For your convenience, here’s a roundup of recent legal commentary and analysis on a broad range of issues facing companies doing business in and with China, on data privacy and protection, merger control regulations, employment law, intellectual property, corruption, and more: Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Issues Draft Provisions Governing Protection of Personal… Read more »
On February 1, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission published a proposed rule that would formalize procedures for the withdrawal of merger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. The changes are intended to both codify existing practices, and free up agency resources that would otherwise be spent investigating transactions that are no longer being pursued. But not… Read more »
Welcome to our latest Corporate Law Report. You know what to do: Watch the video overview above and, for any topics that interest you, go deeper with the legal analysis and commentary below>> 1. Need-to-know – in the workplace: Employers Should Use Revised FCRA Disclosure for Employees and Job Applicants – Sutherland Asbill & Brennan… Read more »
Cooking up an international M&A deal? Your first assignment – check in with the celebrity chefs. Like the corporate development heads at Honeywell, Cisco, and Johnson & Johnson and the chair of law firm Pepper Hamilton’s international practice. Their secret recipe involves equal parts due diligence, integration, and access to talent, tossed together with perseverance,… Read more »
A cautionary tale kicks off this latest edition of Doing Business in China: Sixing Liu, a Chinese national with U.S. residency, was arrested and charged with export control violations when returning from a trip to China one year ago. From law firm Miller Canfield: “Liu allegedly took export-controlled technical data on military technology (Controlled Data)… Read more »
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new set of reporting requirements for the acquisition or transfer of pharmaceutical patents. From the FTC press release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on proposed changes to the premerger notification rules that could require companies in the pharmaceutical industry to report proposed acquisitions… Read more »
What’s on your mind? ICANN’s generic top-level domain names, HIPAA compliance and violations, the SCOTUS RadLAX ruling, the EU Cookie Directive, that’s what (and more!). For your reference, the most-read Corporate Law Report posts in June, 2012: 1. HIPAA Compliance: 6 Audit Questions (and Answers) for Covered Entities “Late last year, members of the Senate… Read more »
From lawyers and law firms on JD Supra, recent advisories on a range of legal considerations: High Noon: The Italians try to play solo the Health Claims game (K&L Gates LLP): “On November 27, 2009, the Italian Government notified a draft regulation on the use of substances other than vitamins and minerals in food supplements… Read more »
For your reference, a roundup of recent advisories on matters to do with international mergers and acquisitions, as written by leading law firms on JD Supra: General Guide to the UK Takeover Regime – June 2012 (Skadden Arps): A 44-page guide: “The Takeover Panel is the principal regulator of the mergers and acquisitions process in… Read more »
“According to Chairman Jon Leibowitz, the FTC will continue to scrutinize hospital mergers that could limit patient choice… Based on Chairman Leibowitz’s comments, aggressive and resource-intensive challenges to hospital mergers … are likely to continue.” (Healthcare Tops the Agenda of U.S. Antitrust Enforcers by Morgan Lewis) Hospital mergers are on the rise, and the Federal… Read more »
For your reference, a roundup of recent Chinese legal news and developments of interest to multinationals active in the country: China’s Parliament Adopts Revision to Criminal Procedure Law (Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP) “On March 14, 2012, the fifth session of the National People’s Congress adopted the latest revision to China’s Criminal Procedure Law… Read more »
For your reference, a roundup of recent China-focused advisories from leading global law firms, covering a broad range of corporate issues: China Loses Raw Materials Case In World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body; Possible Implications For China’s Rare Earth Metals Quotas (King & Spalding) “The World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) Appellate Body found that China’s export restrictions… Read more »
On January 24, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced its annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act merger notification thresholds. From antitrust lawyers on JD Supra, here’s a look at the new limits: FTC Announces Increased Hart-Scott-Rodino Thresholds (King & Spalding) “As a result of the indexing: The $66 million minimum transaction value filing threshold has increased… Read more »
Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules that toughen the standards for companies going public through a reverse merger that seek to become listed on any of the three major US listing markets: New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Amex; and NASDAQ. For your reference, here’s what you need to know about… Read more »
Buying or selling a closely held business, writes Jackson Walker’s Byron Egan, “typically revolves around an agreement between the buyer and the selling entity, and sometimes its owners, setting forth the terms of the deal.” From that starting point, Egan has written an in-depth, if not comprehensive, analysis of asset acquisitions, how to structure them,… Read more »
