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The Registration Experience: Six Easy Lessons from the Converted
If you have registered a few dozen Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars (“UFOCs”) and spent the better part of 2008 converting your current stable to the Amended Rule's disclosure format, you can probably relate to the throbbing headache we experienced during this spring's annual filing season when we registered our clients' freshly converted franchise disclosure documents (“FDDs”) with state franchise agencies. Before the annual spring filing crunch, we had found clear sailing in registering FDDs early.
As it turns out, we were not smarter earlier in the process; state examiners had not received training in the details of the Amended Rule until March, after which they turned up the heat. Part of the challenge this spring was in finding state examiners preoccupied with their own learning curve, mastering the FDDs' subtleties and devising state registration policies along the way. We would like to share the top six lessons we learned from this spring's inaugural filing season under the Amended Rule.
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?
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
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.