The End of COVID Waivers and Exceptions: What Now?
I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Fee Waivers for Small Businesses: Who Qualifies for the Small Business User Fee Waiver for Drugs and Biologics and How to Apply
NGE On Demand: COVID-19 and IP Waiver for Patent Protection with Kevin O'Connor and Olivia Luk Bedi
Prohibitions on Use of Chinese Telecommunications Equipment and Services, Complying with the NDAA
COVID-19: Where are we now?
Compliance Perspectives: Changes to the Physician Self-Referral and Anti-Kickback Rules
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
What patients misunderstand about their right of informed consent
Bill on Bankruptcy: ResCap Report, a Bargain at $83 Million
In this issue we discuss the new Labour government’s proposals to strengthen protections for employees; an Employment Appeal Tribunal decision that affirmed that an employee’s waiver of future claims that were unknown at the...more
The UK Home Office’s Spring 2023 “Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules,” published on March 9, 2023, includes updates on salary thresholds for several immigration routes and the UK’s new Electronic Travel Authorisation...more
A recent decision reminds litigants about the dangers of referring to legal advice in witness statements. The English courts have recently taken an expansive approach in finding waivers of privilege when legal advice is...more
King & Spalding’s April Client Alert provided an overview of and practical advice related to issues that an employer should consider before conducting an internal investigation in the United Kingdom: privilege, privacy,...more
The Commercial Court has held that a bank waived privilege in all contemporaneous communications with its lawyers relating to particular transactions, as the bank had referenced and deployed certain documents containing legal...more
Background - As discussed in a previous clients and friends memorandum, on 2 April 2020, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) proposed a number of temporary measures designed to support users of certain consumer...more
The COVID-19 crisis has led to much uncertainty regarding continuing pay for employees who are unable to work from home, as well as overall job security, in the face of employers’ financial uncertainty....more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has announced that it will provide a new waiver by consent of the Continuity of Access Rules under the Depositor Protection Part of the PRA Rulebook. The DPP Rulebook sets out rules...more
On May 8, 2019, following Iran's announcement that it intends to suspend certain nuclear proliferation-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the United States issued a new Executive order...more
U.S. to Give Eight Nations Oil Waivers Under Iran Sanctions, Official Says - "The U.S. has agreed to let eight countries - including Japan, India and South Korea - keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on the...more
Offer-back clauses in leases are sometimes used to give the landlord greater control over the identity of the tenant at a property. However, the mechanism of operating an offer-back clause can be problematic as demonstrated...more