What happened? On September 3, 2020, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a revised Merger Remedies Manual, which sets forth the Division’s framework for implementing remedies to resolve antitrust concerns in merger cases. The new manual updates DOJ’s guidelines for merger remedies for the first time in nearly a decade and reaffirms the Division’s strong preference for structural relief....By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

In our previous alert, we described the sustainability reporting ecosystem shaping the disclosure parameters and approaches to voluntary disclosure given the lack of regulatory mandates on disclosure....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP