Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%
Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.
In the Marketplace
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.
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.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
CLE Shouldn't Be the Only Mandatory Training for Attorneys
Each stage of an attorney's career offers opportunities for a curriculum that addresses both the individual's and the firm's need to drive success.
Discovery of Claim Construction and Infringement Analysis May be Compelled Prior to a Markman Hearing
A defendant in a patent infringement suit may, during discovery and prior to a <i>Markman</i> hearing, compel the plaintiff to produce claim charts, claim constructions, and element-by-element infringement analyses.