Feb 25, 2021 Fourth Circuit Opens the Door to Divestitures in Private Merger Challenges By Andrew Ewalt Charlie Beller In Steves and Sons, Inc. v. Jeld-Wen, Inc., a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously affirmed...
Feb 21, 2021 Eleventh Circuit Limits Some Claims Under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act By Kimberly Zelnick Elliot Friedman Nabeel Yousef David Livshiz Thomas Walsh Christian Vandergeest +3 more... Show less Last week, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the first Court of Appeals to interpret Title III of the Helms Burton Act, which...
Feb 19, 2021 The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part III By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan Today’s third installment of this series discussing the proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act covers, well, what the Virginia...
Feb 18, 2021 The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part II By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan This is the second part of a series assessing how the proposed Consumer Data Protection Act in Virginia stacks up against the CCPA in...
Feb 17, 2021 The proposed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Part I By Peter Jaffe Menachem Kaplan Even as California has progressed to version 2.0 of its state data protection law, most U.S. states have yet to release their version...
Feb 12, 2021 Changes to SEC Enforcement Practices Signal New Era of Potentially Aggressive Enforcement By Kimberly Zelnick Hannah Khalifeh Mark Goldberg Aaron Kates Rose +1 more... Show less Earlier this week, on February 9, 2021, Acting Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Allison Herren Lee announced that...
Feb 10, 2021 Supreme Court Limits FSIA’s Expropriation Exception to Violations of the International Law of Expropriation By Linda Martin Elliot Friedman David Livshiz Scott Eisman Christian Vandergeest Paige von Mehren +3 more... Show less On February 3, 2021, the United States Supreme Court decided Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, narrowing the scope of the...
Feb 08, 2021 Will Proposed Legislation Increase Antitrust Enforcement? An Overview of the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 By Jan Rybnicek Kara Reid Interest in antitrust reform has been growing steadily among policymakers in Washington, DC, over the last several years. Last year, the...
Feb 05, 2021 Critical HSR Updates: Suspension of Early Termination and Decrease of HSR Monetary Thresholds in the United States By Meghan Rissmiller Ilana Kattan Valeria Losco This week, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two significant changes to the US merger review process: (1) the suspension of...
Feb 05, 2021 Second Circuit Decision Reiterates That US Securities Laws Do Not Apply To “Predominantly Foreign” Transactions By Timothy Harkness Linda Martin Mary Eaton David Livshiz Scott Eisman Henry Hutten +3 more... Show less Cavello Bay Reinsurance Ltd. v. Stein, 2021 WL 232551(2d Cir. Jan. 25, 2021) On January 25, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for...
Feb 04, 2021 The Supreme Court Vacates Second Circuit Insider Trading Decision After “Bridgegate” Ruling By Kimberly Zelnick Daniel Braun Mark Goldberg Elena Hadjimichael +1 more... Show less On January 11, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s ruling in the insider trading case...
Feb 03, 2021 Expansion of CFIUS’s monitoring and enforcement capabilities has raised the stakes of getting it right when deciding to voluntarily file a transaction By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello A recent Wall Street Journal article described how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (“CFIUS;” “the Committee”) is using...