Mergers & Acquisitions

One Parcel Plus One Parcel Equals a “Parcel as a Whole”: Murr v. Wisconsin’s Fluid Calculations for Regulatory Takings

Shelby D. Green

The Court’s most recent major property law case, Murr v. Wisconsin, 137 S. Ct. 1933 (2017), tackles one of the thorny, recurring issues in regulatory takings jurisprudence: what is the proper “denominator” to use in determining whether a government regulation has so greatly diminished the economic value of a parcel of land that it effects a taking? More specifically, Murr looked at what constitutes the “parcel as a whole” when a landowner holds title to two contiguous lots. Should a court assess the economic impact on the value of each lot separately or the impact on the value of the two lots together? In answering that question, the Court added another multi-factored test to the already complex web of regulatory takings law.

Real Estate

“Quasi-Easing” over the Merger Doctrine

Sidonie Becton

With the recession behind us, there is a renewal of real estate development. Developers and their counsel need to focus again on a traditional property concept: the merger doctrine.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity in M&A: A New Era

By Daniel Ilan, Emmanuel Ronco, and Jane Rosen

Changes in the cybersecurity and privacy landscape have resulted in U.S. and foreign legislative and regulatory measures and increased diligence in M&A transactions.

Ukrainian Merger Control: Notification Thresholds Increase

Ukraine is currently a few steps away from the long-awaited development in its antitrust laws, namely the upcoming adoption of amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Economic Competition.”