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Maximizing the Power of Virtual Data Rooms
A virtual data room ('VDR') is a secure Web-based version of a traditional physical data room used to facilitate document exchange and review in connection with corporate transactions. The technology emerged within the early 1990s to facilitate mergers and acquisitions and loan syndication transactions, and today supports a range of legal and financial transactions, such as IPOs and other securities transactions, real estate financings, private equity, venture capital, corporate restructuring and litigation matters.
VDRs offer legal and financial professionals an array of advantages. Overall, VDRs make it possible for lawyers and other deal advisers to focus more on the substantive work to be done and less on procedural aspects of deal management. By making the data room accessible over the Internet, VDRs help to accelerate the pace of the due diligence process. VDRs provide interested parties with convenient and instant access to deal-related documentation while reducing administrative expenses. Furthermore, VDRs provide professionals with the ability to monitor data room activity, including who accesses data room information and who views specific documents.
Professionals typically outsource VDR technology and support services to third-party VDR providers. For most firms, it would be considered cost prohibitive and logistically challenging to develop their own VDR technology platform. With a growing number of VDR providers and recent advances in technology, professionals have more options than ever when selecting a VDR solution for their transactional needs. When deciding to utilize VDR technology, professionals must understand VDR terminology, and the features and options available to better evaluate and maximize their technology investment.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.