Regulatory warning requirements for risky consumer products have typically taken the form of graphic, emotive and oversized health warnings that are designed to change the consumer's behavior through shock tactics and maximization of emotional impact.
- June 28, 2011Philip Pfeffer And Ashley Pappin
In what may be the final chapter in the years of litigation over tax-exempt entity leasing transactions, the Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Federal Claims Court's decision disallowing Wells Fargo's deductions from SILO transactions.
June 28, 2011Philip H. SpectorThis article discusses key issues that companies should consider in pursuing contingent business interruption claims arising from the Mississippi River flooding.
June 27, 2011Jonathan M. Cohen And Barry I. BuchmanAt a time when frugality is in vogue, risk managers acting for landlords and tenants need to be mindful of all elements that can affect the potential value of insurance coverage to be required pursuant to leasehold covenants.
June 27, 2011David A. GrossbergThis article discusses opportunities that tenants should consider toward reducing fixed-rent costs, and obtaining more favorable lease terms.
June 27, 2011Lars AndersenA report on the third annual Deal Makers' Summit, a private event hosted by Chicago law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC, and the boutique special situations advisory group, Fuel Break Capital Partners, Weston, CT.
June 27, 2011Adam SchlagmanThe in-depth story of a successful reorganization endeavor.
June 27, 2011Joel H. Levitin, Maya Peleg, Mitchell B. Arden And Michael P. GaulU.S. lessors doing business in Canada should be aware of recent developments in Canadian case law that establish the priorities between a lessor and a funding source in a leasing transaction.
May 27, 2011Amanda Plastina And And Dahlia TesslerThe high volume of comment letters (781) and numerous outreach meetings had common criticisms, causing the FASB/IASB Boards to re-deliberate issues in the Leases Project Exposure Draft.
May 27, 2011Bill BoscoWhat's at issue is control, obviously, and the great lengths to which some will go to maintain it, even as they benefit from the wide-open, free-flowing viral information torrent of the Internet.
May 27, 2011Robert W. Clarida And Robert J. Bernstein
