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Under Siege: Trade Associations Rap White House for Recent Flood of EOs Targeting Contractors

Client Alert | 1 min read | 08.14.15

In an August 3 letter to the White House, four trade associations (the AIA, PSC, NDIA, and ITIC) requested "on behalf of the thousands of companies … that no further presidential directives primarily focused on government contractors be issued for the foreseeable future." The letter cited a dozen recent executive orders related to procurement that have resulted in a significant increase in the cost of doing business with the government, including the recent one on "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" (discussed here), and urged the Administration to address the "impacts, inefficiencies, and in many cases, unintended consequences" created by the recent deluge of EOs directed at government contractors.


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Client Alert | 10 min read | 03.16.26

Eight Takeaways After Seven Weeks of OFAC’s Six, wait Seven, New and Updated General Licenses for Venezuela

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued six new general licenses, and updated a seventh that allow for many activities related to: the export of Venezuelan oil and petrochemical products from Venezuela; the exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, and petrochemical products in Venezuela; the generation, transmission, storage, or distribution of electricity in Venezuela; the export to Venezuela of U.S.-origin diluents; negotiating for investment in the oil, gas, petrochemical, and electricity sectors in Venezuela; and the export of Venezuelan gold....