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King & Spalding

Renewed Interest in Synthetic Leases - A Refresher and Changes Under the New (ASC 842) Lease Accounting Standard

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A synthetic lease is a financing technique structured to be an operating lease for the lessee’s financial accounting purposes and a financing for U.S. federal tax purposes. Synthetic leases are most often used in acquisition...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Ten Key Issues in Addressed Lease Agreements for Companies

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Equipment leasing presents a company with an opportunity to acquire the use of equipment without using its own cash or its bank line of credit. An understanding of the unique features of equipment lease contracts should help...more

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Aircraft Less Lesson Learned: Is Your Aircraft Properly Insured?

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Commercial transactions, particularly those involving aircraft lease agreements and insurance coverage, often involve numerous parties and complex relationships between them. The Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Aviation One of...more

Blank Rome LLP

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CASE LAW DEVELOPMENTS - This survey covers a number of cases decided in 2016 involving disputes between parties to equipment financing transactions or with third parties regarding the transactions or the related equipment....more

Roetzel & Andress

2017 Physician Fee Schedule Includes Clarification of Space and Equipment Rental Exception Under Stark Law

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The Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently finalized the Calendar Year 2017 Physician Fee Schedule (“2017 Fee Schedule”), which includes a restatement of a provision...more

Bennett Jones LLP

The Lease of Your Worries: Preserving the Priority of a Lessor’s Interest in an Asset

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Unless a long-term lease of an asset is registered in the Personal Property Registry (PPR), the leasing arrangement may fail to protect the priority of the lessor’s ownership interest. The Alberta Court of Appeal in Fast...more

Baker Donelson

CMS Re-proposes Ban on Per-Click Fees for Space and Equipment Leases under Stark

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In the CY 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (CY 2017 MPFS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued proposed updates to the physician self-referral law (Stark law). The primary Stark law update focused on...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

How to Prevent a Tenant from Removing Valuable Equipment Before They Flee

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A landlord may prevent a tenant from taking equipment from the premises by filing a distress writ. Before a landlord files suit for eviction, it should first consider whether there is any equipment on the premises that...more

Dickinson Wright

Analysis of New Timeshare Arrangement Exception to the Stark Law – Part 2

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In a previous post, we analyzed the new Timeshare Arrangement exception to the Stark law that CMS proposed and went into effect on January 1, 2016. Here we give an example of how the new timeshare arrangement exception works...more

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Equipment Finance Industry Dodges a Bullet in Important Legal Ruling

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This summer, the equipment finance industry dodged a bullet in an important Minnesota Supreme Court ruling. The Court ruled that a financier of a lease could bring a breach of contract action against an equipment vendor and...more

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