Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Labor & Employment Law

Inside M&A - Spring 2013

by Joseph S. Adams, Robert Clary II, Thomas P. Conaghan, Jeffrey Holdvogt, Joanne Ludovici, Jennifer Mikulina, Jeffrey Rothschild, Jake Townsend, Jeffrey Wagner | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/30/2013

Top Five Traps for the Unwary in Spin-Offs - A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller companies focused on a...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – December 12, 2012

by Rob Robinson on 12/12/2012

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – December 12, 2012 Highlighted in Forbes’ Law & Technology Blog as one of Eight Great Law & Technology Resources, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange Weekly...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – December 5, 2012

by Rob Robinson on 12/5/2012

Highlighted in Forbes’ Law & Technology Blog as one of Eight Great Law & Technology Resources, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange Weekly eDiscovery News Updates provide readers with a trusted compilation of key...more

BLG Monthly Update for August 2012

by Neil Guthrie on 8/9/2012

Exotic dancer slips and falls, negligent handling of human remains and the usual neat contracts cases -- all this and more in the BLG Monthly Update for August!...more

Ten Non-Compete Issues to Consider When Buying a Business

by Fisher & Phillips LLP on 7/16/2012

Every day businesses across the country merge and consolidate their operations. If your business acquires or merges with another business, consider these issues when drafting the agreements to make sure that you will get the...more

Tecnology transfer issues in Italian M&A

by Marco Franzini on 6/8/2012

What is to be known about post acquisition technology and employee transfer issues in Italian M&A...more

Inside M&A - September/October 2011

by McDermott Will & Emery on 11/1/2011

In This Issue: Selecting a Company Name: A Trademark Lawyer’s Perspective and Employee Rights When Buying Parts of an Insolvent Company in Germany Selecting a Company Name: A Trademark Lawyer’s Perspective ...more

Legal Considerations for Carve-Out Transactions

by Venable LLP on 10/31/2011

Though the business community continues to recover from the economic collapse of 2008 and the more recent international debt crisis, the M&A market has experienced steady activity and even growth in recent months. This is...more

Inside M&A - Fall 2011

by McDermott Will & Emery on 9/30/2011

In This Issue: The Top Five Environmental Traps in M&A Transactions; The Top Five Tax Traps in M&A Transactions; The Top Five Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Traps in M&A Transactions; The Top Five...more

10 Social Media Must Haves For Your Corporate Compliance And Ethics Program

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/20/2011

Companies would be legally remiss not to add a social media component to their corporate compliance and ethics program. As we have seen and reported on, agencies such as FINRA, the FTC, and the NLRB are bringing complaints...more

A Collection of Venable's Nonprofit Legal Articles and Presentations from the Second Half of 2010

by Venable LLP on 12/21/2010

As we have done earlier this year, periodically, Venable's Nonprofit Organizations Practice Group will share the best of the nonprofit legal articles and PowerPoint presentations published or delivered by our attorneys. Our...more

Intellectual Property News- Spring 2010

by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/25/2010

IN THIS ISSUE: Function Follows Form-Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants After Company Acquisition May Hinge on Structure of the Deal; Federal Circuit Holds USPTO Miscalculating Patent Term Adjustments; Big 12 Expansion (of...more

Acquiring Restaurants in Turbulent Times

by Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 3/19/2009

Investors with liquid financial resources are finding seemingly endless opportunities to acquire businesses and assets at significant discounts to prices seen in recent years. One industry of note that has more than its share...more