By: Reb Wheeler , Mayer Brown LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Mergers & Acquisitions > M&A by Industry > Life Sciences M&A THE LIFE SCIENCES INDUSTRY HAS BEEN AMONG THE MOST active sectors for mergers and acquisitions in recent...
By: Robert N. Rapp , Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Securities & Capital Markets > State Securities Regulations – Blue Sky Laws> Blue Sky Laws > Practice Notes > “Regulation A-Plus” Limited...
By: Breia L. Schleuss and Rachael Dettmann Spiegel, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT (FSMA) REPRESENTS one of the most sweeping and substantial changes to U.S. food safety laws in over 70 years. After years of delays in publishing final...
By: Geoffrey H. Wold As cyber criminals become more sophisticated in their efforts to target cyber victims, organizations must also grow their capabilities to successfully combat and defeat them. The evolving nature of Internet crime presents a unique set of...
By: Ethan Horwitz , Carlton Fields. TODAY, BOTH PATENT OWNERS AND ACCUSED INFRINGERS have multiple choices of venues in which to litigate the validity of a patent. There is the historic option of a patent infringement case in the federal courts. Increasingly...
By: Pete Lareau . THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE PERSUADER REPORTING RULES under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). 1 For many years, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) had almost always maintained that an outside counsel’s creation...
By: Juan M. Arciniegas and Daniel O’Rourke , Vedder Price. Recently, there has been a movement by larger community banks and their regional counterparts (Interested Banks) to engage in derivatives markets. Historically, this is banking space almost exclusively...
By: Scott L. Semer , Torys LLP. FOR OVER 30 YEARS, NON-U.S. INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES who invest in U.S. real estate have been subject to tax both on operating income and gains realized upon exiting the investment. There have been limited exceptions, primarily...
By: Matthew Merkle , Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. ON JULY 3, 2016, THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) WILL EXTEND its new market abuse regime (MAD II) 2 to the previously unregulated Global Exchange Market of the Irish Stock Exchange (GEM) and the EuroMTF of...
By: Alexandra Margolis , Nixon Peabody LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Banking & Finance > Commitment Papers and Syndicated Lending > The Commitment Letter > Articles > Trends in Acquisition Finance Incremental loan facilities (also...
By: Keir Gumbs , Covington & Burling LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Securities & Capital Markets > Proxy Statement and Annual Meeting > Shareholder Activism > Articles > Excluding Shareholder Proposals and Seeking No-Action Letters...
By: Patrick Dolan and Ramy Ibrahim , Norton Rose Fulbright Us LLP THE AIRCRAFT LEASE SECURITIZATION MARKET IS EVOLVING as evidenced by an increase in these transactions over the last few years. Indications are that 2017 may surpass 2016 in total number of aircraft...
By: Lori Zyskowski GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP The voting recommendations of proxy advisory firms—including, most notably, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis)—continue to influence the voting outcomes...
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis. SECTION 2-207 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (UCC) was supposed to resolve these questions: (1) Is a contract formed when parties exchange forms that contain nonmatching terms and the parties don’t sign...
By: Rebecca G. DiStefano , GREENBERG TRAURIG, P.A. Overview The U.S. economy was spotlighted during an unprecedented national Presidential election in 2016 with campaign debate focused on the preservation and initiation of new jobs. This topic, of course, is...