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Cape Town Convention: Complex Questions and Significant Opportunities
The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (“Cape Town” or “CT”) and the related Aircraft Protocol (“Protocol”) (www.unidroit.org/english/conventions/mobile-equipment/main.htm) continue to advance slowly toward an expected effective date in 2006. When the Protocol enters into force it will affect virtually every commercial and business aviation transaction in the United States and many other nations around the world. Although Cape Town and the Protocol (collectively, the “Treaty”) promise to facilitate aircraft financing and provide new financing opportunities, the Treaty also poses numerous questions and requires new approaches to documenting and closing aviation transactions.
The complexity of the Treaty should not be understated, but neither should its potential value to aviation finance. It creates a new and simple registration system; yet its deceptive simplicity may set a trap for the unwary. To fully understand and evaluate issues presented by the Treaty, it is important to read the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol Thereto on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment, Official Commentary, Professor Sir Roy Goode CBE, QC, University of Oxford, Sept. 2002.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.
'Insurable Interest' and the Scope of First-Party Coverage
This article reviews the fundamental underpinnings of the concept of insurable interest, and certain recent cases that have grappled with the scope of insurable interest and have articulated a more meaningful application of the concept to claims under first-party property policies.