Editor’s Note - Dear Readers, Our collaboration with guest authors continues to ramp up, this time with an author from half way around the world! Welcome to yet another enthralling edition of Plugged-In, where we hear from...more
Editor’s Note - Happy New Year to all our readers. Plugged-In had an excellent kick-off year in 2023 with all our editions being well received both internally and externally, and led to new collaboration with guest authors...more
I hope that everyone is having a great start to the holiday season. To kick off the festive fervor, in this edition, we’re featuring a guest article from a fellow EV enthusiast and long-term M&A advisor, Matthew Miller,...more
11/22/2023
/ Acquisitions ,
Automotive Industry ,
Charging Stations ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Infrastructure ,
Investment ,
Manufacturers ,
Mergers ,
Motor Vehicles ,
OEM ,
Supply Chain
The rapid proliferation of EV charging stations on commercial properties – in apartment complexes, at offices, hotels and shopping centers, entertainment venues and recreational sites, public parking lots and even hospitals...more
9/29/2023
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Charging Stations ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Forced Labor ,
Fossil Fuel ,
Motor Vehicles ,
OEM ,
Popular ,
Property Owners ,
Renewable Energy ,
Supply Chain ,
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
This is the sixth edition of Plugged-In, our monthly EV newsletter. In the last six months, we have covered multiple topics such as the United States’ decoupling agenda from China (and how that may not work in the...more
6/29/2023
/ Automotive Industry ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Ford Motor ,
Foreign Workers ,
Highly-Skilled Workers Visa ,
Immigrants ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Infrastructure ,
Job Creation ,
Motor Vehicles ,
NAFTA ,
Popular ,
TN-Visas ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
USCIS
We are pleased to introduce a recurring addition to our newsletter titled “In Case You Missed It.” We will be providing a summary of recent informative and thought provoking articles and/or videos appearing in the media...more
On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued proposed regulations imposing on public reporting companies’ disclosure obligations concerning climate change impacts and GHG emissions. The proposal,...more
EV Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 3 -
How Will the Industry’s ESG Polices Impact the EV Transition?
In our last publication, the Firm’s East Asia Practice Group took a critical look at the tension between U.S. policy makers...more
Welcome to the second edition of Plugged In, where we discuss the latest in the world of electric vehicles with legal and industry insight from our lawyers. While the auto industry is undergoing a remarkable transformation,...more
GM and Microvast recently announced a collaboration to develop a new separator technology using intellectual property contributions from both companies, including a coating technology developed in GM’s Research & Development...more
SEC has been doling out investor bulletins, disclosure guidance, alerts, and staff statements relating to Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicles (SPAC) for a while now. On March 31, 2021, SEC released not one but two separate...more
Summary: On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that it has adopted amendments to the definition of accredited investor under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933 (the...more
On June 23, the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released additional disclosure guidance with respect to operations, liquidity, and capital resources disclosures in...more
On October 31, 2019, the WTO Dispute Settlement Panel ruled that certain export schemes run by India violate Articles 3.1(a) and 3.2 of the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement (SCM Agreement). ...more