There is real change afoot in the global political landscape: the US Presidential election is around the corner, the UK has a new government and elections for the European Parliament were held over the summer. So what does this…
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/ International Law & Trade, Real Estate - Commercial
In re Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation Derivative Litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting en banc, overruled its prior decision in Blasband v. Rales that applied an…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Securities Law
In Wagner v. BRP Group Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery further developed its jurisprudence regarding the validity of stockholders agreements that vest significant control rights in minority stockholders instead of a…
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/ Business Organizations, Mergers & Acquisitions
Through Aerospace & Defense Insights, we share with you the top legal and political issues affecting the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. Our A&D industry team monitors the latest developments to help our clients stay in…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
The Italian Legislative Decree implementing MiCAR has been published in the Official Gazette. Among other things, it designates CONSOB and the Bank of Italy as competent supervisory authorities and sets out a transitional regime…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
Significant legislative changes have been made to the UK’s sanctions regime in the first half of September 2024, namely: These new amendments demonstrate the UK’s further efforts in imposing penalties against sanctions breaches…
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/ International Law & Trade
In July, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would make substantial changes to the rules for determining the “country of origin” of drugs for…
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/ Government Contracting, Health, International Law & Trade
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in collaboration with PowerSoft Africa and the Coalition for Digital Africa, recently published a study on the state of the domain industry in Africa in 2023…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a proposed rule to revise the definition of “defense service” and the scope of related controls under existing International…
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/ International Law & Trade
The previous government put forward a huge agenda for leasehold reform. While they managed to pass the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 before parliament was dissolved – which introduced a ban on new leasehold houses and…
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/ Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
A recent decision from the French Supreme Court provides some interesting developments regarding the extra-contractual (or tort) liability based on a breach of contract.
An Italian company specializing in the production of…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
The new UK government has leapt out of the starting blocks at full pace in terms of promises of reform, a rental revolution and a planning shake-up. So what is coming down the line in terms of new legislation over the next few…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In Tesco Stores Ltd v USDAW the UK Supreme Court has reinstated an injunction stopping Tesco from dismissing and re-engaging employees on new terms to remove their contractual pay protection. The circumstances in which the pay…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The date of application of the EU Data Act is slowly approaching. By 12 September 2025 all IoT providers / manufacturers will need to implement the Data Act. There is still time to carry out the necessary actions to adapt to the…
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/ Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The last two mandatory compliance dates under the SEC’s amendments to Exchange Act Regulation 13D-G adopted in October 2023 are fast approaching. We discussed the amendments in our SEC Update available here. Beginning on…
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/ Securities Law
