Lease syndications have enjoyed a significant rise in popularity in recent years. This rise in popularity has brought about an evolution in the commonly used structures, leading to additional complexity and confusion in practice. In this article, we provide a framework for analyzing syndications and addressing the practical needs of originators and funders.
In a long-awaited opinion, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that trigger ads.
The Supreme Court's growing embrace of the virtues of arbitration continued on April 1 with a 5-4 ruling endorsing labor contracts that send age discrimination claims to arbitration rather than to federal courts.
In order to better understand the required level of care that must be taken before issuing notice letters to potential patent infringers, and the legal standard under which that care may be later judged in court, we address two recent Federal Circuit cases on this topic.
Although the open-source movement has been active for more than a decade, it is only in recent months that such a copyright license actually has received the imprimatur of enforceability ' from an unlikely court (the Federal Circuit) construing a perhaps unlikely license (the Java Model Railroad Interface for model train software).
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
In the opinion of four out of five middle-market executives, the financial crisis will bottom out in 2009. This is according to a research report, "U.S. Middle Market Outlook 2009: Navigating the Credit Crunch," the first in a series of four in-depth studies on the middle market sponsored by CIT Group and produced by Forbes Insights, the research practice of Forbes Media.
Part One of this article addressed items on the Article 9 Joint Review Committee's agenda, including naming issues and transmitting utilities. This second installment discusses forms of initial financing statements and amendments, correction statements, control of deposit accounts, intangibles, and the Commercial Money Center and Highland Capital cases.
This article provides a very condensed version of both the current financial global crisis and the problems that exist in the LILO/SILO transactions and then draws some unseen parallels shared by each of them. In addition, some conclusions are drawn as to what may be learned from these events.
On Jan. 1, 2010, the long-awaited Ontario Motor Vehicle Dealers Act, 2002 and its two Regulations will come into force. The impact of this legislation is far-reaching to any person who sells, leases, or finances motor vehicles (consumer or commercial) in the Province of Ontario.
