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California Employers and B2B Companies, Here’s a Sunset You’ll Want to Look Out For: Expiration of the CCPA Exemptions for HR Data and B2B Data

In just a few months, companies subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will need to start providing the same CCPA rights to their California employees and business-to-business (B2B) con...

Author(s): Christine Lyon, Virginie Lassez

  • data protection
  • data
  • us

The AAA updates its Commercial Arbitration Rules: What are the key changes?

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently issued amendments to its Commercial Arbitration Rules.  The Commercial Arbitration Rules are the AAA’s rules used for business-to-business disputes....

Author(s): Thomas Walsh, Christian Vandergeest, Peter Kim

  • arbitration
  • americas

Seven Key Considerations for a Reverse Stock Split by a Delaware Corporation

Given recent stock market declines, many listed companies currently trade at substantially reduced share prices relative to earlier in 2022. Reduced share prices can cause many challenges for a listed...

Author(s): Jeremy Barr, Valerie Ford Jacob, Pamela Marcogliese

  • sec
  • reverse stock split
  • stock market
  • nyse
  • nasdaq

SEC Adopts JOBS Act Inflation Adjustments: Increases Revenue Threshold at which Reporting Companies Lose EGC Status to $1.235 Billion

On September 9, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted inflation adjustments mandated by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (“JOBS Act”). As a result, an “emerging growt...

Author(s): Jeremy Barr, Elizabeth Bieber, Isaac Ellman

  • corporate governance
  • corporate
  • m&a

The DOJ Is Locked onto Heightened Antitrust Enforcement: ASSA Abloy / Spectrum Brands

On September 15, the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) filed an antitrust lawsuit to block ASSA ABLOY AB’s (ASSA ABLOY) proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of Spectrum Brands Holdings,...

Author(s): Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, Angela Landry, Eva Roney

  • antitrust and competition
  • m&a

New CFIUS Executive Order Reflects Evolved CFIUS National Security Risk Analysis

On 15 September 2022, President Biden signed Executive Order 14083 (Executive Order on Ensuring Robust Consideration of Evolving National Security Risks by CFIUS) directing CFIUS to take certain natio...

Author(s): Aimen Mir, Christine Laciak, Colin Costello, Timothy Swartz

  • cfius

Taking A Cue From the Brits, California Passes a New Privacy Law Regulating Online Services Likely to be Accessed by Minors

California is moving forward with more ground-breaking privacy legislation, most recently with its passage of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC”), which was signed by Governor News...

Author(s): Christine Lyon, Tarlan Bananzadeh

  • cybersecurity
  • data
  • data proection

Illumina/Grail: A Tale of Transatlantic Entropy

This isn’t the first time we’ve written about this US-focused transaction in the innovative markets for next generation gene sequencing and cancer screening tests – we covered its surprising developme...

Author(s): Thomas Lübbig, Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, Laura Onken, Lauren Vaca, Amaryllis Müller, Karen Slaney

  • antitrust and competition
  • merger control
  • regulatory
  • europe
  • united states

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