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Reboot of International Entrepreneur Program for Startups

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The Biden administration announced on May 11, 2021, that it is restoring a never-fully-utilized Obama-era program allowing foreign entrepreneurs to stay in the United States temporarily in order to oversee and grow certain...more

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OFAC Implements Chinese Military Company Sanctions, Issues Rounds of New FAQs

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has implemented new sanctions affecting China pursuant to Executive Order (“E.O.”) 13959, one of the Trump Administration’s final actions. The...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Venture Capital And Private Equity Investors Take Note: Primary Care May Be The Next Behavioral Health

According to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) study reported in Health Affairs on March 24, 2020, national health care spending reached $3.81 trillion in 2019 and is projected to increase to $4.01 trillion...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Navigating President Trump’s Executive Order on US Bulk Power System Electric Equipment - May 21st, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm...

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McDermott continues to provide the latest market updates on the disruption and uncertainty in the energy industry. President Trump’s May 1, 2020, executive order prohibiting certain transactions involving bulk-power system...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

An Electing Real Property Trade or Business can Revoke its Election on Account of the Change to Qualified Improvement Property...

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On April 10, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued Revenue Procedure 2020-22 (the “Revenue Procedure”), which (1) permits an “electing real property trade or business” that elected not to be subject to the...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

CFIUS Jurisdiction over Real Estate Transactions Expanded: Foreign Investors Should Take Notice

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The Trump administration continues to expand the powers of the US government to block foreign investment in the U.S. on national security grounds. In 1975, President Gerald Ford established the Committee on Foreign Investment...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

What's New in Washington - November 2019

Congress returns to Washington this week after the Thanksgiving recess to find a feast of leftover legislative items still on the table. Congress has a limited number of days remaining on the 2019 legislative calendar to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.16.2019 | Top Story: Weekend Attack on Aramco Oil Fields Sends Energy Prices Soaring

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A drone attack on Saudi Aramco oilfields this weekend affected 5% of global production and sent “energy prices substantially higher” late Sunday and early today. Analysts don’t anticipate a “severe shock to energy markets and...more

White & Case LLP

Defying gravity: US M&A H1 2019: Can the good times last? Four factors shaping M&A in the second half of 2019

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Many of the factors that have underpinned recent M&A activity remain in place, but concerns are mounting. Positive drivers of M&A, including the strength of the US economy, the availability of financing and the strategic...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Implementation of “Buy American” for Infrastructure Projects Begins May 1st

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In 2017, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Buy American and Hire American” which stated a commitment to do just that. Earlier this year, expanding on this policy, President Trump issued an executive order...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - March 2019 #2

West Virginia Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in EQT Doddridge County Trespassing Case - "The state Supreme Court will decide if a lower court judge got it right when he ruled natural gas production company EQT trespassed...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - February 2019

In this month's edition, we examine a judge's ruling allowing an investor suit against Equifax, the dismissal of a class action against the insurer CareFirst and President Donald Trump's launch of a federal artificial...more

Vedder Price

Federal Safe Harbor from Liability Expanded for Aircraft Lenders and Lessors

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After many years of congressional stalemates, the long awaited five-year reauthorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (the FAA) became federal law when signed by President Trump on October 5, 2018 (the...more

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Global Transportation Finance Newsletter - December 2018

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In This Issue: - Federal Safe Harbor from Liability Expanded for Aircraft Lenders and Lessors - ICAO CORSIA Update: Compliance Complexities Under ICAO’s New Carbon Offsetting Scheme Federal Safe Harbor from Liability...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them the First Time: What a Blue Wave in the House Likely Means for Financial...

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Elections have consequences and the recent midterm elections are no exception. Having won the House majority, Democrats are expected to proceed with an ambitious agenda in January 2019. Much of the focus has been on how the...more

Downey Brand LLP

Water Resources Development Act is Signed Into Law By President

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The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018, included as title I of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (S. 3021), was signed into law yesterday. The new law provides the needed authorization for investment...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Goodbye NAFTA, Hello USMCA: A New Framework for Investment, IP and the Digital Economy

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The new United States Mexico Canada Agreement announced on October 1, 2018, will replace the North America Free Trade Agreement and significantly alter the legal framework of what has arguably been the most successful...more

Polsinelli

Continuing Resolution Would Extend the EB-5 Program to December 7

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On September 27, 2018, the House of Representatives passed an $854 billion spending bill, H.R. 6157 - Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Mexico Keeps Investment Disputes Mechanism Under New USMCA

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• After months of uncertainty, the United States, Mexico and Canada recently reached a new trilateral trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

USMCA Eliminates Investor-State Arbitration for Canada – What It Means for Investors 

On September 30, 2018, Canada, Mexico and the United States announced that they had reached an agreement on a new treaty, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which will replace the North American Free Trade...more

Snell & Wilmer

New NAFTA Creates Opportunities for North American Businesses

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The United States, Canada, and Mexico have reached an agreement to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after more than a year of negotiations. Rebranded as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Significantly Curtails Foreign Investment Protection

On September 30, 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced they had reached an agreement to revamp the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which now will be known as the United...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New CFIUS Law: Key Issues Affecting the Energy Sector

• FIRRMA broadens the scope of a CFIUS review beyond transactions that could result in a foreign person gaining the ability to control a U.S. business. Consequently, more energy deals could be captured through expanded...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2018: Congress Enacts CFIUS Reform in Effort to Strengthen Foreign Investment Rules

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President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) on August 13, 2018, which was included as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). FIRRMA...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Trump Supreme Court Pick, Brett Kavanaugh, Could Play Role In Reshaping Major Securities Fraud Enforcement Tool

No one doubts that Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, would have an impact on the court’s jurisprudence if confirmed. For financial services and publicly-traded companies, as well as those...more

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