By: Stephen R. Martin ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP What is a Risk Assessment? A risk assessment is a review undertaken to help an organization understand its business and manage the related strategic, operational, financial, and/or compliance...

By: Annemargaret Connolly and Thomas D. Goslin , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP UPON COMPLETION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE investigation, the buyer should have obtained a solid understanding of the environmental issues requiring attention after...

Adapted by Alyssa Heumann . THE LAWYER’S MOST IMPORTANT ROLE IN CONNECTION with the launch of a new private equity fund (PE fund) will involve the preparation and negotiation of the key documents for the offering of its interests. The sale of...

By: Avi Meyerstein and Robert Sanders , Husch Blackwell LLP, and Stacey Bowman , Ascent Classical Academies This article provides key drafting tips and best practices for employers when drafting leave and vacation sharing and donation policies. A leave...

By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue and Lannis Arbitration agreements are supposed to ensure that disputes are resolved outside of court, and that’s why it’s an irony of almost cosmic proportions that “the enforceability of arbitration...