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The Financial Banking Reform Bill: Turning Back the Clock on Private Placement Exemptions The “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” (the “Bill”) currently winding its way through Congress has been labeled by some as an attempt to address many of the weaknesses in the U.S. financial system which contributed to the recent economic downturn. […]
The Meet the Money® conference was the focus in the GlobeSt.com article, “Experts: Now Is the Time for Investment,” and Guy Maisnik was mentioned for moderating the panel “Game Changers Investment Strategies Past and Present.”
Jim Butler’s blog article "Hotel workouts, hotel bankruptcies, hotel receiverships — We wrote the book on troubled hotel assets", appeared in Hotel Online, 4Hoteliers and Hotel News Resource.
Jim Butler’s article discussing hotel management agreements was published by Hotel Management Asia.
Jim Butler’s blog article "Hotel management agreement terminations — Is there a better way?" appeared in Hotel Online, Hospitality Net and Hotel News Resource.
Jim Butler’s blog article, "Global Hospitality Advisor®: A masterstroke hospitality investment by savvy investor," was published by Hotel Online and ehotelier.com.
David Sudeck’s article "How to buy distressed notes secured by vacation ownership projects" was published by Jim Butler’s Hotel Law Blog and was picked up by Hotel Online and 4Hoteliers.
What are you going to do now? Employees in your production plant in China, aided by a couple of management-level employees in your home office in the US, may have bribed Chinese government officials, avoided paying Chinese taxes, and possibly engaged in a host of other regulatory and criminal violations of Chinese laws. This seems […]
New Cottage Industry: Boon or Bust? By Rod S. Berman Reprinted with the permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2010) Legal cottage industries built upon claims of intellectual property infringement are established and growing. For example, in the apparel field, entities purporting to own copyrighted fabric designs are employing the Copyright Act to obtain huge numbers […]
Pause Before Sending: Using Unenforceable Non-Competes can be Very Costly Had STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA) (“STAAR”) obtained sound legal advice before it sent three letters to its competitors, STAAR might have saved itself $11.4 million. In separate, two-month long jury trials, our trial team including myself, Eudeen Chang and Monica Vu of Jeffer Mangels, […]
