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Commercial Real Estate FAQs for European Companies Considering a U.S. Presence

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Many European companies have established operations in the United States for the first time in recent years. Because North Carolina offers an abundance of natural benefits, including excellent infrastructure and a skilled...more

A&O Shearman

Southern District Of California Grants Motion To Dismiss Securities Claims Against Hardware Company For Lack Of Statutory Standing...

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On January 2, 2025, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted a motion to dismiss a securities action asserting claims under Sections 10(b), 20(a), and 18...more

Paul Hastings LLP

UCC Article 12: How States are Regulating Digital Asset Transactions

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It’s a new year, and state legislatures around the country are beginning new legislative sessions. We expect to see more of them enacting Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which is designed to facilitate...more

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British Virgin Islands: Special Purpose Vehicles for Luxury Assets

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For family offices, high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) considering the purchase of luxury assets (in particular yachts, artworks and aircraft) there are multiple factors to...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Staging Your Business for Sale: The Benefits of Having a “Paper Trail” in Place

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Selling a business often becomes a second full-time job. For first-time sellers, the process can be overwhelming. Often, sellers are perplexed by the volume of document requests and the endless follow up inquiries from...more

Fenwick & West LLP

California's New Digital Goods Law Targets Misleading Media Licenses

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Effective January 1, 2025, a new California consumer protection law will require sellers of digital goods to more clearly communicate whether consumers are purchasing unrestricted ownership to that digital good or merely...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Buyer Beware: The Importance of Conducting Environmental Due Diligence

In the context of commercial real estate transactions, due diligence is conducted to obtain and verify available information regarding a property’s attributes and characteristics, physical and environmental condition,...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Does a Fiduciary Have a Duty to Always Sell Real Estate to the Highest Bidder?

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A conservator is an individual who manages the finances of an incapacitated individual, and a conservator cannot sell real estate owned by the incapacitated person without prior probate court approval. MCL 700.5423(3)....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New California Law Targets Sellers of Digital Goods

Introduced in response to certain digital media sellers (e.g., game publishers) revoking consumer access to purchases with little to no recourse, AB 2426 forces sellers of “digital goods,” such as movies, apps, games, books...more

Allen Matkins

New California Law Proscribes Using "Purchase" When A "Seller" Makes An Offer To A "Purchaser"

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Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426 into law. The bill declares it unlawful for "a seller of a digital good to advertise or offer for sale a digital good to a purchaser with the terms 'buy,' 'purchase,' or any...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Reform Attempt to Soften the Written Form Requirement for Commercial Lease Agreements

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Lease agreements with a term of more than one year are currently subject to a written form requirement under the German Civil Code. For years, there have been ongoing discussions about a potential abolition of the written...more

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Prospective Purchaser Agreement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Public Notices Settlement Addressing St. Joseph, Missouri...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the August 7th Federal Register notice of a proposed Prospective Purchaser Agreement (“PPA”) with the City of St. Joseph, Missouri (“St. Jospeh”). See 89...more

Stevens & Lee

Key Considerations in Utilizing a Letter of Intent in Health Care Transactions

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A letter of intent (LOI), expression of interest (EOI) or term sheet is typically the first substantive document in the life of a transaction (noting that, oftentimes, parties will sign a nondisclosure agreement prior to...more

Cozen O'Connor

Claims Notes: June 2024

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The Florida Supreme Court ruled that PIP (Personal Injury Protection) insurers may pay 80% of a charge submitted by a provider, even when that reimbursement amount is less than the amount that would be reimbursable under the...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

The Return of Price Discrimination Enforcement: What Every Business Needs to Know

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The rumors of the death of price discrimination enforcement may have been greatly exaggerated. The Robinson-Patman Act (“RPA”) (15 U.S.C. §13), enacted in 1936, prohibits price discrimination by producers and resellers of...more

Dickinson Wright

Practice Buy-Sell Agreements: Drafters Beware

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Originally published in Healthcare Michigan, Volume 41,  No. 5 - My prior article addressed tax issues in repurchasing equity in physicians and other practice groups. This article provides information about drafting buy-sell...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Federal Appeals Court Offers Additional Clarity on Requirements Contract Laws

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We previously previewed the issues presented in Higuchi Int’l Corp. v. Autoliv ASP, Inc., an appeal with potentially far-reaching implications for suppliers, in our March 22 and May 21 blog posts. Yesterday, the U.S. Court of...more

Morgan Lewis

Corporate Transactions: Considerations for Addressing Equity Awards

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In corporate transactions of all kinds—mergers, acquisitions, and other business combinations—the purchaser company (Purchaser) must confront the question of how to treat the outstanding equity awards and the current equity...more

Clark Hill PLC

EPA Changes Requirements For Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser To Conform With Updated ASTM E1527-21 Standard

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Because the courts have interpreted the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., as a strict liability statute holding owners in the chain of title liable...more

K&L Gates LLP

Equitable Subrogation and "Controllers" for the Purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 - Can a Lawyer be a "Controller"?

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In Bolwell & Anor v NWC Finance Pty Ltd & Ors [2024] VSC 30, the Supreme Court of Victoria clarified that a lawyer will not be a "controller" of property within the meaning of section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

OSC Extends Prospectus Exemption for “Self-Certified Investors”

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The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently made OSC Rule 45-508 Extension to Ontario Instrument 45-507 Self-Certified Investor Prospectus Exemption (the “Rule”) to extend relief granted previously in respect of...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - February 2024 - Who is the Importer of Record: Security Interests and the Right to Act As IOR

Last June (2023), in response to a ruling request from Your Special Delivery Services Specialty Logistics (YSDS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued HQ H324098, clarifying what it means to be an “owner or purchaser”...more

Dickinson Wright

When Development Deals Go Wrong, Damages Come in the Form of Land Value, Not Lost Profits

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This column was originally published on RENX.ca. When a deal to buy and sell land for development goes awry, an innocent purchaser can sue for the damages suffered....more

K&L Gates LLP

Victorian Vendors to Pick Up the Land Tax Bill: Adjustments of Land Tax Banned

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It is longstanding conveyancing practice for the vendor’s land tax liability to be included in the usual settlement adjustments between a vendor and purchaser. This practice will be banned for most sales of land in Victoria...more

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One Year with the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption

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It has been one year since the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) introduced the listed issuer financing exemption (the LIFE Exemption) under Part 5A of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions, which is...more

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