Managing Litigation Risk During the Business Lifecycle, Part 4: M&A Transactions with Government Contractors
JD Supra: Mergers
JUNE 11, 2025
Transactions that involve government contracts carry a unique set of challenges.
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JD Supra: Mergers
JUNE 11, 2025
Transactions that involve government contracts carry a unique set of challenges.
JD Supra: Mergers
JUNE 10, 2025
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving government contractors present unique challenges and considerations that require meticulous due diligence. government. This blog post outlines some of the basic best practices for due diligence when acquiring or selling a business that performs U.S. By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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JD Supra: Mergers
APRIL 29, 2025
At a time of marked geopolitical uncertainty, governments around Europe are committing to meaningful increases in defence spending, whilst also looking to private capital and investment to supplement public funds.
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 3, 2025
The Financial Markets Standards Board has published a consultation on its transparency draft of its statement of good practice on the governance of sustainability-linked products. SLPs are products whose financial and/or structural characteristics can vary depending on whether the user (i.e.,
JD Supra: Mergers
MAY 29, 2025
In this episode, Mayer Brown partners Andrew Noreuil and Brian Massengill discuss this years amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law, which have fundamentally altered the landscape for conflicted transactions.
JD Supra: Mergers
AUGUST 7, 2024
federal government both increased its spending in the area and the speed with which it adopted guidelines on the utilization of AI more generally. As general interest and investment in AI has accelerated since the initial public launch of ChatGPT, so too has the U.S. This tracks other actions outside the U.S.,
JD Supra: Mergers
AUGUST 14, 2024
Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general across the country and local government agencies and legislative bodies, with links to primary resources.
JD Supra: Mergers
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
The Small Business Administration (SBA) recently issued a proposed rule (Rule) that would significantly change a government contractor’s obligations to recertify its size and socioeconomic status under set-aside contracts and the effect of such recertifications.
JD Supra: Mergers
AUGUST 5, 2024
This briefing is the seventh in our series of briefings on corporate governance and is designed to provide a synopsis of topical corporate governance matters impacting companies in the United Kingdom. This briefing tracks developments identified in our previous briefings and outlines new matters of interest.
JD Supra: Mergers
AUGUST 7, 2023
This article discusses compliance “Buy America” provisions in federal procurement laws and how the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) implement some of those commitments in government contracts.
JD Supra: Mergers
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Part 42 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) addresses the contract administration and audit services for federal Government contracts. As we discussed in a prior Alert, parties buying or selling a business must consider how to properly transfer the seller’s contracts to the buyer. By: Smith Anderson
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Strengthening Board Control - OpenAI is exploring governance changes that would grant its nonprofit board enhanced voting rights to prevent a hostile takeover by Elon Musk. This move follows Musks $97.4 billion bid, which was rejected by OpenAIs board, and his legal efforts to block its transition to a for-profit entity.
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Florida recently implemented amendments to its Securities and Investor Protection Act (Chapter 517), bringing significant changes to the regulatory framework governing private placements, investment advisors, and exemptions for institutional investors.
JD Supra: Mergers
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
The Canadian government has proposed giving the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry the ability to direct the Competition Bureau to conduct market studies with the ability to compel production of related documents and testimony from market participants, among other amendments. By: Stikeman Elliott LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The UK government has released its latest annual report on the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act, covering the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
JD Supra: Mergers
DECEMBER 7, 2023
The Australian Government has commenced consultation on options to reform Australia's merger regime, including a shift to a mandatory suspensory regime. Businesses have until 19 January 2024 to respond to the consultation. By: White & Case LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
government’s funding bills are now set to expire on March 1 or March 8, 2024. It is therefore possible once again that there will soon be a government shutdown, with important consequences for the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing process and the running of the HSR waiting period. By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The Australian Government (the Government) opened consultation on Australia’s proposed merger notification thresholds. The Consultation Paper proposes a notification regime that consists of four different thresholds—two based on monetary thresholds and two based on market concentration. By: K&L Gates LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
OCTOBER 17, 2024
In Brief - On 10 October 2024, the Australian Government introduced a bill into Parliament for Australia to enact a mandatory and suspensory competition merger clearance regime. By: K&L Gates LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 25, 2024
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we explore 10 important trends that will help general counsel and boards navigate the year ahead.
JD Supra: Mergers
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The Situation: On September 10, 2024, the UK government published the third National Security and Investment Act 2021 Annual Report ("2023/2024 Annual Report"), revealing longer processing times for foreign direct investment ("FDI") reviews, but lower rates of Phase 2 call-ins and conditions being imposed. By: Jones Day
JD Supra: Mergers
OCTOBER 23, 2024
At a meeting of business leaders and global investors in London in mid-October, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the audience that his government would "rip up" Britain's bureaucracy in a bid to unlock the "shock and awe of investment."
JD Supra: Mergers
MARCH 27, 2024
As the UK Government seeks to put sustainability at the heart of the beautiful game, in this article we consider: The Bill’s introduction to Parliament represents the culmination of several years of UK Government activity focused on increasing regulation in men’s football. By: Allen & Overy LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
MAY 15, 2024
The Situation: The Australian government has restated its commitment to foreign investment and announced procedural reforms to Australia's foreign investment framework.
JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 9, 2025
On December 17, 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a Final Rule (Rule") that will dramatically change the landscape for the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) market for both large and small businesses.
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
To address the limitations of the current temporary marketing permission regime (“TMPR”), which permits EEA funds marketed in the UK before Brexit to continue to access the UK market, the UK government introduced the overseas funds regime (“OFR”). By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
MAY 22, 2025
As AI companies power breakthroughs in biotech, healthcare, defense, and critical infrastructure, the stakes for companies acquiring businesses handling proprietary data, biotech research, medical records, trade secrets, critical technology or government intelligence have never been higher. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
APRIL 11, 2024
With increasing variation of transactions comes increasing variation of equity providers and their requests and requirements related to the governance of the investment vehicles they share with their independent sponsor partners. By: Holland & Knight LLP
JD Supra: Mergers
APRIL 16, 2024
Canadian businesses involved in the interactive digital media sector, including video games and augmented reality, should be aware of the implications of the Investment Canada Act and the Canadian government’s recent policy statements on their efforts to attract investment from foreign investors.
The New York Times: Banking
OCTOBER 7, 2024
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JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The UK government is considering steps to make the regime more business-friendly, while maintaining and refining essential national security protections. The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA), the UK’s first standalone regime for screening investments on national security grounds, has been in force for two years.
Deal Lawyers
JUNE 11, 2025
It shares the following key takeaways from these campaigns: Governance Still Drives Outcomes: ISS’s support for Elliott at Phillips 66 was heavily governance-focused. Boards must address entrenchment, refreshment, and […]
JD Supra: Mergers
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Beginning January 22, 2024, federal corporations will be required to provide certain information from their registers of individuals with significant control (“ISC Registers”) to the federal government, which will then enter that information into what is to become a publicly accessible database.
JD Supra: Mergers
JUNE 5, 2025
Advanced with the leadership and guidance of sponsor Assemblymember Joe Dalia, AB 239 updates and supplements Title 7 of the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS), which governs business entities, including corporations and limited liability companies. Joe Lombardo has signedAssembly Bill No. 239 (AB 239). By: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
CNBC: Investing
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
TD Cowen identified government contractors with the highest amount of dollars obligated in fiscal year 2023, both overall and by individual federal department.
JD Supra: Mergers
AUGUST 20, 2024
In our previous client alert, The Rise of the “Occasional Activist,” we discussed the increase in shareholder activism through 2022 by “occasional activists” – investors who are not funds dedicated to activist strategies or who do not regularly employ activist tactics, such as institutional investors and individuals, including company insiders.
JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Introduction - The latest EY-Parthenon Deal Barometer reveals an anticipated 12% increase in corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the year 2024, with more than a third of CEOs actively planning to make an acquisition in the next 12 months. By: Onna Technologies, Inc.
Deal Lawyers
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JD Supra: Mergers
DECEMBER 19, 2023
With the passing of Bill C-56, the most recent in an ongoing series of amendments to the Competition Act have now been enacted (with more expected to follow). The Commissioner of Competition has been pushing for amendments to the Act for years, following several significant losses in front of the Competition Tribunal and Federal Court of Appeal.
JD Supra: Mergers
APRIL 25, 2024
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JD Supra: Mergers
JANUARY 22, 2025
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JD Supra: Mergers
JULY 26, 2024
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JD Supra: Mergers
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JD Supra: Mergers
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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