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On January 14, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a final rule that significantly alters the Medicare reimbursement landscape ...
On January 7, 2021 Treasury and the IRS released final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) on the “three-year carry rule” enacted ...
The SEC recently promulgated guidance urging special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) to provide increased and more robust disclosures, both at the time of ...
Forced labor compliance requirements continue to ratchet up in 2021. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom last week announced additional measures addressing forced ...
Executive Summary In recent years, the world has witnessed a number of political and economic developments that have reshaped companies’ business operations. A growing ...
There has been a dramatic increase in corporate social responsibility legislation over the last few years. As a result, U.S.-based multinationals are subject ...
Introduction On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) does not ...
As the spectre of coronavirus continues to haunt many countries around the world, data protection issues raised by the virus may not be at the ...
On November 27, 2020, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (the “NDRC”) and Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) issued The ...
In our most recent podcast on converting a mutual fund to an ETF we briefly discussed the related legal and operational challenges in the conversion ...
In 2021, asset managers who are registered or exempt from registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) as commodity ...
On December 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the annual Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (“Final Rule ...
Summary Background: in December 2020, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a proposal for the Digital Markets Act (the “DMA”) which ...
On January 1, 2021, the Senate joined the House in voting to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act ...
On December 16, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new resource extraction payment disclosure rules. The rules were adopted almost a year to the ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act (“CAA”), passed by Congress on December 21, 2020 and signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020 ...
Summary With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) issuances of emergency use authorizations for two COVID-19 vaccines recently ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and coronavirus relief bill signed into law by the President yesterday, includes sections, including ...
On December 18, 2020, just over one year after proposed regulations were released, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury ...
Overview On December 11, 2020, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (“NDAA”). The NDAA was previously passed ...
On December 21, 2020, a bipartisan, veto-proof majority in each house of Congress passed an omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2021 (the ...
On December 21, 2020, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a Final Rule that makes significant modifications to the Medicaid ...
On November 19, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) providing guidance on the ...
On December 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) issued ...
On December 21, 2020, a bipartisan agreement was reached on the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (Phase 4 Stimulus), in furtherance of the fourth phase of ...
