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Graphic Health Warnings for Alcohol

Philip Pfeffer & Ashley Pappin

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.

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LILOs and SILOs: The Final Chapter?

Philip H. Spector

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.

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Staying Afloat Through the Flood

Jonathan M. Cohen & Barry I. Buchman

This article discusses key issues that companies should consider in pursuing contingent business interruption claims arising from the Mississippi River flooding.

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Adequacy of Insurance Limits

David A. Grossberg

At 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.

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Retail Leasing in Tough Times

Lars Andersen

This article discusses opportunities that tenants should consider toward reducing fixed-rent costs, and obtaining more favorable lease terms.

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Are Lenders Becoming Less Concerned About Lender Liability?

Adam Schlagman

A 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.

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Foundations of a Successful Homebuilder Reorganization

Joel H. Levitin, Maya Peleg, Mitchell B. Arden & Michael P. Gaul

The in-depth story of a successful reorganization endeavor.

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Good News for Lenders to Leasing Companies in Canada

Amanda Plastina & and Dahlia Tessler

U.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.

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Lease Accounting Project Update

Bill Bosco

The 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.

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Aggressive Copyright Positions by Lady Gaga, Burning Man Festival

Robert W. Clarida & Robert J. Bernstein

What'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.

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