December 01, 2015

A View of Asset-Based Lending

Q&A with David W. Morse , Banking & Finance Chair at Otterbourg P.C. What led you to choose commercial finance and institutional lending as your area of practice? Serendipity is the word that comes to mind. While I knew that I preferred to do transactional work, I certainly never thought specifically about being a finance lawyer, much less a secured lending lawyer. I was fortunate that at the time I started...

December 01, 2015

Due Diligence in Life Sciences Mergers & Acquisitions

By: Reb Wheeler , Mayer Brown LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Mergers & Acquisitions > M&A by Industry > Life Sciences M&A THE LIFE SCIENCES INDUSTRY HAS BEEN AMONG THE MOST active sectors for mergers and acquisitions in recent years. There are a variety of issues that are uniquely or particularly relevant to life sciences companies and their products that will have important implications...

December 01, 2015

Drafting and Negotiating Effective Cloud Computing Agreements

By: Michael R. Overly , Foley & Lardner LLP. LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: IntellectualProperty & Technology > Software & Information Technology >Cloud Computing > Practice Notes > Drafting and Negotiating EffectiveCloud Computing Agreements by Michael R. Overly, Foley & Lardner LLP Cloud computing involves accessing a provider’s software and infrastructure remotely and often...

December 01, 2015

“Regulation A-Plus” Limited Public Offerings under Securities Act Section 3(b)(2)

By: Robert N. Rapp , Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Securities & Capital Markets > State Securities Regulations – Blue Sky Laws> Blue Sky Laws > Practice Notes > “Regulation A-Plus” Limited Public Offerings under Securities Act Section 3(b)(2) ON JUNE 19, 2015, U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) rules implementing congressionally...

December 01, 2015

FDA Releases First Two Rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act

By: Breia L. Schleuss and Rachael Dettmann Spiegel, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT (FSMA) REPRESENTS one of the most sweeping and substantial changes to U.S. food safety laws in over 70 years. After years of delays in publishing final rules, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must adhere to court-ordered deadlines to release final rules throughout 2015 and 2016. The first two of these...

November 26, 2015

Drafting Advice: Developing Social Media Policies

By: Joseph Domenick Guarino , DLA Piper LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Labor & Employment > Privacy, Technology, and Social Media > Navigating Social Media > Practice Notes > Developing Social Media Polices Social media platforms enable users to share ideas and exchange information in a highly effective manner. However, the use of social media by employees carries potential legal risks. These...

November 26, 2015

Managers, Agents & Attorneys

By: Christiane Cargill Kinney , LeClairRyan LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: California Business & Commercial > Entertainment Law > Practice Notes > Managers, Agents and Attorneys Before drafting any agreement for services to be provided to an artist by a personal manager, agent or attorney in the field of entertainment, it is important to understand the nature of these respective roles within the...

November 26, 2015

Hong Kong’s Role in China’s Financial Reform - The Era of the “New Normal”

By: John Chrisman, David Richardson and Alan Lee Corporate Deparment, Hong Kong Office of Dorsey & Whitney* SINCE ADOPTING THE OPEN DOOR POLICY SOME 35 YEARS ago, 1 Mainland China 2 has largely completed the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy, while achieving remarkable growth during the process. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the country is seeking sustainable...

November 26, 2015

Profiles of The Lexis Practice Advisor Journal™ Advisory Board Members - Linda L.Curtis & Ira Herman

Linda Curtis PARTNER, GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP LINDA CURTIS IS A PARTNER AT Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, and Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Finance practice group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, with a specific focus in recent years on acquisition financings. Linda also represents clients in debt capital markets transactions and other secured and unsecured senior...

November 26, 2015

Challenges of Taxing the Sharing Economy

By: Jessica L. Kerner IN 2007, A HOTEL ROOM SHORTAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO prompted two roommates to create a website to rent out air mattresses in their apartment. Less than eight years later, the company they founded, Airbnb, has been valued at more than $25 billion. 1 The success of Airbnb is mirrored in other “peer-to-peer” startups, such as Uber, Lyft, and HomeAway, which are capitalizing on technological...