LJN Newsletters

  • Commercial Lease Diligence

    This article reviews the recommended due diligence efforts of the purchaser's counsel with respect to leased commercial property, and elaborates on the pre- and post-closing rationales for completing such diligence review. The main focus of this article is the due diligence activities and rationale of counsel to a potential purchaser of all of the stock of a selling entity. Where relevant, it incorporates the alternate considerations that might arise in the context of an asset purchase or merger structure.

    February 28, 2015Jackie M. Burkhardt

  • Time to Define InsiderTrading

    The average person probably believes it is illegal for a corporate insider to purchase or sell stock based on confidential information or provide the information to an outside trader. However, a bombshell ruling by an influential federal appeals court could make such conduct perfectly legal.

    February 28, 2015Jared Kopel

  • Will That Restriction Hold Up?

    Given their critical nature to both parties, use clauses, exclusives and prohibited uses are among the most heavily negotiated provisions of any retail lease. As a result, the final draft may contain a number of compromises and vagaries that are understood only by the original parties involved.

    February 28, 2015Peter J. Marino, Scott A. Miskimon and Lauren H. Bradley

  • Cramdown Interest Rates in Chapter 11

    Recently, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York held, among other things, that debtors could cram down their plan of reorganization on their secured lenders under section 1129(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bankruptcy Code by providing them with replacement notes paying a below-market interest rate using a formula approach to calculate the applicable interest rate. This article analysis this decision.

    February 28, 2015Robert W. Dremluk

  • Trends in Enterprise Legal Management

    In this roundtable conversation, Marcus Hartmann , General Counsel, RB (formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser) and Jason Parkman, CEO, Mitratech, discuss trends in enterprise legal management, the tools it provides users, and the increased controls brought to legal departments using this technology.

    February 28, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Landlord & Tenant

    Several key rulings are discussed.

    February 28, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

  • Obama Calls for Industry's Cooperation On Cybersecurity

    President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Feb. 13 promoting information-sharing between the private sector and the government in an effort to combat the rising number of security hacks and data breaches.

    February 28, 2015David Ruiz

  • In the Spotlight: Credit Tenant Lease Financing

    While credit tenant loans represent a relatively small scope of overall financing transactions, they are a noteworthy addition to the finance realm due to their creative structures and strong performance. As various financial sources predict that the commercial real estate finance sector is expected to continue on its upward swing, there is a sense that a wider breath of financing structures will be attractive to lenders.

    February 28, 2015R. Robinson Plowden and Virginia Worthy

  • Castle Defense

    The battle over expert testimony on patent damages harkens back to the middle ages when would-be attackers developed new strategies for laying siege to a castle, defensive counter-measures were developed to thwart those siege tactics. As plaintiffs have introduced expert testimony based on novel patent damages theories, defendants have asked courts to fulfill their gatekeeping role by preventing certain types of expert testimony from reaching the jury.

    February 28, 2015Rudy Kim and Michelle Yang