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Icy Hot: Texas Policyholders With Losses from Winter’s Late-Season Freeze Must Also Prepare for Early-Season Hurricanes

SEC Gets Cyber-Serious About Disclosures

UAE and Israel Sign Tax Treaty

Change at the Interior Department: A Look Ahead

April 6, 2021

President Biden has lost no time in seeking to fulfill campaign promises pertaining to energy, the environment, and natural resources. Many of these are within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, including a strong push for renewable energy...

A Renewed Regional Alliance?

April 5, 2021

The Oath

Article originally appeared in The Oath Issue 101 | March 2021 With the lifting of the Qatar embargo previously imposed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, questions are being asked whether trading relationships between the three countries will return to...

Prepare For More Financial Scrutiny Ahead

March 31, 2021

StrategicCFO360

Article originally published on StrategicCFO360 CFOs already grappling with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty about its impact on labor, real estate and other long-term costs will have several new challenges to consider in the coming year. SEC...

ESG/SEC Disclosure and Implications

March 30, 2021

If you follow the trade press, it seems that every other article of late is focused on this topic. There have been so many developments (and different takes on those developments) that it has become hard to keep track of...

Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Property Owners' Statutory Protections

March 29, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court’s recent decision in Los Compadres Pescadores, L.L.C. v. Valdez provides new guidance regarding a commercial property owner’s protections against liability for injuries occurring on construction sites. Chapter 95 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code...

Employment Background Check Class-Action Litigation: Avoiding the Seemingly Minor Mistakes Fueling a Costly Wave of New Lawsuits

March 25, 2021

Federal courts, most notably the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, have recently taken an increasingly hyper-technical view of employer obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in conducting applicant background checks, including criminal background checks. The result has been...

Secondary Market in UK Offshore Wind — Spinnakers Out

March 24, 2021

LexisNexis

Article originally appeared on LexisNexis In the News The M&A secondary market for UK offshore wind assets is taking off. Despite the pandemic, 2020 saw significant transactions in the UK offshore wind market fill the pages of the financial press...

FERC Refines DER Wholesale Market Participation Rules

March 24, 2021

Energy Legal Blog®

On March 18, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued an order on rehearing of its landmark final rule, Order No. 2222, pertaining to the participation of distributed energy resources (“DER”) through an aggregator in FERC-jurisdictional...

FERC Reverses Broadview on Rehearing; Reinstates Focus on Output in Evaluating 80 MW Cap for QFs

March 24, 2021

Energy Legal Blog®

On March 19, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or “Commission”) issued an Order Addressing Arguments Raised on Rehearing and Setting Aside Prior Order in Broadview Solar, LLC, 174 FERC ¶ 61,199 (2021) (“Broadview 2021”). The order, which...

Scaling Platforms Needed in Africa

March 24, 2021

Project Finance International

Originally published in Project Finance International, March 10, 2021 Introduction Africa is often touted as the land of opportunity for private equity. However, private equity players looking to deploy capital in the market require scale in order to achieve the...

FERC Delays Implementation of New MBR Database Reporting Requirements and Clarifies Obligation To Report Upstream Owners

March 23, 2021

Energy Legal Blog®

On March 18, 2021, in response to a petition seeking clarification regarding the treatment of certain institutional investors for purposes of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC” or...

Winter 2021 Edition, NABL Column Federal Securities Law

March 22, 2021

The Bond Buyer

Article originally appeared in The Bond Buyer. Transition Former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton’s last day at the SEC was December 23, 2020.[1] Commissioner Elad L. Roisman was designated Acting Chairman by then President Trump on December 23, 2020, effective December...

Delaware Supreme Court Applies Delaware Law Even When Insured Is Headquartered Elsewhere

March 22, 2021

In a unanimous decision, the Delaware Supreme Court recently held that Delaware law applies to a D&O policy issued to a Delaware corporation, ruling that the place of incorporation outweighed other factors such as where the company is headquartered, where...

The Battle of the Bills Begins: Proposed Federal Data Privacy Legislation Aims to End Patchwork Problem But Increases Enforcement

March 18, 2021

After years of advocacy from both sides of the aisle and growing concerns about challenges created by state-based solutions, 2021 is poised to be a bellwether year for Congressional debate over federal data privacy regulation. On March 10th, Representative Suzan...

The Bipartisan SCALE Act: Increasing Investments in CCUS

March 17, 2021

Today, March 17, 2021, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced groundbreaking legislation aimed at advancing investments in large-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. The Storing CO2 and Lowering Emissions (SCALE) Act is cosponsored in the Senate by Chris...

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