Artificial intelligence is having a major impact on merger and acquisitions practice. AI is being used to automate tasks, identify potential targets, evaluate targets, negotiate deals, and manage risk. This is leading to faster, more efficient, and more successful M&A transactions.

As COVID-19 has proliferated throughout the United States, the resulting health-related government actions along with the behavioral adjustments in the consumer population at large (“social distancing,” etc.) continue to have a brutally unprecedented impact on our national economy. 

There is perhaps no more consistently vexing problem for transactional attorneys on opposite sides than figuring out a fair contractual resolution for “sandbagging” issues. This makes the choice-of-law provision in transactional contracts extremely important.