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Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP has announced that Jeffrey W. Meyers has joined the firm as chair and Jon R. Mostel has joined as partner in the Energy and Project Finance Practice Group. Meyers and Mostel were most recently with Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York. Meyers' principal areas of practice include the development and financing of domestic and international energy projects, as well as the acquisition and sale of interests in energy facilities and companies. Mostel's experience encompasses representing a wide range of clients in natural gas and electricity transactional and regulatory matters, including formation, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and regulation of energy sector companies; power generation project development; project and transmission line site selection; permitting; and environmental review.
Wells Fargo & Company has named Brent Malcom as executive vice president for its Equipment Finance Division. He will be based in Minneapolis and will lead equipment finance sales, credit, and service team and activities for the bank division of the newly combined Wells Fargo Equipment Finance and the former Wachovia Equipment Finance. Malcom has been with Wells Fargo for 21 years and most recently served as senior vice president and division manager of Wells Fargo Equipment Finance.
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.
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?
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Summary Judgment Denied Defendant in Declaratory Action by Producer of To Kill a Mockingbird Broadway Play Seeking Amateur Theatrical Rights
Risks of “Baseball Arbitration” in Resolving Real Estate Disputes
“Baseball arbitration” refers to the process used in Major League Baseball in which if an eligible player's representative and the club ownership cannot reach a compensation agreement through negotiation, each party enters a final submission and during a formal hearing each side — player and management — presents its case and then the designated panel of arbitrators chooses one of the salary bids with no other result being allowed. This method has become increasingly popular even beyond the sport of baseball.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.