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COVID-19 Portal Offers Multifaceted Support Tools for BusinessesMayer Brown has launched a COVID-19 web portal, blog and Global Traveler Navigator tool. Our COVID-19 Global Response Team is closely monitoring the situation worldwide and is equipped to respond rapidly to client inquiries while providing holistic and practical guidance to novel questions arising from the impact of the coronavirus.
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Asia Tax Bulletin - Summer 2020In this pandemic year, four months have passed during which most of Asia has been working from home. The focus is almost exclusively on the virus. As in the previous edition of this bulletin, this edition covers tax news about measures taken by Asian countries in relation to COVID-19.
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Electronic Discovery & Information Governance - Tip of the Month: LIBOR: A New Frontier for Digital Contract ManagementA financial services institution has a portfolio of LIBOR-referencing contracts. Some of the contracts are in hardcopy.
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August 2020Mayer Brown has been a trusted advisor to the aviation industry for over 60 years. We use our in-depth industry knowledge and our Asian platform to support airports, airlines, aircraft lessors and financial institutions across a wide range of legal disciplines throughout Asia.
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August 102020Special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) are public shell companies that use their initial public offering (“IPO”) proceeds in order to acquire private companies within a specific timeframe. Although SPACs have existed for decades, merging into a SPAC has recently become an attractive alternative for private companies in lieu of undertaking traditional IPOs. Today, SPACs have higher quality sponsors, more blue-chip investors, bulge bracket underwriters, and better sponsor-investor alignment structures than the past. In this What’s the Deal? guide, we review the basic structure of, and the securities issues that affect, SPAC IPOs, as well as the benefits of merging into a SPAC instead of a traditional IPO.
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August 082020On August 7, 2020, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the imposition of sanctions on Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and 10 other Hong Kong and Chinese government officials, including the Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force and the Director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office.