Article
Published 02/08/2021
Services Labor and Employment
Alert
Published 02/05/2021
By Judith B. Kassel, Sunu M Pillai
Industries Construction
Strengthening Buy American statutes have been a rare area of bipartisan agreement in the current fractured political climate. In the final days of the Trump Administration, the Department of Defense (“DOD”), General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration jointly issued new regulations, amending the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) to implement Executive Order 13881, “Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials.” On January 25, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14005, “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of...
Alert
Published 02/04/2021
By Michael A. Finio
Services Antitrust
On February 1, the FTC gave notice that on February 2, new Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) thresholds would be published in the Federal Register, to take effect March 4, 2021. See Federal Register: Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7A of the Clayton Act . For purposes of determining whether an HSR filing is required, and as a result of the COVID-19 related economic downturn, the new thresholds are a reduction from 2020 thresholds, as follows: In addition, for purposes of the prohibition against interlocking directorates, competing corporations must have capital, surplus and undivided...
Blog Post
Published 02/04/2021
By Dena B. Calo, Anamika Roy
Article
Published 02/03/2021
Services Commercial Litigation | Force Majeure Litigation | Litigation
Blog Post
Published 02/03/2021
By Ronald R. Fieldstone, Jay Rosen
Article
Published 02/02/2021
Industries Telecommunications
Blog Post
Published 02/02/2021
By Kevin M. Levy
Services : Labor and Employment
Alert
Published 02/01/2021
By William W. Warren
Services Regulatory Compliance and Government
Pennsylvania has required construction contractors to utilize minority and women businesses in state-funded construction since 1987. Within a short period of time, a parallel program was adopted for service contracting, where entities identified as “Socially or Economically Restricted Businesses” were given a degree of opportunity to provide services as prime vendors or more often as subcontractors. Of particular interest has been the impact of the services program in the information technology (“IT”) arena. In the intervening years, the program to cultivate IT services provided by small...
Consolidated Article
Published 01/29/2021
Services Securities Transactions and Regulations
Books
Published 2021
By Justin Ettelson, Michael Gold, Mark Gruhin, Andrew Barris, Jourdan Garvey
Services Securities Transactions and Regulations
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr securities attorneys Justin B. Ettelson, Michael A. Gold, Mark I. Gruhin, Andrew F. Barris and Jourdan S. Garvey have co-edited the 2021 edition of SEC Reporting Rules books.* For those responsible for filing reports with the SEC for public companies, the 2021 SEC Reporting Rules books are particularly valuable because they present the rules in one place in a user-friendly format. The books interweave Regulation S-K or the proxy rules, as applicable, with the text of the disclosure form, thus eliminating having to use multiple sources to get the full disclosure...
Alert
Published 01/27/2021
By Michael A. Finio
Services Antitrust
In September 2020, the FTC announced that it would be proposing a series of changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification regulatory regime with the anticipated publication of both a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) and Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”). Both were published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2020, triggering a 60-day comment period, which is set to expire on February 1, 2021. The published notices cover different ground, summarized as follows: NPRM : Contains two important changes: the first requiring filing parties to make additional...
Blog Post
Published 01/27/2021
By Jason Tremblay, Alexander Reich
Services : Labor and Employment
Article
Published 01/22/2021
Industries Real Estate
Alert
Published 01/21/2021
By Bruce D. Armon, Samantha Gross
Industries Health Care | HIPAA / Health Information Privacy and Security
In one of the final health care-related actions by the Trump Administration, on January 15, 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Excellus Health Plan, Inc. agreed to pay $5.1 million dollars and implement a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. Excellus is a New York State-based health insurer that provides health insurance coverage to more than 1.5 million people. On September 9, 2015, Excellus...
Alert
Published 01/19/2021
By Michael A. Finio
Industries Insurance
​On January 13, 2021, President Trump signed the “Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020” ( " CHIRA” - H.B. 1418, now Public Law 116-327 .) which partially repealed the 1940s-era “business of insurance” exemption [1] from the antitrust laws. While certain specific activities are not included in the repeal, CHIRA generally eliminates the exemption for the “business of health insurance (including the business of dental insurance and limited-scope dental benefits).” Clearly, the immediate sea change – the elimination of the antitrust exemption – is of significance, but opining just yet...