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Agency Playing Favorites Leads To Bad Faith Termination

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 10.18.05

While the government has significant discretion under the termination for convenience clause to end a contract, that discretion is not limitless. In Advanced Team Concepts, Inc. v. U.S. (Sept. 28, 2005), the Court of Federal Claims held that a termination was in bad faith and thus a breach of contract permitting lost profits when the reason for the termination was simply to shift the work to the recently departed director of the agency.

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Client Alert | 7 min read | 05.21.26

A New Playbook for M&A in the EU: The European Commission's Draft Merger Guidelines - 10 Key Changes

On 30 April 2026, the European Commission published draft merger guidelines that will replace both the 2004 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2008 Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines, consolidating them into a single analytical framework....