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Contract Award for Riverside Extension of SR-91 Express Lanes

by Margo Bennett, Corey Boock | Nossaman LLP on 5/14/2013

On May 8th, 2013, the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) approved a $632 million dollar design-build contract for the SR-91 Corridor Improvement Project. The design-builder is a joint venture between Atkinson...more

Market Entry: People's Republic of China

by Thomas M. Shoesmith | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/24/2013

China is the world’s second largest economy, with an annual growth rate of more than 8 percent and a rapidly growing middle class. Foreign investment into China routinely exceeds US$100 billion a year. Businesses from all...more

China’s Merger Control Rules Changing: MOFCOM Publishes New Draft Regulations on Remedies and Simple Cases

by Henry Chen, Frank Schoneveld | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/17/2013

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently issued two new draft regulations. The first provides a wider range of potential remedies to obtain the clearance of a concentration (e.g., a merger, acquisition, joint venture, etc.);...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: European Commission clears the acquisition of TNK-BP by Rosneft

by King & Spalding on 4/16/2013

The European Commission (“Commission”) has approved without conditions Rosneft’s US$ 54.8 billion acquisition of TNK-BP. The Commission’s 8 March approval came two months after the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”)...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: EU Competition Law and Joint Sales in LNG

by King & Spalding on 4/16/2013

Liberalization of the EU natural gas sector began almost two decades ago. Since then, the European Commission (the “Commission”) has used various mechanisms to facilitate market opening including competition law enforcement,...more

OIG Issues Special Fraud Alert on Business Arrangements with Physician-Owned Entities

by Herschel Goldfield, Malcolm Harkins, III, Edward Kornreich, Elizabeth Mills, Ellen Moskowitz, Richard Zall | Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/15/2013

On March 26, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert (Fraud Alert) reiterating its long-standing concern that the opportunity for a referring physician to earn a profit by investing in a venture...more

Cobasys Absorbed Into New Subsidiary

by Bruce Goodman | Varnum LLP on 4/5/2013

Cobasys LLC of Orion, Michigan has been combined with SB LiMotive Germany GmbH of Stuttgart to form Robert Bosch Battery Systems. This is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. Cobasys has been focused on nickel...more

Distribution in China – Legal Issues

by John Huang, Frank Schoneveld, Winston Zhao | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/4/2013

McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to offer “Distribution in China – Legal Issues*,” a one-stop resource covering distribution in China, including: The business models and legal structures most commonly used for...more

OIG Calls PODs "Inherently Suspect"

by Julie Kass, William Mathias, Sanford Teplitzky | Ober|Kaler on 3/29/2013

Making its most strongly worded statement to date, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert on Physician-Owned Entities on March 26, 2013, calling...more

IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks -- March 14, 2013

by Jonathan Zavin | Loeb & Loeb LLP on 3/14/2013

In This Issue: - Gibson Guitar Corp. v. Viacom International, Inc., USDC C.D. California, March 8, 2013: District court grants Viacom’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s Lanham Act and related state law claims for...more

ITC Votes To Proceed With Section 337 Investigation On Fellowes Paper Shredders by T. Augustine Lo

by King & Spalding on 3/11/2013

The U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) voted on January 22, 2013 to institute a Section 337 investigation on certain paper shredders produced in China based on a complaint filed by Fellowes, Inc., an Illinois-based...more

Claims by Alleged Developers of the Huffington Post Permitted to Proceed

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/7/2013

In Daou v. Huffington, No. 651997/2010 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cnty. Feb. 14, 2013)—a case strikingly similar to the Facebook lawsuit popularized in The Social Network—the Supreme Court (J. Ramos) ruled that political...more

Joint Ventures

by Ian D. Shewen, Matthew J. Wilson | Lerners LLP on 2/26/2013

A joint venture is a contractual agreement joining together two or more parties for the purpose of executing a particular business undertaking. All parties agree to share in the profits and losses of the enterprise....more

Inside M&A - Winter 2013

by Obiamaka P. Madubuko, Jeffrey Rothschild, Frank Schoneveld, Jake Townsend | McDermott Will & Emery on 2/22/2013

In This Issue: - FCPA Due Diligence is Critical to Avoid Successor Liability in Cross-Border Transactions - China’s Merger Control Rules...more

The Global Prenup

by MoFo Tech on 2/21/2013

Think two steps ahead to keep your international deals afloat - You’re excited about that joint venture deal you signed with an overseas company. Together you’ll build a factory that will take orders from both sides,...more

Addressing the Maintenance Backlog in Victorian Schools – is a PPP the Answer?

by Catie Burdett, Rebecca Roberts | K&L Gates LLP on 2/21/2013

The results of the audit report into Victorian schools announced on 20 February 2013 revealed a AUD420 million maintenance backlog with over 5,000 school buildings identified as falling below the standards set by Department...more

Oh Canada! Significant Developments In Canadian Energy - January 2013

by Doug Black, Anne Calverley, Douglas Crowther, Bill Gilliland, Leanne C. Krawchuk, Alex MacWilliam, Claude Morency, Helen Newland, Cyrus Reporter, Ron Stuber | Dentons on 2/21/2013

In This Issue: - Oil Sands News - East Coast News - West Coast News - Canadian Arctic News - Alternative Energy - On the Horizon - Abbreviations - Excerpt from Oil Sands News: Enbridge has...more

New Jersey Enacts Tax Credit For Angel Investors

by Richard J. Horne, Andrew Segna, Brian Silikovitz | Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 2/14/2013

On January 31, 2013, Governor Chris Christie signed into law the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Act (the “Act”), which is intended to incentivize investment in New Jersey technology businesses. The Act provides tax...more

In re Mobilactive Media, LLC, Consol. C.A. No. 5725-VCP (Del. Ch. Jan. 25, 2013) (Parsons, V.C.)

by Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP on 2/13/2013

In this memorandum opinion, the Delaware Court of Chancery found that a member of a joint venture breached a limited liability company agreement, breached its fiduciary duties by usurping corporate opportunities, and violated...more

REGULATORY - Competition Law/Russia: Russia Gives Go-Ahead to Rosneft’s Acquisition of TNK-BP

by King & Spalding on 2/6/2013

The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”) has cleared Rosneft’s US$ 55 billion acquisition of TNK-BP, subject to divestments and conduct remedies. The deal will reduce the number of major oil companies in Russia from...more

Alfa v Cukurova, Part VII

by Harney Westwood & Riegels on 2/5/2013

Like a low budget horror film, the Alfa v Cukurova litigation seems to have an inexhaustible supply of sequels. However, beyond a propensity for repetition, there the end of parallels to low budget horror films ends (or low...more

Comparison of Canadian Content, Co-Ventures and Treaty Co-Productions

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 1/24/2013

Canada has long been a pioneer in the international co-production area with numerous co-production treaties. Enclosed is a chart that provides a comparison of Canadian Content, Co-Ventures and Treaty...more

Is the legal environment changing for Russia-related transactions? What new challenges will parties face and how should they...

by David Crook, Andrei Donstov, David Goldberg | White & Case LLP on 1/15/2013

A dynamic market - Russia is a dynamic, developing growth market, with a constantly changing legal environment. Right now Russia is seeing an upturn of activity in corporate transactions of all kinds: mergers and...more

I Don’t Care How Much I Pay (too Much, the Magic Bus)* – Part II

by Jonathan Lewis | BakerHostetler on 12/28/2012

In a prior post, we noted that the U.S. Department of Justice and State of New York filed an antitrust complaint that seeks to unwind a joint venture formed in 2009 by two competing tour bus operators in New York City....more

I Don’t Care How Much I Pay (too Much, the Magic Bus)*

by Jonathan Lewis | BakerHostetler on 12/17/2012

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice and State of New York filed an antitrust complaint that seeks to unwind a joint venture formed in 2009 by two competing tour bus operators in New York City....more

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