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On June 20, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Texas Senate Bill 140 into law, taking effect on Sept. 1, 2025. Among other things, this bill expands the scope of Texas’ telephone solicitation legislation (the Texas Telephone...more
In a summer of sweeping immigration updates, the Big Beautiful Bill appears to now reshape how employers manage Form I-9 compliance for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries. On July 22, 2025, the Federal Register...more
On February 7, 2025, Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed into law Delaware House Bill 40 (“HB 40”), which amends Chapter 459, Volume 84 of the Laws of Delaware and Titles 6, 29 and 30 of the Delaware Code relating to the...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
President Biden signed into law H.R. 2617, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022. This new legislation includes the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (MFFMA), which amends the amounts and...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (the MFFMA), which will modify the current structure of merger filing fees payable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act...more
On Dec. 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 2617, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.” Included within H.R. 2617 is The Merger Filing Fee...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, into law, which includes the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022 (MFFMA) and other antitrust-related priorities. This legislation...more
Congress’s year-end omnibus legislation that funds the federal government, which was signed by President Biden on December 29, 2022, included three pieces of legislation—the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, the State...more
Congress passes the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, changing Hart-ScottRodino Act filing fees and adding disclosure requirements for certain foreign subsidies. On December 23, 2022, as part of a broader...more
President Biden signed the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, bringing notable changes to the merger filing process and state antitrust enforcement. The Act does the following: 1) Dramatically increases merger...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 also known as The Omnibus Funding Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill includes the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act which provides...more
On December 23, 2022, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (the “Act”) with bipartisan support. In addition to numerous spending provisions totaling $1.7 trillion, the Act includes antitrust-related...more
Introduction of filing fees in concentration notifications and transposition of the ECN+ Directive into Belgian law - On March 7, 2022, changes to both the Belgian Code of Economic Law (CEL) as well as the Belgian Criminal...more
After five years of uncertainty and speculation, a date has been set for Canada’s drastic new trademark laws to come into force. Five months from today, on June 17, 2019, brand owners and local, national and global companies...more
On August 13, 2018, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 that contains the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA), the first significant reform...more
This week, you have likely heard about FIRRMA, the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, the law that will expand CFIUS. We have written about a number of aspects of the new law as it was being made, including the...more
CFIUS will continue to have broad jurisdiction to conduct national security reviews of foreign investments that could result in foreign control of a U.S. business. When regulations implementing FIRRMA become effective within...more