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Key Takeaways from Airline Economics Dublin 2025

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The 2025 Airline Economics Conference in Dublin highlighted several key trends and challenges currently shaping the aviation industry, with a particular focus on the leasing sector, sustainability, profitability, and...more

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Legal Guide to Pre-Enforcement Steps Under Jersey and Guernsey law

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In September 2020, only months into what we now know was to become a two-year Global Pandemic, we looked at what Covid-19 might mean for businesses and their creditors. At that time we had seen some high profile casualties –...more

Paul Hastings LLP

No Longer a ‘Nice to Have’: ESG and What it Means for Life Sciences Companies

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In April 2022, the U.K. Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, announced plans to prohibit the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (“NHS”) from buying goods and services connected with forced labour or human trafficking. This...more

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Cargotec/Konecranes: Failed Shipping Equipment Merger Illustrates Aggressive UK/U.S. Enforcement and Increased Skepticism of...

On March 29, 2022, global container handling equipment providers [Cargotec and Konecranes] abandoned their proposed $5 billion merger after the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the U.S. Department of...more

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Employees united this holiday season

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As we enter the second holiday season of the pandemic, restaurants, stores, and hotels have had to rethink consumer health and safety, innovating to attract and retain customers. But they also have been forced to rethink...more

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Will Santa’s presents get through this Christmas?

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With the UK preparing for its first post-Brexit Christmas, COVID-19 flaring up in Central Europe, and demand for products dramatically changed around the world, supply chain issues threatened to spoil holiday plans. Last...more

White & Case LLP

Logistics deals deliver for investors as supply chains struggle

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Logistics, packaging and shipments companies are using M&A to expand their service coverage and future proof - If 2020 was defined by the humanitarian crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, then 2021 has been the year of...more

Morgan Lewis

Directors’ Duties to Consider Supply Chains

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Directors have significant ongoing duties towards the company they lead, including taking the changing factual landscape into account. This should include learning lessons from the recent disruption of global supply chains....more

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UK M&A reaches new highs despite headwinds

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Favorable valuations are fueling opportunistic purchases by overseas bidders- Spiraling COVID rates, supply chain issues and food and fuel shortages have all hit the headlines in the months since the end of the Brexit...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Investing in European Healthcare - What's on the Horizon for 2022? - Regulatory and Legal Changes

Today’s global healthcare marketplace is marked by unprecedented transformation. The seismic shifts in healthcare delivery and drug development during COVID-19 have, in 2021, continued to demonstrate the power and capacity...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Scrutinising Supply Chains - New Tools for PE

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Sponsors should consider leveraging technologies and diligence practices to tackle today’s increasingly complex supply chains. Global supply chains have come under significant pressure in recent years, compounded by the...more

Hogan Lovells

COVID-19 Report for Life Sciences and Health Care Companies (UPDATED)

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In Tuesday's Report: Moderna announces vaccine efficacy, Fauci concerned about presidential transition, testing labs raise supply chain alarm, impact of COVID-19 on insolvency and arbitration in the U.K., and a podcast on...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, November 2020 # 9

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In Washington: Two public health experts on President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 task force rejected the idea of broad “lockdowns” like those seen in the spring designed to slow skyrocketing case numbers. Celine Gounder told...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Finding the ‘S’ in ESG: Boardroom and Employee Considerations

Investors have historically overlooked social factors amid a focus on the environmental and governance counterparts as they assess the merit of an investment. This may have been due in part to the difficulty in quantifying...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Human Rights Due Diligence: Increasing Regulatory Pressure for Clean Supply Chains

- There is increasing regulatory, commercial and media attention in the U.K. and the EU regarding the role of human rights in company supply chains. - The U.K. and the EU are introducing specific measures around human...more

K&L Gates LLP

COVID-19: The UK Logistics Sector: Future M&A Trends in a Post-Pandemic Environment

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Introduction - Nothing focuses the mind more than when you cannot obtain food which, as Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells us, is the first building block of humanity's motivation (although it’s currently unclear where toilet...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Hand Sanitizer: Pathways to Market in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK and Europe

The demand for hand sanitizer has risen so sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic that many companies have shifted their production to help meet the needs of governments, medical facilities, health care practitioners and...more

Hogan Lovells

Force majeure claims in future waves of COVID-19: four key actions

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As countries emerge from lockdown, talk turns to The Return of COVID-19. Here’s how to succeed in future force majeure claims and stop your projects from becoming what sounds like a second-rate horror movie....more

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The Road to Recovery? Cabinet Office releases PPN 04/20

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On 9th June the Cabinet Office released its latest procurement guidance to Contracting Authorities dealing with Covid-19 issues in their supply chain. PPN 04/20 is the follow up to PPN 02/20; which urged Contracting...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Stress and Distress: CFO Checklist

Three months into the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United Kingdom, there are clearly many unknowns as businesses seek a return to normality or, at the very least, economic stability. Such uncertainty may...more

Jones Day

How EU and UK Trademark Owners Can Prevent Unauthorised Price Gouging

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The Background: Manufacturers and brand owners of personal protective equipment ("PPE") and other "essential" items have discovered unauthorised third parties reselling their products at vastly inflated prices, including on...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - May 2020

Industry Expert Insights - We reached out to one of our Lex Mundi partners and a well-known expert in the United Arab Emirates in the energy and legal industries to get his thoughts on the current energy climate. ...more

Jones Day

Trade Controls in the EU: COVID-19 Measures at a Glance

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In response to the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, the European Union ("EU"), various Member States and the United Kingdom have adopted trade control measures aimed at avoiding shortages and ensuring the availability...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

COVID-19 Client Primer | UK Medical Device Product Liability

ANALYSIS - Product Liability Risks for Medical Devices in the UK - In order to fast-track the development, manufacture and supply of key medical equipment and devices vital in the fight against COVID-19, governments,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

COVID-19 UK: Energy – Key Takeaways from the Energy Sector under Lockdown: Month 1 – Update

As we draw an end to the first month of the UK lockdown, we have seen committed efforts by the government and regulatory bodies towards addressing the ongoing effects of COVID-19 in a pragmatic and supportive manner. ...more

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