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Legal Issues With Blockchains, Cryptocurrency Transactions, and Risks of Loss: Understand Your Contract

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The widespread and debilitating impacts of the recent faulty Crowdstrike® software update has caused businesses to evaluate processes and examine potential claims and defenses related to the deleterious commercial impacts of...more

Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] Risk Transfer, Employer Liability, and Grave Injuries: Who Is Going to Pay? - May 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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While this webinar will focus primarily on the New York construction aspect of risk transfer, it will be helpful for anyone dealing with risk-transfer issues. The presenters will also discuss activating the employer-liability...more

White & Case LLP

Constructing the low-carbon economy

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With an unprecedented momentum for the construction of new major projects linked to the shift away from fossil fuels and the development of a low-carbon economy, there is a real focus on construction law issues relevant to...more

Goldberg Segalla

[Webinar] An Ohio Primer: Critical Insurance Coverage Issues in the Buckeye State - April 9th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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Ohio presents unique challenges to practitioners handling insurance claims in the state. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Michael A. Hamilton and Sean P. Hvisdas as they host a live, interactive webinar on some of the most...more

Strafford

[Webinar] Financing-Related Provisions in Acquisition Agreements - March 13th, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

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This CLE course will provide an overview of critical financing-related provisions in acquisition agreements from multiple perspectives and provide a conceptual understanding of how the provisions in question interplay with...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Leasing 2023: The Year in Review

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This is the first edition of Holland & Knight's Federal Real Estate Leasing Year in Review. For years, our GSA Leasing & Federal Real Estate Team has worked with LexisNexis to provide updated versions of the Federal...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Audit Committees: Are They Overworked?

On June 22, 2023, the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee hosted a panel discussion regarding audit committee workload and transparency.  The panel was led by James Andrus, with presentations of new research by Lauren...more

Gardner Law

Beyond Paperwork: Assessing the Effectiveness of a Compliance Program

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In the world of FDA-regulated companies, compliance with regulatory requirements is not just a matter of paperwork. It is a critical aspect that can significantly impact mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the overall success...more

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Whose Data Breach Is It Anyway?

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To set the stage, it is important we review the current privacy and cybersecurity landscape. New privacy laws and regulations are emerging at both the state and federal levels, not to mention internationally, imposing...more

Seward & Kissel LLP

Knock-for-Knock Indemnities

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A knock-for-knock indemnity clause is a contractual risk allocation mechanism commonly utilized in the oil and gas industry. Charterparties and other maritime contracts concerning vessels also sometimes include this concept....more

DarrowEverett LLP

AIA Contracts are Especially Best Measured Twice and Cut Once

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In fast-paced industries such as the construction industry, it is easy to assume that standardized form contracts provided by the American Institute of Architects (“AIA”) will prevent, rather than cause, problems further down...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Insurance Update - December 2022

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We roll out our December Insurance Update just in time for the holidays. Here’s what’s inside: •The California Supreme Court discusses rules of policy construction in the context of a TCPA claim against Yahoo. •A...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Progressive Design-Build Takes Another Step Forward in California

Legislators have gradually expanded local agencies’ authority to procure construction projects over the last couple of decades by using various alternatives to the design-bid-build delivery method, which requires that...more

Mayer Brown

Contract Disputes Arising from the Ukraine Conflict: Issues, Defenses and Lessons for the Future

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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has had a significant impact on commercial activity for many organizations on a local and international scale. Organizations with commercial operations in the region (both Ukraine and Russia)...more

Jones Day

Judgment Claim and Lien Securing It Were Properly Subordinated Under Section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code

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Section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code provides a mechanism designed to preserve the creditor/shareholder risk allocation paradigm by categorically subordinating claims asserted against a debtor by equity holders arising from...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

What You Need To Know About Representation and Warranty Insurance

In this Upside episode, Farella's Greg LeSaint and Erica Villanueva discuss how incorporating representation and warranty insurance into your acquisition from the buy-side or sell-side can have tremendous benefits in dealing...more

Williams Mullen

Material Price Escalation: Workable Compromises Versus Traditional Allocation of Risk Expectations

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Rapid material price escalation is a costly reality of today’s construction industry. How long this escalation will be a reality is anyone’s guess. In the meantime, there are workable solutions; but those pressing for...more

Kilpatrick

[Webinar] Emerging Technology in Retail and Consumer Goods - May 25th, 1:30 pm ET

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Innovative technologies continue to alter the retail and consumer goods space, especially following rapid adoption and advancement during the pandemic. We will examine three key transformative technologies— facial...more

Woods Rogers

Virginia’s New Construction Payment Terms (Part 1)

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(Part one of a two-part article series) Confused about “pay-when-paid”, “pay-if-paid” clauses and the requirements of Virginia’s Prompt Payment Act on Virginia construction contracts? A new law intending to change the...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Cineplex Awarded $1.24 Billion in Lost Synergies from Failed Cineworld Acquisition: Company’s Pandemic Response Not Out of the...

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In a highly anticipated decision, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice – Commercial List held that Cineworld wrongly terminated its arrangement agreement to acquire Cineplex, which was awarded substantial damages....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Building Effective Health Care Partnerships: A Joint Venture Primer - November 3rd, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

A New Manatt Health Webinar Gives You a Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Joint Ventures That Drive Growth, Optimize Profits and Improve the Patient Experience. Joint ventures are becoming a mission-critical strategy for an...more

A&O Shearman

Arrest of helicopter for unpaid tax did not frustrate contract

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If a contract allocates the risk of a given event, it is unlikely that event will give rise to a defence of frustration....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

KITT meets Spartacus

Who would be responsible if KITT, the supercar of the famous TV series, were to cause an accident: the company that produced the car, the driver or maybe KITT itself?...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

L’avvocato di Supercar

Chi dovrebbe pagare i danni se KITT, la mitica Supercar della serie TV, provocasse un incidente? L’azienda che produce la macchina, il guidatore o magari la stessa KITT?...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The Need to Be Deliberate about Fraud Carve-Outs

Express Scripts: Delaware Supreme Court holds that an otherwise undefined “deliberate fraud” carve-out to an indemnification provision is limited to intentional fraud and does not include recklessness. Specific provisions...more

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