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Sutherland Alert: FinCEN Extends FBAR Filing Deadline for Certain Officers and Employees – Does This Portend Changes?

by Carol Tello, Dwane Dupree, and Robb Chase On May 31, 2011, in FinCEN Notice 2011-1, the Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) extended the 2010 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) filing deadline from

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 2:38 PM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Sutherland Alert: Shredding Before Suing? Think Twice (Update)

by Ann Fort and Jason Chang Patent owners are now on notice: The Federal Circuit has confirmed that shredding relevant documents after identifying litigation targets can lead to spoliation sanctions, even if the destruction occurred before litigation

Published Tue, Jun 7 2011 2:25 PM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Sutherland Alert: U.S. District Court Affirms Lehman Ruling Raising Concern on Cross-Affiliate Netting

by Paul Turner and Mark Sherrill A recent opinion by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York affirms a 2010 ruling by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy court, which rendered certain netting and setoff provisions unenforceable in bankruptcy

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 4:14 PM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Sutherland Alert: FINRA’s All Public Panel Option Is Now Available in All Customer Cases

by Bryan Ward The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved a rule change that allows claimants to choose an arbitration panel made up entirely of public arbitrators. This change is applicable to all current customer cases in which FINRA has

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 3:57 PM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

New IRS Reporting Forms for ISOs and Employee Stock Purchase Plans

by Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC The IRS has just released Form 3921 to cover the reporting of incentive stock options ("ISOs") and Form 3922 to cover qualified employee stock purchase plans ("ESPPs"). ISOs are the tax favored stock options issued

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 5:02 PM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff

Sutherland Alert: CFTC Issues Two Additional Proposed Rules Under the Dodd-Frank Act at Its First Open Meeting of 2011 January 14, 2011

by Jamie Cain and Ann Battle The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued two proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) at its first open meeting of the new year on Thursday, January

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 5:02 PM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Free Download-Greenberg Traurig Alert: SEC Proposes Rule Relating to Conflict Mineral Disclosure Requirements for Product Manufacturers in Dodd-Frank Act

by Gretchen N. Miller The SEC issued a proposed rule implementing the provisions of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on December 15 , 2010. Section 1502 imposes new reporting requirements on companies that

Published Thu, Jan 20 2011 7:20 AM by GreenbergTraurig

Free Download – Properly Raising a Privilege and Describing Privileged Documents in DE

The burden of proving that the work product immunity, attorney-client privilege, business-strategies immunity, or other privilege or immunity applies to protect information from disclosure lies with the party asserting the privilege. Thus, it is incumbent

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 1:58 PM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff

Free Download: Business Strategies Immunity - White Knight in DE

Corporate takeover litigation provided the historical predicate for the business strategies immunity, also sometimes called the "white knight" privilege or business-strategies privilege. The doctrine first arose out of the efforts of target corporations

Published Tue, Jan 4 2011 4:08 PM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff

Free Download: The Business Strategies ("White Knight") Immunity in the Delaware Court of Chancery

Corporate takeover litigation provided the historical predicate for the business strategies immunity, also sometimes called the "white knight" privilege or business-strategies privilege. The doctrine first arose out of the efforts of target corporations

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 11:36 AM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff

Sutherland Alert: DOL Proposes Further Disclosures for Target Date Funds and Default Investments

On November 30, 2010, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed new regulations requiring plan fiduciaries to provide enhanced disclosures about target date funds to retirement plan participants directing their own investments. The proposal would also amplify

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 4:28 PM by W. Mark Smith & Jamey Medlin

Sutherland Alert: CFTC Issues Sixth Series of Proposed Rules Under Dodd-Frank Including Rules to Further Define Swap Entities December 2, 2010

by The Sutherland Regulatory Reform Task Force Team The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued its sixth series of proposed rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) at an open meeting held yesterday

Published Fri, Dec 3 2010 10:57 AM by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Free Download: The Attorney-Client Privilege in the Delaware Court of Chancery

Broadly speaking, the attorney-client privilege protects communications between a client and an attorney where the communications are intended to be and remain confidential. The purpose of the privilege is "to foster the confidence of the client and enable

Published Mon, Nov 29 2010 1:45 PM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff

SEC Proposes New Rules to Implement Exemptions for Advisers to Venture Capital Funds, Private Fund Advisers with Less Than $150 Million in Assets Under Management, and Foreign Private Advisers

By: John A. Brunjes , Arthur Don and Genna Garver On November 19, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposed new rules and rule amendments (the "Proposed Rules") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the "Advisers Act

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 2:38 PM by GreenbergTraurig

Antitrust - What Role For Strategic Management Expertise? A Conference in Honor Of Joseph Brodley

Panel II: Topics In Antitrust To Which Professor Brodley Contributed 90 B.U.L. Rev. 1457 (August, 2010) by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Dennis A. Yao Excerpt Introduction The purpose of antitrust law is to promote competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive

Published Tue, Nov 16 2010 7:59 AM by Corporate & Securities Law Community Staff