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"Any Degree of Fraud" Bars Contractor Claims

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.13.14

In Laguna Constr. Co. (Oct. 7), the ASBCA denied a $2.9 million claim for unpaid invoices because two of Laguna's employees had pled guilty to accepting subcontractor kickbacks under some, but not all, of the task orders under appeal. The Board imputed the fraud to the company and, applying the doctrine of "antecedent breach," held that the contractor's material breach excused the government's subsequent failure to pay for the completed and invoiced work.


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Client Alert | 9 min read | 02.12.26

European Commission Publishes Guidelines on Foreign Subsidies Regulation: What Businesses Need to Know

On 9 January 2026, the European Commission published its Guidelines on the application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2560, also known as the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)....