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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

How Your Company Can Benefit From an Asset Search

by Edward Amaral on 5/14/2013

How Your Business or Company Can Benefit From an Asset Search It has become increasingly important over the past few years for businesses and companies to collect debts that are owed to them. The economy has been in poor...more

Handler Thayer Commercial Alert - The JOBS Act: A Revolutionary Opportunity On Hold

by Christine McKillip on 4/5/2012

On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) into law. The JOBS Act encompasses several significant changes to the federal securities laws, providing a proverbial facelift...more

Corporate Law and Family Law at the Crossroads: Spouses as Shareholders in Canada 2012

by Ellyn Law LLP on 3/27/2012

Small and medium sized businesses are the engines which drive the North American economy. Increasingly, people go in to their own business. Often spouses and other family members are in business together. Because of...more

Family Office Exemption Narrowly Defined by S.E.C.

by Thomas J. Handler, J.D., P.C. on 7/15/2011

Following the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression which followed, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 democratic campaign platform called for regulation of the securities exchanges “to the full extent of federal...more

Business Owners – Is Now the Time to Sell?

by Ronald Adams on 7/1/2011

As business revenues and values have declined over the past number of years, many owners delayed the possible departure from their business through retirement or sale, either waiting for things to get better, or as result of...more

Sharing the Family Business Without Giving Up Control

by Ronald Adams on 6/2/2011

A useful strategy for protecting assets during a down economy and minimizing estate tax liability is starting a family investment company (FIC). Who can use this plan? Families who want to lessen their estate tax burden,...more

MICROENTERPRISES: Developing South Memphis, Inside Out

by Vanessa Cross on 4/30/2006

MICROENTERPRISES: Developing South Memphis, Inside Out, written by Vanessa M. Cross and submitted in partial satisfaction of the Poverty Law Seminar (Prof. Lee A. Harris, Faculty of Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the...more

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