In a sweeping attempt to curb legal immigration, the Trump administration issued a proclamation on June 22, 2020, applying a ban through the end of the calendar year on four visa categories of significance to US companies: the H-1B visa
The retail landscape was in flux even before lockdown forced all ‘non-essential’ shops to close due to COVID-19. Lockdown has only increased the growth of e-commerce as we become more and more comfortable buying almost anything online rather than in-person.
The plethora of economic policy commitments to support business in the UK and the US in the face of COVID-19 can be difficult to navigate. Our lawyers recently held a webinar in conjunction with PLI to provide an overview of
The UK Government has published further guidance, late on the evening of Friday 12 June 2020, in relation to the Furlough Scheme. In light of this, we have produced an update highlighting the key and important changes that are being
Many plan administrators and participants have struggled with how to satisfy certain qualified plan spousal consent rules while social distancing guidelines have been in effect. The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided much-needed relief on that topic in Notice 2020-42
As we approach the June quarter day, it is not only landlords who will be keeping a close eye on rent collection. For lenders rent collection is also very important.
So far we have largely seen that lenders have been
The spread of COVID-19 has forced the mass closure of workspace and the implementation of work-from-home policies in the majority of industries.
As the UK contemplates easing lockdown measures, businesses are having to consider what the world of work will
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order in the next several days either eliminating, or significantly limiting, the availability of non-immigrant visas in categories of substantial importance to US companies (H-1B visas for specialty occupation workers, L visas
The US Small Business Administration (“SBA”) has now formalized certain borrower-friendly changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) provided for by the PPP Flexibility Act. A new Interim Final Rule (“IFR”) follows an informal joint press release on June
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (“Bill”) published on 20 May 2020 proposes to introduce a number of significant reforms to UK restructuring and insolvency law . The scope of the Bill is wide ranging and includes measures to protect
