After months of planning, negotiation and drafting, the sale and purchase of a carve-out business with operations around the world often snaps into focus with the signing of a global purchase agreement. Press releases may be issued, the parties and their myriad advisers may rest briefly and even congratulate one…

On December 10, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued its long-awaited revisions to the definition of solid waste rule (“Final DSW Rule”) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”). The Final DSW Rule scales back certain important RCRA recycling exemptions that were first promulgated as part of…