Commercial Law & Contracts Updates – May 21, 2012

by Thomas Fox on 5/21/2012

This drove home to me that what a company really needs to accomplish regarding compliance is to do the day-to-day work in its company to help create and foster a culture of compliance. Recently May 7-11 was designated as...more

by McAfee & Taft on 5/18/2012

Originally published in The Journal Record - May 17, 2012. At first glance, email marketing campaigns may appear to be an ideal way to market your business: A business that engages in an email marketing campaign can...more

by Dechert LLP on 5/18/2012

The European Council on the 14 May adopted Regulation (EU) No 409/2012 that will give full legal effect to the suspension of EU sanctions against Burma/Myanmar. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy...more

by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 5/18/2012

Charles Schwab & Co. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., No. C-12-518 EDL (N.D. Cal. 2012), provides a new analysis in the growing body of law addressing the circumstances under which waivers of class action in...more

by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 5/18/2012

On May 15, 2012, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, which required certain lenders to return $403 million in prepetition payments they had...more

by White & Case LLP on 5/18/2012

A recent decision of the Delaware Chancery Court shines a spotlight on the terms of confidentiality agreements and the critical importance of explicit drafting to avoid unintended consequences. Ambiguous terms in a...more

by Ballard Spahr LLP on 5/18/2012

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary decision to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules in a percentage ranging from 31.14 percent to...more

by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 5/18/2012

In our March 2012 Franchise Review we completed the first part of our two-part commentary on important developments we have seen in franchise agreement and franchise disclosure document preparation in the past few years. We...more