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Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Government to Consult AI Firms and Creative Sector in Revising Text and Data Mining Exception Proposal

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The government has announced it will come up with a new code of practice to replace an earlier approach that faced opposition from the creative sectors. Latham previously reported on the UK government’s proposal to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFIUS Recognizes United Kingdom, New Zealand as Excepted Foreign States

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Following enactment of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) updated its regulations to include three significant changes:...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Biden Administration Plans to Lift Regional COVID-19 Travel Bans and Replace with Global Vaccination Requirement for International...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association and various news outlets are reporting that, effective early November 2021, the Biden administration intends to: - Rescind the regional COVID-19 travel bans restricting travel...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Year, Same Transfers (for now): Temporary Brexit Deal Keeps EEA-UK Data Flowing

Many in the world have been watching the Brexit deal closely, including privacy lawyers and others who deal with global data transfers. Under the recently-announced deal, a temporary solution will allow companies to continue...more

Dechert LLP

More details emerge of the UK’s Job Retention Bonus Scheme

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Following the Chancellor’s announcement on 8 July 2020 that employers of furloughed employees would be entitled to a job retention bonus if they kept employees employed until the end of January 2021, the Government published...more

McDermott Will & Emery

COVID-19, Brexit, and Ongoing EU and UK Regulatory Initiatives for Product Compliance

The year 2020 has brought a host of unique challenges for EU product importers and manufacturers, including those in the chemical sector. Just as most businesses got to grips with their preparation for the disruption caused...more

White & Case LLP

No third party production: FRC loses its demand for Sports Direct's privileged documents

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Court battles with regulators over privilege and the disclosure of documents are becoming increasingly common. However, it is not often that you see a regulator seeking to obtain the privileged documents of a third party who...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

From CFIUS, With Love: The FIRRMA Regulations

The most pressing question around the new FIRRMA regulations is “Will my transaction be covered?” To provide a bit of guidance on that point, we present an illustration from our upcoming Second Edition of The CFIUS Book due...more

Dechert LLP

Restructuring and Insolvency Bulletin Issue 2 - 2017: Focus on schemes of arrangement: recent key judicial decisions

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Schemes of arrangement remain a popular tool for companies to reach a compromise with their creditors and effect complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings. In this article, we highlight a number of recent judicial decisions...more

WilmerHale

A Confidential Consultation?

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The Court of Appeal reaffirms the qualified nature of legal professional privilege. In the recent case of R v Edward Brown (formerly Latham) the Court of Appeal held that it was appropriate, in certain circumstances, to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Copyright: Europe Explores its Boundaries Part 2: New UK Infringement Exceptions - The Ones That Got Away (and Came Back Again)

In 2011 the Hargreaves Review stated that in some respects UK copyright law had failed to “keep up with technological and social change”, and recommended that the UK implement all of the copyright infringement exceptions...more

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