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Carey | August 2024

On May 7th, 2024, the President of Chile sent a bill (the “Bill”) to the Chamber of Deputies aimed at reactivating tourism and promoting the audiovisual industry, in order to revitalize one of the most affected sectors by the Covid-19 pandemic and to close the gaps that still exist in the arrival of foreign tourists to our country ...

Mamo TCV Advocates | August 2024

  On 30th July 2024, when considering Application number 88/21/2, the Court of Appeal was tasked with deciding two primary issues and grievances brought forward by the appellants against the decision of the First Court. These were the appropriate multiplier for calculating the victim’s loss of future earnings, and moral damages following Act XIII of 2018 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | August 2024

A private sale may start an inventor’s one-year filing clock, but it likely won’t save a patentee from an intervening prior art reference. On July 31, 2024, in a precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) elaborated on the prior art public sale exception set forth in 35 U.S.C. §102(b)(2)(B).  Specifically, the CAFC affirmed that a secret sale of a product would not be sufficient to pre-date a prior art reference under 35 U.S ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | August 2024

In the calendar year 2024, roughly 32.6 million companies will be required by the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) to report personal information about their beneficial owners. The report must be made to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The information below provides an overview of the requirements for our business clients that were created or registered prior to January 1, 2024 ...

Shoosmiths LLP | August 2024

As promised by the new government, the consultation on the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has landed and now runs to 24 September. The Labour administration has clearly been busy in the lead up to the election, as the work that has gone into this is not the endeavour of less than a month in power. There’s a significant amount to analyse ...

Shoosmiths LLP | August 2024

The much-anticipated revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published for consultation on 30 July, with the consultation running until 24 September. The consultation document extends more widely than changes to the NPPF itself, centred around the three pillars of stability, investment and reform. This article looks at the proposed reform. It should be said at the outset that much in the NPPF remains as before and the reforms might be regarded as tweaks ...

Shoosmiths LLP | August 2024

Whilst the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) contains a number of potentially game changing new policy proposals, many of the changes aim to re-wind the clock to the pre-December 2023 version of the NPPF. This is to encourage short-term growth through restored stability in the planning system ...

Carey | August 2024

Subsequent to the amendments to the Mining Code and other mining legislation that were introduced by Laws No. 21,420, of February 2022, and No. 21,649, of December 2023, on August 2nd there were published in the Official Gazette the Decrees No. 9 and 10 of the Ministry of Mining, which approved the Regulations on the obligation to submit geological information, and amended the Mining Code Regulations, respectively. Decree No ...

Mamo TCV Advocates | August 2024

  We are pleased to issue our ninth edition of the Regulatory Compliance Quarterly Updates. These updates are intended to keep Maltese regulated entities informed of regulatory changes and developments taking place in the local financial services space. In this issue, we focus on the sector specific and cross-sectoral regulatory updates relating to investment services, CSPs, fintech, insurance undertakings and insurance intermediaries ...

Carey Olsen | August 2024

Carey Olsen advises on the establishment of a new corporate structure to domicile Ferguson in the US by way of a Jersey merger As a result of the merger which took place on 1 August 2024, Ferguson, which has a market capitalisation of over £30 billion, has completed its transition to establish a new corporate structure and ultimate parent company domiciled in the United States ...

Mamo TCV Advocates | August 2024

  Mamo TCV Advocates is pleased to announce that Dr Veronica Grixti will be appointed as a partner of the firm with effect from 1st August 2024. Veronica obtained her Doctoral degree in Law from the University of Malta in 2004 and a Master of Law degree in Magister Juris (European & Comparative Law) in 2005 and joined the firm’s corporate and general commercial and insurance team as an associate in 2005 ...

Lavery Lawyers | August 2024

Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code and the Canada Industrial Relations Board Regulations, 2012, was passed on June 20, 2024, introducing anti-replacement-worker provisions to the Canada Labour Code. While anti-replacement-worker legislation has existed in Quebec since 1977, nothing of the sort existed for federal jurisdiction employers ...

Mamo TCV Advocates | July 2024

  After a two-and-a-half-year legislative process, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) was published in the EU Official Journal on 5th July 2024, marking a paradigm shift in corporate sustainability. In recent years, companies have increasingly faced societal and legal pressures to adopt more sustainable business practices, typically centered around environmental protection ...

Mamo TCV Advocates | July 2024

  On the 12th July 2024, the Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) published a Circular  introducing new passporting forms for (re)insurance undertakings as part of the MFSA’s efforts to address new requirements emanating from the Cross Border Notification Platform launched in February 2023 ...

Buchalter | July 2024

July 31, 2024 By: Thomas O'Connell “It’s Monday, April 7, 2014. It is a cool, mostly cloudy morning at an independently owned and operated McDonald’s in Los Angeles, California. That day, two employees allegedly “engaged in concerted activities with other employees for the purposes of mutual aid and protection, by discussing a disciplinary incident with co-workers ...

Feeling like an imposter can be common for young professionals, especially for those who are the first in their families to enter the legal field. How can first-generation professionals more easily navigate their paths forward? In this episode of The Lawyer’s Edge podcast, Elise Holtzman sits down with Alé Dalton, Partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, to explore her path to partnership and the unique challenges faced by first-generation professionals ...

Carey | July 2024

On July 25, 2024, the Financial Market Commission ("CMF"), and after a public consultation process, the CMF published General Rule No. 515 (the “NCG 515”) that establishes a new communication channel between the supervised entities and the CMF and General Rule No. 516 (the “NCG 516”) that establishes common criteria to report material and reserved matters ...

Buchalter | July 2024

By: Matthew T. Drenan, Charles F. Whitman, & Alicia A. Belock As temperatures continue to rise these upcoming weeks, employers take heed of pertinent health and safety laws to ensure workplace compliance. In anticipation of further shifts in the regulatory landscape favoring additional worker protections, we take this opportunity to review existing and imminent regulations during times of extreme heat ...

Shoosmiths LLP | July 2024

The Welsh Government has given some insight into its direction of travel in terms of implementing the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) in Wales with the publication of the Building Safety Act 2022 Handbook for Wales Design and Construction Phase. This confirms that the BSA will be implemented in Wales in phases. The handbook summarises the work that has commenced in the first stage including: defining what is a higher-risk building in Wales for the design and construction phase ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | July 2024

In another update to the Federal Trade Commission’s (the “FTC”) Non-Compete Ban (the “Rule”), a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled against ATS Tree Services, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, et al.[1] denying ATS’ motion for a preliminary injunction ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | July 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case that may have far reaching implications for businesses facing consumer protection claims in the state. The Court has granted allocator in Halpern v. Ricoh U.S.A., Inc ...

Shoosmiths LLP | July 2024

Shoosmiths hosts a panel discussion examining Greater Manchester's Places for Everyone spatial strategy following its formal adoption, focusing on the transition from the strategy phase to implementation and delivery. Places for Everyone was formally adopted on 21 March 2024 after a decade in the making ...

Carey Olsen | July 2024

Cyber reporting requirements for Bermuda insurers, insurance managers and insurance intermediaries following the CrowdStrike faulty software update Key reporting obligations Prompt notification Bermuda insurers, insurance managers and insurance intermediaries (including brokers, agents and insurance marketplace providers) (each, a "Registered Person") must forthwith notify the BMA upon coming to the knowledge, or having a reason to believe, that a cyber reporting event has occurred ...

Carey Olsen | July 2024

Carey Olsen advises Mercer Park Opportunities Corp. on its US$200 million IPO Mercer Park Opportunities granted the underwriter, Canaccord Genuity Corp., a non-transferable over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 3,000,000 Class A Restricted Voting Units at the same price per unit, exercisable within 30 days following the offering's closing ...

Carey Olsen | July 2024

Guernsey corporate and finance update Q2 2024 NAV Facilities for Guernsey Funds: What’s the noise about? As late as 2022, the net asset value (“NAV”) credit facility was seen as a relatively underutilised sector of the fund financing product offering. However, the interest and demand for NAV facilities has sharply increased with sponsor borrowers wishing to take advantage of the benefits that NAV facilities can offer in the current fund raising and M&A environment ...

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