Hunton & Williams LLP

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Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to nearly 1,000 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 18 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, the depth and breadth of our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and information management.

General Civil Practice. Litigation, Corporation and Banking, Energy and Environmental Law, Public Utilities, Antitrust, Taxation, Municipal Bond, Labor, Biotechnology, Estate Planning, Real Estate Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Asset Securitization, Bankruptcy, Construction and Procurement, Employee Benefits, Franchising, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Land Use and Zoning, Loan Workouts, Mergers and Acquisitions, Patent, Project Finance and Leveraged Leasing, Syndications and Joint Ventures, Telecommunications, Venture Capital, International Arbitration.

Potential Hidden Costs of Reorganizations: Copyright Infringement Claims
Andrew G. Geyer, James A. Harvey, Randall S. Parks, Karen M. Sanzaro, November 12, 2009
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that software licenses transferred in connection with an internal reorganization do not vest with the surviving entity, despite state law to the contrary, unless the underlying license agreement expressly permits such transfers...

Treasury Allocates $2.2 Billion in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds
Timothy L. Jacobs, Laura Ellen Jones, Mary Nash Kelly Rusher, November 12, 2009
On October 27, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the allocation of $2.2 billion in Clean Renewable Energy Bonds ("CREBs") for 805 recipients across the United States. This allocation is funded under the recent stimulus acts, the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of...

FERC Proposes to Reduce Regulatory Requirements for Small Power Production Qualifying Facilities
Laura Ellen Jones, Audrey C. Louison, Linda L. Walsh, November 5, 2009
On October 15, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued a proposed rulemaking that would all but eliminate the regulatory burden for small power production qualifying facilities ("QFs") of 1 MW or less. If approved, FERC's new regulations will, among other...

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