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The Leasing Hotline
July 30, 2008
Highlights of the latest commercial leasing cases from around the country.
Marketplace
June 27, 2008
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
Global Warming Litigation
June 27, 2008
In-house counsel and executives within the railroad, logistics, and transportation industries need to be aware of an increasing likelihood of litigation-related to global warming. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 decision in <i>Massachusetts v. EPA</i>, suits have been filed seeking to impose liability on companies whose activities emit carbon dioxide. As additional suits arise, they will doubtless reach companies in the oil, electric power, auto, and railroad sectors. These developments raise an important question: Are companies in transportation-related fields adequately prepared for the acceleration of climate change-based tort cases that their industry will likely encounter in the near future?
What's New in the Law
June 27, 2008
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing cases.
Navigating Your Lease Through a Sea of Liens
June 27, 2008
Equipment lenders and lessors face specialized issues when the asset is a vessel. How is the lender secured in its collateral? Can a lessor be secured in a vessel titled in lessor's name? How does a lessor perfect its security interest in the vessel? Where does the lessor stand in relation to competing creditors? This article addresses these questions within the U.S. legal system and describes proposed legislation to expand opportunities for lease financing of vessels.
In the Marketplace
May 28, 2008
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
Strategic IT Decisions: The Backroom Brawl
May 28, 2008
This article discusses the business issues and challenges that are driving the need for lessors to reassess their IT strategy and approach. The focus of this discussion is on the factors management should consider as it examines the company's IT strategy for core leasing operations, <i>i.e.</i>, front-end and back-end systems.
What's New in the Law
May 28, 2008
Highlights of the latest equipment leasing cases.
What Lessors Need to Know About Antitrust : Competitors of Copier Equipment Provider Entitled to a 'Kodak Moment' in Alleging a Single Provider Relevant 'Aftermarket'
May 28, 2008
The Ninth Circuit recently examined an antitrust issue with significant relevance to the equipment leasing industry. In <i>Newcal v. IKON Office Solution</i>, competitors of a copier equipment provider, IKON Office Solution, alleged that defendant IKON used 'fraudulent practices' to secure and lengthen its customer contracts, thus reducing the ability of competing copier equipment providers to contest for 'aftermarket' business.'
Real Property Law
May 27, 2008
Analysis of recent rulings.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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