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A comprehensive change to German insolvency and restructuring law has become effective starting 1 January 2021. The change allows that a company's reorganization is possible without insolvency and includes the majority decision of its creditors....

A United States District Court (Eastern District Pennsylvania) (“Court”) addressed in a January 19th Memorandum and Order insurance coverage issues associated with a claim related to a heating oil tank spill. See Dorothy Biela v. Westfield Insurance Company, 2020, WL 181432.

In This Edition - Key Takeaways - Police detained more than 3,000 people in Russia’s Far East and Siberia as protesters demand the release of jailed Kremlin critic. The earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

According to recent financial data, American shoppers are on course to surpass total online spending in 2019 by early October, as a result of the explosive growth in ecommerce inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) which modifies or extends to March 14, 2021 many of the relief programs first created in March 2020 by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), including three expanded unemployment i

On Jan. 25, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm President Joe Biden’s nomination of Janet Yellen to be the 78th treasury secretary. Yellen is the first woman to hold the position and she will be responsible for overseeing U.S. economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On January 19, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a new interim final rule on loan forgiveness and loan review procedures for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), as reinitiated by the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (Economic Aid Act).

A just-published article by University of Texas Professor Jens C. Dammann takes an empirical look at public company relocation choices.  State Competition for Corporate Headquarters and Corporate Law: An Empirical Anaylsis, 80 Md. L. Rev.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133) added $900 billion in stimulus relief to the spending packages dedicated to fighting the economic woes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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