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On January 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission released draft Vertical Merger Guidelines for public comment. The new guidelines, which will replace the outdated 1984 Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines, are intended to assist the business...

Bracewell Partner Robert Nichols tackled the layers of drug testing laws and regulations affecting employers. Our webinar explored trends we see across the country and explain how to stay complaint no matter where your business operates. Special emphasis was given...

Leslie Selig Byrd and Amber Dodds discuss the increasing number of state laws and local ordinances requiring paid leave benefits to employees. Many of these require a minimum number of hours of accrued paid time off for illness or preventative...

On November 5, 2019, Bracewell attorneys Amy Karff Halevy and Becky Baker discussed the ways in which sexual harassment and discrimination laws are dramatically changing at the state and local level in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The webinar...

Contributing Author Dr. Raed Safadi, Chief Economic Advisor, Dubai Investment Development Agency On 23 September 2018, one of the most anticipated legal developments in the UAE was brought to life. The UAE issued Federal Decree-Law No. 19/2018 on Foreign Direct...

On 30 April 2019, the UAE Cabinet issued the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 31 of 2019 concerning Economic Substance Regulations in the UAE (“Regulations”). Why has the UAE issued the Regulations? The implementation of the Regulations is a result...

In a major policy shift, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice recently announced that it will now credit companies for effective corporate antitrust compliance programs in making charging decisions and penalty recommendations. In conjunction with this change, the...

Canada’s Competition Bureau (CCB) recently filed a challenge with the Canadian Competition Tribunal to unwind a U.S. private equity firm’s May 2019 acquisition of a company that offers reserves valuation and reporting software to Canadian oil and gas producers. Following...

Cyber criminals have targeted state and local governmental entities at an alarming rate. The threat and scale of cyber-attacks is unprecedented. Bracewell lawyers Phil Bezanson, Ed Fierro and David Springer will host a webinar to highlight the risks that cyber-attacks...

Copyright, Fortnite and the Ability to Protect How You Shake Your Groove Thing As originally published in The Intellectual Property Strategist The Supreme Court just crashed the copyright world’s latest dance party—stepping on the toes of a soiree of copyright...

Many employers, especially those operating in a number of different states, are troubled with how to effectively cope with new and widely varying state marijuana laws. Not only are the state laws that authorize medical or recreational marijuana use proliferating...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted final rules amending Regulation S-K and certain other rules and forms to modernize and simplify disclosure requirements. Among other matters, the amendments reduce and clarify the disclosures required in management’s discussion and analysis...

Washington could be the next U.S. state to enact consumer privacy legislation similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On Wednesday, the Washington state senate overwhelmingly approved the Washington Privacy Act, SB 5376 (the "WPA") which takes its...

Copyright owners cannot file infringement lawsuits until after the subject work has been granted registration by the U.S. Copyright Office. This unanimous decision from the Supreme Court today in Fourth Estate Pub. Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, 17-571 (U.S. Mar. 4...