This article examines the risks presented by the use of third parties when doing business internationally, with a focus on the potential for liability under the United States' Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").
Analysis of recent rulings.
This article discusses a loan document that requires execution by tenants of the subject property, the Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreement, commonly referred to as an SNDA.
This article addresses what it means for a tenant to self-insure or obtain insurance through a captive, and how a landlord and tenant can modify their lease accordingly.
Landlords and tenants that include property taxes as a variable expense for purposes of a gross-up provision should provide for a thorough and detailed accounting methodology to avoid disputes when those expenses are billed.
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
National rulings of interest.
On Sept. 30, 2010, the SEC brought an insider trading case against two railroad employees and their relatives, alleging that the defendants reaped more than $1 million in illegal gains by trading on nonpublic information about the planned takeover of the railroad company.
The Supreme Court has tried again to restrict application of the honest-services fraud statute (18 U.S.C. ' 1346), which has been zealously used by prosecutors to target a wide swath of allegedly unethical behavior by public officials and private employees alike.
The new Dodd-Frank Act not only alters the manner in which companies will handle their own compliance and disclosure obligations; it may dramatically change the way issuers conduct internal investigations.
