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CapitalSource of Chevy Chase, MD, has named Laird Boulden as president of its newly formed Corporate Finance Group. The new group combines business units from Corporate Asset Finance and Leveraged Finance and focuses on software, technology and health care. The company has also promoted Ryan Golding to managing director of the Leveraged Finance Group, and he will report to Boulden. The Corporate Asset Finance group was built by Boulden and his team when he joined CapitalSource as the group's president in early 2010. In that time, the group has secured approvals for more than $550 million in loans/leases. As president of Corporate Finance, Boulden manages all aspects of the business, including strategic direction, business development and daily operations. Prior to joining CapitalSource, he was co-founder of Tygris Commercial Finance and president of Tygris Asset Finance. Golding joined CapitalSource in 2002 as an investment officer responsible for helping develop its presence within the cash flow leveraged finance market.
The Alta Group has launched an interactive website designed to stimulate discussion among professionals in the asset finance industry, as well as executives responsible for equipment acquisition and marketers who offer sales-aid finance to customers. The website features several posts contributed by various Alta Group consultants on trends and current topics in an industry that is undergoing a historic transformation shaped by new regulatory pressures, the recession, more sophisticated customers and changing asset markets, especially information technology. The content relates to the consulting firm's five distinct practice areas aligned with the business growth needs of Alta's clients: management consulting, mergers and acquisitions, professional development, vendor and captive lease programs, and legal support services. The site can be found at www.thealta group.com/blog.
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.
Law Firms are Reducing Redundant Real Estate by Bringing Support Services Back to the Office
A trend analysis of the benefits and challenges of bringing back administrative, word processing and billing services to law offices.
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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.
Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel
'Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel is a continuation of the discussion of client expectations and the disconnect that often occurs. And although the outside attorneys should be pursuing how inside-counsel actually think, inside counsel should make an effort to impart this information without waiting to be asked.