By: Ute Krudewagen Prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, most companies attempted to limit employees working in jurisdictions where the company did not have a corporate presence.  As part of global expansion strategies, companies would carefully plan growth jurisdictions; determine employment, tax, corporate and regulatory obligations; and strategically place employees into those jurisdictions.  Invariably, as companies grew quickly, exceptions may have been made where employees whose hire was deemed essential were engaged through…

Chief Privacy Officers still must grapple with significant uncertainties about what exactly the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA) requires.  The confusing status of the just-released, not yet reviewed final regulations; the potential impact of the California Privacy Rights Act initiative, which could significantly change the CCPA; and Congressional inability to forge consensus on a federal privacy law all mean that compliance with the CCPA is, for now, a moving target. In this uncertain, shifting…

By: Christopher M. Strongosky | Chris M. Smith | Jarrid King | Neal Kronley The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents unparalleled challenges to all aspects of the global economy. In New York’s real estate sector, commercial lenders are facing challenges as borrowers involved in initiating or completing development projects face new capital market realities and government restrictions on construction, such as Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s New York State on PAUSE order and implementing guidelines.…

The California Attorney General has posted the final proposed CCPA Regulations, which were submitted to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on June 1, 2020. The final proposed regulations are virtually unchanged from the prior version, posted on March 11. (You can review our analysis of the prior version here.) Along with the final proposed CCPA regulations, the AG also posted its Final Statement of Reasons (FSOR). The FSOR provides some…

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (the “PPA”) has published on May 25, 2020 a draft on the subject of “Privacy Protection in Entities in the Field of Transportation in the Digital Age” and the draft is open for public comments. The purpose of the PPA and the draft is to increase the privacy protection of these using various transportation means and to lead to the implementation of the principles of the privacy protection law and…

By: Racardo Caiado Lima | Ana Julia Andrade Vaz de Lima Campos Mello Advogados in Cooperation with DLA Piper At this writing, more than 2.5 million people around the world have been infected with COVID-19, and more than 172,120 people in at least 177 different countries have died.[1] The rapid transmission of COVID-19 and the possible collapse of public health systems worldwide portends a new reality: more than 3.9 billion people, half of the…

Legislative Decree No. 1511, which was recently enacted in Peru, provides for a special bankruptcy procedure called the Expedited Procedure for Bankruptcy Refinancing (“PARC” for its initials in Spanish), which is intended to help businesses affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic negotiate with their creditors and agree on an orderly restructuring of debt payments to avoid insolvency. Several aspects of PARC merit special attention, including the following: It will enter into force by June…