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New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Corinne Ball | April 24, 2024
In March, the Seventh Circuit held that the same safe harbor provisions in the Bankruptcy Code may also extend to leveraged acquisitions structured as a purchase of privately held stock.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David E. Kahen and Elliot Pisem | April 17, 2024
'Acqis Technology v. Commissioner' confirms the continued vitality of the doctrine in the context of an apparent scheme to evade tax with respect to proceeds attributable to the settlement of patent infringement claims.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Lara Flath, Jacob Fargo and Gaby Colvin | April 10, 2024
This article explores so-called "scrivener's errors"—a mistake that occurs when parties have reached a mutual oral agreement but the signed writing does not express that agreement and one of the parties seeks to reform the contract.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Barbara M. Goodstein and Adam C. Wolk | April 3, 2024
'North Star' underscores the important distinction between nonexclusive and exclusive license agreements when foreclosing on a licensed asset. A licensee seeking to acquire use rights in trademarks encumbered by a perfected security interest should weigh the benefits under Section 9-321 of a nonexclusive license against possible commercial advantages of an exclusive license.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Derek Dragotta | March 27, 2024
Data breaches are on the rise, as are the costs associated with them. AI is allowing bad actors to quickly shift tactics and generate more believable scams. There is a significant uptick in attempted fraudulent filings. This article presents various ways in which you can protect your organization, as well as your class, from these threats.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By John Coffee | March 20, 2024
Few principles of law are as universally respected by U.S. courts as the "internal affairs rule." All state jurisdictions at least formally subscribe to this rule, and the Supreme Court has hinted it may be constitutionally required. Nonetheless, the New York Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a case asking the court to replace the traditional rule with an "interest-balancing" test.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Philip M. Berkowitz | March 13, 2024
The New York Department of Financial Services imposed a $30 million penalty on the New York branch of a foreign bank. The fine had nothing to do with employment discrimination or wage-and-hour issues—but it was the outcome of an internal transfer of a single New York-based employee to an overseas affiliate, and is a lesson in how financial services clients are at risk of penalties going far beyond those that are normally imposed by employment law regulators.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By William F. Johnson | March 6, 2024
This article examines the SEC's no-admit/no-deny rule through the lens of the SEC's recent denial of a request to modify the rule filed by an external advocacy organization and concludes that the SEC should have given more consideration to amending the rule.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Corinne Ball | February 21, 2024
This article addresses how a Creditor's Committee may sue members of an LLC, despite Delaware law limitations, and how prebankruptcy exercise of proxy rights in reliance on Delaware law are upheld in a subsequent bankruptcy case.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David E. Kahen and Elliot Pisem | February 14, 2024
In 'Estate of Fry v. Commissioner', payments by one S corporation to another under identical ownership were recorded as intercompany loans. Following issuance of a notice of deficiency premised on the shareholder's stock basis in the debtor corporation being insufficient to support the losses claimed by him, the petitioners were ultimately successful in persuading the Tax Court that the transfers should be recharacterized as distributions by one corporation to its shareholder, coupled with contributions by that shareholder to the other corporation.
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