Imagine you’re a startup founder in the middle of a capital raise. Revenue is climbing. A few well-known angels are in the round, so you refresh your website to highlight your company’s momentum: “Rapid national expansion.”…
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You’re shocked when you see what appears to be your breakthrough product being sold online by an outfit you’ve never heard of. What can you do? Procopio Partners Miku Mehta, Neil Salyards and Steve Beuerle walk entrepreneurs…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
A recent courtroom loss for a social media influencer is putting a sharper edge on a risk many in the creator economy still underestimate.
Nike secured a roughly $11-million jury verdict against Nicholas Tuinenburg in March…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Business Torts, Intellectual Property
The Supreme Court’s March 25, 2026 decision in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, 607 U. S. ____ (2026), is a landmark ruling on secondary copyright liability that will affect both rights holders and internet…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
High-net-worth investors, fund managers, and entrepreneurs considering relocation to Puerto Rico now face a narrowing window to secure the most favorable tax benefits under the island’s Resident Individual Investor program…
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/ Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) has opened the online portal for the Venture Capital Company (“VCC”) Reporting Program, allowing covered venture capital firms to register and submit…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
If you sit on the board of a small cap issuer, lead a development stage company, or advise one as CFO or general counsel, warrant repricings are back on your radar for a reason. Legacy strikes set in a very different market are…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
If you’re a VC, an investor director, or a board member of a Delaware company, the control question you should be asking isn’t “Do we have the votes?” It’s “Can we execute control on Monday morning?”
Delaware control…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
Companies, trusts, family offices, private investors, developers, and real estate investment vehicles acquiring U.S. residential property without bank financing will soon face a new federal reporting requirement. Title…
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/ Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
Importers to the United States need to immediately evaluate potential refund claims now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the legal justification for tariffs implemented by the Trump Administration to be unconstitutional…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
Businesses that sell consumer products in California should be aware of upcoming changes to recycling label restrictions. Recently enacted California law requires that all products and packaging manufactured after October 4,…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Environmental Law, Consumer Protection
Public company finance used to run on a familiar cadence: pick a window, launch a process, price, settle, and get back to operating. That model assumed time was available and markets would tolerate a little friction.
Today,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now enforcing two new initiatives that, together, create a direct test of how well boards manage accountability and risk. A new executive compensation clawback rule, along…
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/ Business Organizations, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
Nasdaq has formally advanced its plan to extend U.S. equities trading to nearly 24 hours a day. On December 15, 2025, Nasdaq filed SR-NASDAQ-2025-106 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce a new “Night…
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Beginning January 1, 2026, local public agencies across California must comply with several updates to the Ralph M. Brown Act’s (“Brown Act”) open meeting and teleconferencing rules under Senate Bill (“SB”) 707 (2025). The…
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