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Jenner & Block and Debevoise & Plimpton advised The Hertz Corporation on the company's spin-off of its equipment rental business to shareholders in a transaction valued at $2.5 billion.
View ArticleThe Herbalife Circus
In his Corporate Securities column, John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance, addresses questions and...
View ArticleGrappling With 'Personal Benefit' Question in Insider Trading Law
George A. Borden and John S. Williams, partners at Williams & Connolly write: On February 19, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit panel passed on an opportunity to address an issue in...
View ArticleIncreased Government Scrutiny Confronts Employers
In his Immigration Law column, Michael D. Patrick of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, discusses the new trend of government agencies conducting audits and reviews of approved applications to...
View ArticleHome Sweet Home and General Jurisdiction
In their International Litigation column, Lawrence W. Newman and David Zaslowsky of Baker & McKenzie discuss jurisdiction of foreign corporations, explaining how the Supreme Court, in 'Daimler v....
View ArticleExecutive Compensation Under Dodd-Frank: an Update
In his Executive Compensation column, Joseph E. Bachelder of McCarter & English summarizes the current status of regulation projects under Dodd-Frank Sections 951 through 957, covering executive...
View ArticleFederal Jurisdiction and the Aviation Case
In their Aviation Law column, Steven R. Pounian and Justin T. Green, partners with Kreindler & Kreindler, reviews a series of aviation cases where the issue of removal from the state court chosen...
View ArticlePaper Terrorism?Remedies for Victims of Abusive UCC Filings
Sandra Stern of Nordquist & Stern and a member of the New York delegation to the Uniform Law Commission, writes about an emerging problem for judges, public officials, lawyers representing criminal...
View ArticleFDIC Issues 'Single Point of Entry' Resolution Strategy
Derrick D. Cephas and Dimia Fogam of Weil, Gotshal & Manges discuss the FDIC's "Single Point of Entry" strategy, which addresses a still unresolved major public policy concern and related "too big...
View ArticleCongress Weighs In on Offshore Enforcement
In his Tax Litigation Issues column, Jeremy H. Temkin of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, writes: In a highly publicized report and subsequent hearings, the U.S. Senate Permanent...
View ArticleBanking in the 21st Century: Navigating Uncharted Waters
Anna T. Pinedo and Oliver I. Ireland of Morrison Foerster write: It is still unclear how the different regulatory requirements will interact to shape bank balance sheets and how they will affect access...
View ArticleThe Volcker Rule's Impact on Incentive Compensation
Bonnie J. Roe of Cohen & Gresser writes: In general, the Volcker Rule takes a principles-based approach in identifying prohibited activities. While this approach may provide needed flexibility to...
View ArticleTargeted Returns Under FINRA's Communication Rules
Lanny A. Schwartz and Hilary Sunghee Seo of Davis Polk & Wardwell focus on the use of targeted returns, which appear to be treated as performance projections in some FINRA Enforcement cases.
View ArticleFair Use Found in Distribution of Investor Conference Call Recording
In their Second Circuit Review column, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison discuss 'Swatch Group Management Services Ltd. v. Bloomberg L.P.,' in which the...
View ArticleExtended Whistleblower Protections Create More Liability for Companies
J. Gregory Lahr and Ryan C. Chapoteau, partners at Sedgwick, discuss the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court recently expanding the whistleblower anti-retaliation protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley...
View ArticleData in Justice: The Manufactories of Error
In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, writes: In an era when databases have become commonplace extensions of human...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals' Decisions in 'Auqui' on Collateral Estoppel
In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner, Gail S. Kelner and Joshua D. Kelner of Kelner & Kelner, write that a careful reading of a recent Court of Appeals decision that unanimously...
View ArticleNew York City Earned Sick Time Act Significantly Expanded
Ellen R. Storch, a partner at Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck, explains which employers and employees are covered by the expanded version of the Earned Sick Time Act signed into law last week, discusses...
View ArticleCourt Voids Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practice
In his Health Law column, Greenberg Traurig shareholder Francis J. Serbaroli writes: One of the major components of the Affordable Care Act is the concept of financially rewarding providers for...
View ArticleDefault Affidavits in Summary Nonpayment Proceedings
Sole practitioner Nicholas E. Brusco writes: It is self-evident that the summary nonpayment statute is designed for the speedy recovery of rental real property. However, any landlord-tenant...
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