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News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

NDAA Imposes New Requirements and Restrictions for Defense Contractors

by David Himelfarb, Daniel Kelly, Bonnie Vanzler | McCarter & English, LLP on 1/28/2013

How will the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act impact your business as a government contractor? The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 ("NDAA") includes a number of...more

Legal Byte: Busted! if you “approve as to form & content?”

by Alan Goldberg on 9/6/2012

After negotiating an agreement for his client John, Attorney signs the agreement at the end stating that the agreement is “approved as to form and content.” A dispute arises between John and the other party, Mike. Now Mike...more

The Mid-90s Commercial Item Reforms: Turning Back the Clock?

by Pepper Hamilton LLP on 8/24/2012

Originally published in Federal Contracts Report, 98 FCR 210 on 08/14/2012. The mid-90s were a watershed for the federal procurement system. The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA) and the Clinger-Cohen...more

Transferring quarry and mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC]

by JOSEPH YAV KATSHUNG on 7/12/2012

The mining code of the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] provides for a possibility of leasing and assigning mining and quarry rights. Since mining and quarry rights, as expressed in mining and quarry permits, are real and...more

A Guide to the Bribery Act 2010: What it means for UK Businesses

by Richard Milner on 2/3/2011

The new Bribery Act 2010 is due to come in to force in April 2011. The Act is intended as a wholesale reform of the old bribery laws which were a complicated and confusing combination of statutory and common law offences from...more