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.

Banking, Corporate, Environmental, International, Labor, Litigation, Public Finance, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, ERISA and Technology.

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...

Congress Extends and Expands the Mental Health Parity Rules for Group Health Plans
L. Scott Austin, David Mustone, Christina M. Crockett, August 4, 2009
In October of 2008, Congress amended the Mental Health Parity Act of 1997 ("MHPA") to make the law permanent. It also significantly expanded the law to: apply to substance abuse benefits, add additional parity requirements for group health plans, require disclosure of a plan¿s ¿medical...

India's New Information Technology Law Impacts Outsourcing Transactions
James A. Harvey, Karen M. Sanzaro, June 17, 2009
On February 5, 2009, the President of India signed into law the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 (the "ITAA"), a robust amendment to the country's Information Technology Act, 2000 (the "IT Act").

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