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8 months on since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, the pandemic continues to pose serious challenges for the building and construction industry in Singapore, not least because thousands of foreign workers in the construction industry had to be quarantined as a result of the outbreak of the virus in the foreign workers’ dormitories....By: Dentons

In connection with the dynamically worsening epidemic situation in Poland, on November 6, 2020, the Ministry of Health published a regulation amending the regulation of October 9, 2020 on establishing certain restrictions, orders and prohibitions in connection with the occurrence of a state of epidemic (“Regulation”). The changes introduced by the Regulation will take effect from November 7, 2020 and will last until November 29, 2020....By: Dentons

During these particularly trying times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses of all sizes have been concerned about the future. As a result, considering potential liquidation or restructuring through bankruptcy is inevitably starting to become a reality for some. Companies in this situation should keep privacy concerns in mind, because the handling of personal data in bankruptcy proceedings poses some unique challenges....By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP

The Supreme Court has handed down judgment today in an eagerly awaited case on restrictive covenants and affordable housing. It is the first time that the Supreme Court has considered a case on the modification of restrictive covenants....By: Hogan Lovells

California voters reject measure to expand rent control - Bullet SFGate – November 4 - Voters on Tuesday soundly rejected a ballot measure that would have let California cities expand rent control in a state where residents are grappling with rising housing costs. Proposition 21 would have allowed cities and counties to implement stricter forms of rent control than they can now under the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act......By: Allen Matkins

Recent press has explored how corporate transactions have evolved in the months of the pandemic. At first, they slowed to a crawl. But, according to a June article in the Harvard Business Review, mergers and acquisitions may provide an “important and encouraging counterintuitive growth strategy for those executives and companies prepared to turn crisis into opportunity... Originally published in Law360 October 19, 2020....By: Greenwald Doherty, LLP

Divestiture has long been considered an appropriate and effective remedy for anticompetitive horizontal mergers. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), as reflected in the Statement of the Bureau of Competition entitled Negotiating Merger Remedies, and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, as stated in its updated Merger Remedies Manual, agree that divestiture can effectively “preserve competition,” i.e., the ultimate goal of a merger remedy....By: Epstein Becker & Green

After a number of controversial bills proposed from various industry groups over the last few years, the Tennessee construction community came together in 2020 to push through legislation intended to protect members of the construction industry. A cornerstone of that attempt was gaining lien priority – or at least parity – with construction lenders, further bolstering the trust fund statutes, and developing statutory stop work procedures in the event of non-payment......By: Bradley Arant Boult...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that notwithstanding a stipulation on claim construction, a party may still induce infringement absent proof that it actually relied on the stipulation, and that mere inaction, absent an affirmative act to encourage infringement, cannot be the basis for a claim of inducement. The Federal Circuit also affirmed the district court’s reduction of the jury’s damages award to $0 despite a finding of direct infringement because the plaintiff failed...

Deals are generally not blocked in Finland, and are reviewed mostly when in the defense and dual-use sectors - The Finnish government views foreign ownership positively as a catalyst for increasing internationalization and competitiveness. Deals are restricted only when they meet very specific criteria....By: White & Case LLP