28 Sep, 2022 The AAA updates its Commercial Arbitration Rules: What are the key changes? By Thomas Walsh Christian Vandergeest Peter Kim The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently issued amendments to its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The Commercial Arbitration...
09 May, 2022 GAR’s Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards Know-how By Elliot Friedman David Livshiz Paige von Mehren An extract from GAR’s Challenging and Enforcing Arbitration Awards Know-how. The whole publication is available at Global Arbitration...
31 Mar, 2022 Investment Treaty Disputes in the Natural Resources Sector in Latin America: What issues to consider when calculating damages? By Noiana Marigo Hinda Rabkin Many investment treaty arbitrations in Latin America relate to investments in the natural resources sector. This is unsurprising. Latin...
14 Apr, 2021 Comparing the EU’s Representative Actions Directive to US class action procedures By Linda Martin Henry Hutten This fifth blog in our series examining the EU Representative Actions Directive ("the Directive") considers how lawsuits proceeding...
05 Aug, 2020 Are export controls on China the new sanctions? By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Katerina Gross The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 11 Chinese companies to BIS’ Entity List on July 22, 2020, as...
11 May, 2020 Balancing travelers’ right to refunds and airlines’ right to survival in the age of COVID-19 By Amna Arshad Charlie Beller Meredith Mommers Ticket refunds, normally a very clear-cut area of regulation, have become a lightning rod issue for air carriers, consumers and...
10 May, 2020 Recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision sustains another Caremark claim at the pleading stage By Meredith Kotler Pamela Marcogliese Marques Tracy After decades of routinely dismissing such claims, Vice Chancellor Laster’s recent 41-page decision in Hughes v. Hu represents the third...
16 Apr, 2020 Proxy advisory firms provide perspective and guidance in light of the impact of COVID-19 By Pamela Marcogliese Lori Goodman Kevin Kay Elizabeth Bieber +1 more... Show less On March 23, 2020, Glass Lewis issued its perspective on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on...
14 Apr, 2020 Not so fast! A revealing look at the data behind recent poison pill adoptions and what boards should be doing now By Ethan Klingsberg Paul Tiger Elizabeth Bieber Paul Gray +1 more... Show less A number of commentators have written in recent weeks about a growing trend of issuers of all shapes and sizes adopting shareholder...
13 Apr, 2020 Why parties now need to focus on interim operating covenants By Ethan Klingsberg Paul Tiger Kelsey MacElroy Against the backdrop of unexpected developments arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, parties with signed, but not yet closed, M&A...
13 Apr, 2020 COVID-19 litigation in the US just beginning By Timothy Harkness We are starting to see COVID-19-related litigation in the US, which is not a surprise. Most of the brewing disputes have not made it to...
09 Apr, 2020 Waste not, want not: Delaware sounds a warning to directors and officers contemplating distressed acquisitions By Ethan Klingsberg Paul Tiger Chase Lax A warning to potential acquirors of distressed targets appears at the end of the Delaware Court of Chancery’s recent opinion in In re...