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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Timeline Set for UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Reforms

On 30 September 2024, the UK Department of Science, Innovation and Technology announced that the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (Bill) will be introduced to Parliament in 2025. The Bill was first announced in the King’s...more

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Why Construction Companies Should Engage Early in the Texas Legislative Session

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As the Texas legislative session approaches, kicking off on January 14, construction companies across the Lone Star State need to start gearing up for their advocacy efforts. Early engagement is not just beneficial—it’s...more

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Client Alert: White House Releases Report on US Cybersecurity Posture

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On May 7, 2024, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released several reports on the United States’ cybersecurity posture and strategic plan. These documents implement the 2023 National Cybersecurity...more

Dechert LLP

The Evolving Global Foreign Direct Investment and National Security Review Landscape - May 2024

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Key Takeaways - - As FDI regimes proliferate and mature around the globe, governments are taking an ever-more expansive view of the concept of “national security” to include more than military and defense interests, which...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NIST Updates AI RMF as Mandated by the White House Executive Order on AI

We have now reached the 180-day mark since the White House Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI and we are seeing a flurry of mandated actions being completed. See here for a summary of...more

White & Case LLP

UK FDI: Strategic streamlining but sectoral spread - the UK Government confirms its plans for NSIA reform

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In April 2024, the UK Government published its response to the Cabinet Office's 'call for evidence' on the National Security and Investment Act 2021. The call for evidence was an invitation to submit views on how the NSIA...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Congressional Investigations: A Review of Investigations Likely to Continue in 2024 and into the 119th Congress

This is the sixth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

President Biden’s AI EO: Key Takeaways for Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration released a far-reaching executive order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The EO issues directives related to the use...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Build More, Faster? Newsom Signs Infrastructure and Budget Legislation 

On July 10, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a package of bills intended to accelerate critical infrastructure projects across the State aimed at achieving monumental climate and clean energy goals while...more

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What’s New in Wireless - April 2023

The wireless industry has revolutionized the way we connect, from facilitating teleworking, distance learning, and telemedicine, to virtually digitizing almost all other aspects of Americans’ daily lives.  Leading...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

The Latest on Masks in Connecticut Schools: The Legislature Begins to Act

Last week, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed (as amended) House Bill 5047 (“An Act Concerning The Extension Of Certain Executive Orders And Department Of Public Health Authority”)....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Three Takeaways from “Navigating the New Antitrust Enforcers”

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Corporate acquirers accustomed to government inertia in antitrust reform are navigating a sea change in Washington, according to Craig Seebald, a Washington, D.C.-based Partner and leader in the global Antitrust Group at...more

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So Close...The Cryptocurrency Industry Shows its Strength Even While Failing to Secure an Amendment

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As the United States Senate considered H.R. 3684, the “Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation In America Act (INVEST in America Act)”, an attempt to modify legislative language concerning...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Senate Lays Groundwork for Fall Health Care Negotiations Before Recessing This Month

The Big Picture - Before leaving for its August recess, the Senate made progress on two major Biden Administration priorities by passing bipartisan infrastructure legislation and a fiscal year (FY) 2022 budget resolution....more

K2 Integrity

Potential CFIUS Implications of Proposed Strategic Competition Act of 2021

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The Strategic Competition Act of 2021, approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 21, 2021, signals continued bipartisan consensus to orient U.S. policy towards aggressive action to counter China....more

Hogan Lovells

Ramping up the drug pricing debate: Dueling bills and paying for health care infrastructure

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The U.S. House of Representatives is considering dueling proposals related to drug pricing under Medicaid and Medicare, including the Republican-led H.R. 19, the “Lower Costs, More Cures Act of 2021” and a reintroduced...more

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Strengthening the defences: the new UK national security investment screening regime

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A new National Security and Investment Bill laid before the UK Parliament this week will, on enactment, significantly affect the way investments in the UK can be reviewed by the UK Government where they raise national...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.5.2021 | Top Story: Senate Advances $1.9 Trillion White House Covid Relief Measure

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With Vice President Harris acting as the tiebreaker (and following a 15-hour amendment vote-a-rama), the Senate voted on Thursday to move forward with the White House’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief measure....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Foreign Direct Investment UK Update

Foreign investment has been ripe for legislative change in the United Kingdom. The latest development came on 11 November 2020, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the National Security and Investment Bill 2020 (the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The National Security & Investment Bill 2020: A step change in the UK's screening of foreign investment

Wednesday the UK government introduced the National Security and Investment Bill (the "Bill") to Parliament. The Bill strengthens the government’s power to scrutinise, impose conditions and block foreign investments into...more

Nossaman LLP

Is California Coming for Your Beach House?

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Yes, but the sea might beat them to it. In 2015, the California Coastal Commission adopted the Sea Level Rise Policy Guidance. This Guidance document discusses a number of potential measures for responding to sea level rise,...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Takeaways from the 2019 Solar + Storage Midwest Conference for the Ohio Solar Sector

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In November 2019, the Solar Energy Industries Alliance (SEIA) and the Smart Electric Power Association (SEPA) hosted the Solar + Storage Midwest Conference. (This conference was formerly named the “Solar Power Midwest”...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Aviation Groups Urge House and Senate Committees to Reject Drone Legislation

In a letter submitted last month to the chairmen and ranking members of the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and its aviation subcommittee, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

2019 Connecticut Environmental Legislative Update, “Beaujolais Nouveau” Edition

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Welcome to our Environmental Legislative Updates. Throughout Connecticut’s legislative session, these updates highlight developments concerning environmental law and policy. ...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

2018 lame duck summary and 2019 budget and legislative preview

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With a new year comes a new General Assembly. Bills that the 132nd General Assembly did not pass will have to be reintroduced if legislators want to pursue those issues in the 133rd General Assembly. ...more

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