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Quarterly State Compliance Review
This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect from May 1 through July 1, 2010. It also looks at recent decisions of interest from the courts of Delaware, New York and California.
Risk Retention: Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
There is significant, ongoing debate in Congress, as well as among the industry's regulators, as to the direction and scope of financial reform measures designed to address the problems that were perceived to be the cause of the current economic crisis. But the public outcry driving financial reform may unwittingly create risk retention levels in securitization transactions that will ultimately affect Main Street's credit costs, and severely limit access to credit.
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The Leasing Hotline
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Temporary Leasing and Temporary Licensing
Temporary tenants are no longer comprised solely of "mom and pop," new "start-up" businesses and similar tenants that could not afford the rents paid by "in-line" tenants, but rather may be composed of national tenants and sophisticated tenants very familiar with the leasing process.
The Pros and Cons of SNDAs
Lawyers familiar with commercial leasing and lending transactions should be well-versed in the concepts of subordination, nondisturbance, and attornment. It is advantageous for both landlords and tenants to negotiate mutually satisfactory provisions in leases that address such concepts.
In the Spotlight: Eight Ways Tenants Can Rewrite a Landlord's Security Deposit Clause
There are at least eight revisions that a tenant can make to a landlord's "standard" security deposit clause that can protect its interests as well as the landlord's.
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How the Capital Markets and Current Drop in Property Values Can Work to a Tenant's Advantage
It is definitely a tenant's market, but tenants need to be aware of the "point of no return" for the landlord. They need to be acutely aware of how their tenancy will affect the value of a property and how to properly leverage their existing or contemplated occupancy.
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BAPCPA: Another Nail in the Coffin of Retail Reorganizations
BAPCPA has had a profound effect on retail reorganizations, particularly, the restriction on bankruptcy courts' broad discretion to extend debtors' time to assume or reject leases. This shortened time period, a maximum of 210 days, has been alleged to be responsible for the death of retail reorganizations.
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Seller, Beware
Companies that continue to supply to a customer after the customer files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection should take note of a recent decision from the Eleventh Circuit that required a supplier to return the money it was paid by a Chapter 11 debtor ' for goods shipped to the debtor post-petition ' because the debtor did not have authority to make the payment in the first place.
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