Luxembourg court decisions allow secured lenders to enforce Gecina share pledge. A controversial insolvency dispute winding its way through courts in Spain and Luxembourg may reinforce the rights of secured lenders to enforce financial collateral...
"Thinning the herd" is the process of removing from the population, by any means necessary, those who cannot or should not survive. Emblem, United Healthcare and other major health insurers, have undertaken a corporate sponsored “thinning of the...
New York just recently opened the New York Green Bank (“NY Green Bank”), the largest of its kind in the nation. The NY Green Bank is a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and will have an initial capitalization of...
New brand owners often ask how to get a trademark registration. In the United States, you must sell goods or services in interstate commerce (across state lines) containing the trademark. In much of the rest of the world, use is not required to get...
Code Section 482 requires that transactions between related companies be conducted based on “arms-length” pricing. The purpose of the section is to foreclose inappropriate pricing methods that attempt to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions or...
This is the first installment of a series that takes an inside look at the corporate tax reform proposals in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2014–15 New York Budget Bill. This proposed reform is sweeping and, if enacted, is likely to result in major changes...
In a previous post, we discussed the importance of Kwan v. The Andalex Group LLC, – F.3d – (2d Cir. 2013) as it related to the likelihood of obtaining summary judgment on Title VII retaliation claims in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
In January 2014, both the Senate and Assembly introduced bills (S354 and A101) that would require all New Jersey employers to use the federal “E-Verify” system to check the employment eligibility of each new hire, within 90 days of the date of hire....
One of your employees (we'll call her "Gina") seems depressed, so you ask her "Is everything okay?" Gina responds that she's doing fine, considering that her father has diabetes. Ready to provide compassion and support, you ask Gina about her...
One of the critical elements of NEPA is that project proponents must assess the feasibility and impacts of not only the preferred alternative, but also a range of alternatives. However, there is a tension in NEPA, because it is widely understood...
