New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh | July 22, 2020
In this Corporate Governance Update, David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh examine the demand for increased diversity on boards of directors.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern | June 10, 2020
A class should not be certified unless plaintiff establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the process of distinguishing the injured claimants from the uninjured claimants will not entail highly individualized factual inquiries
By Barbara M. Goodstein | June 3, 2020
Uncertainties in regard to the treatment of series under various legal regimes have discouraged their widespread acceptance. In an effort to advance their use, the Uniform Law Commission in 2017 promulgated a model Uniform Protected Series Act for LLCs, but questions remained. More recent strides in the form of 2019 amendments to the Delaware LLC Act and the Delaware UCC and, just this past April, a draft commentary issued by the UCC Permanent Editorial Board, may finally bring some needed clarity to this area for practitioners, as Barbara M. Goodstein discusses in this edition of her Secured Transactions column.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh | May 27, 2020
In their Corporate Governance column, David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh write: For better or worse, the pandemic and future crises are likely to increase the extent to which the public perceives large corporations as entities that can and should bear a heavy burden of corporate social responsibility.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John C. Coffee Jr. | May 20, 2020
We have now been through two rounds of the PPP, and it is time for some stock-taking. How well did it work? How could it be redesigned to be more efficient or fairer—or both? John C. Coffee Jr. explores these questions in this edition of his Corporate Securities column.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Philip M. Berkowitz | May 13, 2020
Federal, state, and local regulators have sought to provide guidance to financial services employers in coping with the unique circumstances of the current coronavirus lockdown, and inevitably some of this guidance focuses on employment related issues. In his Employment Issues column, Philip M. Berkowitz discusses some of the government guidance issued so far for dealing with various concerns.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Michael J. Riela and Richard W. Trotter | April 29, 2020
Distressed businesses that take proactive steps to preserve cash, cut costs, and increase liquidity will be better positioned to endure an uncertain economic environment. Similarly, creditors that act to limit their exposure to preference litigation can decrease their risk of surrendering the payments they received.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Corinne Ball | April 22, 2020
In her Distress Mergers and Acquisitions column, Corinne Ball discusses a decision that confirms the importance of intercreditor agreements as determinative of rights as among the creditors subject to the contract. This decision gives weight to the view that the bankruptcy court is not an appropriate forum for what is strictly an intercreditor dispute.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David E. Kahen and Elliot Pisem | April 15, 2020
In their Taxation column, David E. Kahen and Elliot Pisem discuss the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, particularly focusing on the loosening of limitations on the use of net operating loss carryovers and carrybacks by corporate and non-corporate taxpayers and of "excess business losses" by non-corporate taxpayers, including shareholders in S corporations and owners of equity interests in entities treated as partnerships for tax purposes.
By Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern | April 8, 2020
In their Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern write: The first wave of circuit guidance on the procedural and substantive implications of 'Bristol-Myers' for class actions brought in federal court has unfortunately failed to mitigate uncertainty about the timing and viability of jurisdictional challenges to nonresidents' putative class claims.
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