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Stalking Horse Bidder in Section 363 Sales: Benefactor or Predator?
May 02, 2015
Outside of U.S. bankruptcy usage, and for the vast majority of its life, the term "stalking horse" has referred to an artifice for predators. In some circumstances, a stalking horse bidder in a section 363 sale can more closely resemble the term's original meaning.
Leasing Opportunities in Mexico
April 02, 2015
Mexico's equipment financing market is already well-developed by regional standards, and is the second largest in Latin America. The predominant assets financed in Mexico include motor vehicles, information technology (IT) and industrial equipment.
Structuring Your 'Event/Food Service' Occupancy Agreement to Service Mixed-use Tenants
April 02, 2015
There is an opportunity to enhance mixed-use projects by developing "event space" to accommodate these needs. Several options are available to structure an occupancy arrangement for these events. This article briefly discusses some of the options available, and items you may want to include in your transaction.
Title Insurance and Common Endorsements
April 02, 2015
This article provides a brief description of the architecture of a standard title insurance policy along with the risks that are covered and not covered.
Landlord & Tenant
April 02, 2015
Discussion and analysis of a case in which a landlord interfered with a tenant's efforts to find a substitute tenant.
What's New in the Law
April 02, 2015
A roundup of the latest litigation.
In the Marketplace
April 02, 2015
Who's doing what; who's going where.
The Times, They Are A-Changin'
April 02, 2015
As more and more commercial clients move their legal teams in-house, competition among law firms continues to grow. With the legal industry still feeling negative impacts from the financial crisis, a considerable number of law firms have been pooling expertise and gaining market share through mergers and acquisitions.
In the Spotlight: The Enforceability of No-Waiver Provisions in Commercial Leases
April 02, 2015
When faced with the argument that it has violated its lease, a commercial tenant often takes the position that the landlord, by its conduct and/or inaction, has waived the alleged breach. Anticipating such arguments, commercial landlords frequently insert "no waiver" provisions into their leases.
Subjective Intent Does Not Save $1.5B Secured Claim Against GM
April 02, 2015
Sometimes, the simplest of errors can be the most costly. Such was the case with a large syndicated secured loan made to General Motors Co. Due to a simple filing error, what the lender and borrower had always intended to be a secured loan will now be treated as a general unsecured claim.

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  • Private Equity Valuation: A Significant Decision
    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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  • Meet the Lawyer Working on Inclusion Rider Language
    At the Oscars in March, Best Actress winner Frances McDormand made “inclusion rider” go viral. But Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers &amp; Toll had already worked for months to write the language for such provisions. Kotagal was developing legal language for contract provisions that Hollywood's elite could use to require studios and other partners to employ diverse workers on set.
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