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Practical Tips for Managing Environmental Issues During the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Pillsbury’s Construction & Real Estate Law Team
Due diligence and compliance challenges require flexible approaches and creative solutions. In “Practical Tips for Managing Environmental Issues During the Coronavirus Pandemic,” colleagues Sheila McCafferty Harvey and Reza Zarghamee discuss how proactive and creative compliance strategies, and effective strategies to document parties’ efforts to comply with existing obligations, can help hedge against transactional and compliance risks.…
Pillsbury’s Industry Insights: Restaurant, Food & Beverage Webinar
By Pillsbury’s Construction & Real Estate Law Team
Please join us April 8, 2020, for an Industry Insights webinar series designed to help clients spot issues, mitigate risk and navigate challenges specific to their industry.
During this webinar Anna Graves, Carrie Bonnington and Paula Weber will discuss the restaurant, food & beverage industry with a focus on helping restaurant owners, operators and investors, as well as vendors and suppliers, address business issues relating to…
Innovating Your Thinking About Patents
COVID-19, COPPA and the CCPA: Educators Face Privacy Questions as Students Move to Remote Learning
COVID-19 Impacts on REITs and Mitigation Strategies
By Pillsbury’s Construction & Real Estate Law Team
REITs have several options to defer required dividend distributions through the current year and even significantly into next year (although at a potential cost), and the use of combined cash and stock distributions may greatly reduce a REIT’s cash outlay for dividend distributions. In “COVID-19 Impacts on REITs and Mitigation Strategies,” colleagues Robert S. Logan, Brian M. Blum and Peter J. Elias address how…
So the Government Shut Down Your Construction Project—What Next?
By Matthew D. Stockwell and Laura Bourgeois LoBue
The impact of COVID-19 on construction projects continues to evolve as an increasing number of are issuing orders suspending construction. While complying with obligations in the face of a project being shut down, parties should not lose sight of actions that will best position them when construction resumes. In “So the Government Shut Down Your Construction Project—What Next? colleagues Matthew Stockwell and Laura Bourgeois LoBue discuss the…
FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ March 2020
By Scott R. Flick, Warren Kessler and Simone A. Wood
Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes:
Rebroadcast Changes Lead to FM Translator Station Fine
Delinquent Regulatory Fees Threaten AM Station License
Procedural Missteps Lead to Dismissal of Stations’ Applications in Administrative Proceeding
North Carolina FM Translator’s Primary Station Change Leads…
Government Contractors Impacted by COVID-19 Orders
By Pillsbury’s Construction & Real Estate Law Team
An increasing number of States—now numbering 23, as well as the District of Columbia and many counties and cities, are now subject to Executive Orders restricting activity of non-essential businesses. In “Numerous Jurisdictions Have Now Issued COVID-19 Orders Impacting Government Contractors,” colleagues John E. Jensen, Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Marques O. Peterson and Robert Starling discuss how the Varied Executive Orders, in increasing numbers, have…
CARE Act Tax Deferrals and Refund Provisions
By Pillsbury’s Construction & Real Estate Law Team
The Act represents the third legislative attempt to address the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In “CARES Act Provides Tax Deferral and Refund Opportunities,” colleagues Brian M. Blum and Harsha Reddy address that many of these provisions provide taxpayers with liquidity benefits by providing cash payments, pushing back tax payment dates and reducing current and prior year tax liabilities.…