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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: 5 Key Lessons on Building a Business That Super-Successful Female Founders Wished They’d Known When They Started - Starting a business can feel impossible, no matter what your prior...By: WilmerHale

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finalized plans to charge employers a $10 registration fee for each H-1B petition they submit for registration in the agency’s new electronic H-1B registration system. The final rule will take effect...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

In its recent complaint challenging the $360 million acquisition of Farelogix by Sabre, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) appears to have left the door open to offering proof that harm to innovation in the market for airline bookings is a separate...By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

Hogan Lovells pension group is delighted to send you our November e-newsletter. Featured are points regarding the new investment legislation, latest Pensions Ombudsman cases and a High Court case regarding tax issues. Please see full Publication...By: Hogan Lovells

The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the dollar limitations for retirement plans and other benefits, beginning January 1, 2020. Some of the limits are listed below....By: Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

ESG—Environmental, Social, and Governance—investing is attracting the attention of pension funds, hedge funds, sell-side analysts, large money managers, lenders and banks, and political interest groups and activists, all of whom can exercise their...By: Jones Day

The Internal Revenue Service has announced the 2020 limits that affect the operation of tax-qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, and certain other types of employee benefit plans, including deferred compensation plans that may be...By: Cooley LLP

The IRS has just released its 2020 annual inflation adjustments, in which it announced that the dollar limitation under Code section 125 on voluntary employee salary reductions for contribution to health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs)...By: Fraser Trebilcock

The Internal Revenue Service has recently issued final regulations easing requirements for hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The final regulations reflect a number of statutory changes, including those made under the Bipartisan...By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The Seventh Circuit joins the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits in holding that such a refusal would not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. In Shell v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, No. 19-1030, the appellate court addressed...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.