Equilest

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Introduction to Non-Compete Agreements In today's competitive landscape, protecting intellectual property, trade secrets, and client base is paramount for businesses. Moreover, during mergers and acquisitions, they enhance a business's value by signaling protective measures against talent poaching and intellectual property theft.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One way they are doing so is by employing, directly or indirectly, the offer or sale of non-fungible tokens or NFTs (what I describe as a type of “secure, digital assets minted, sold, and acquired on a blockchain”) to generate donations or proceeds that benefit the nonprofit. My chapter only begins to address these matters.

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The Mentor Group

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While not all of the below factors impact every IP valuation, a thorough analysis will consider all of the following: Type of IP: The type of intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, or trade secrets, plays a significant role in valuation.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JULY 5, 2022

This paramount event provides an experience unlike other appraisal conferences, offering timely content for all appraisal professionals spanning Business Valuation, Personal Property, Machinery & Equipment, Real Property, Gems & Jewelry as well as Appraisal Review & Management. and international courts.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 19, 2024

For companies that utilize GenAI in their business, counsel overseeing discovery, litigation and investigations may need to consider the new types of data input into and generated from GenAI, and how that data will be treated by courts and regulators. What Is Generative AI? Conclusion Comment 8 to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 31, 2022

This is because the default rule is that intellectual property rights, particularly rights in copyright, which are at the heart of most NFTs, remain with the owner of those rights unless they are explicitly granted, even where someone buys a physical work that embodies those rights.

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Shephard Mullin M&A

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Compliance with False Advertising Laws. By the nature of their business, virtually all lead generation targets are subject to a number of laws and regulations regarding false advertising. Compliance with Data Security Laws. Compliance with Telemarketing and SPAM Laws. Compliance with HIPAA.

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Shephard Mullin M&A

JUNE 8, 2022

Given that these businesses are charged with safeguarding their client’s precious data, however, there are unique issues in doing deals involving these types of businesses, which both potential buyers and sellers must be aware of. Appropriate Rights to IP.

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Audit Board

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The legislation targets open-source software when the same types and quantities of cyber attacks can happen just as easily with proprietary software. . Vendors may resist providing SBOMs due to: Intellectual property rights — keeping competitors from knowing what’s in their software. Meanwhile, cybercrime accelerates.

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ThomsonReuters

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The transfer pricing practice can cover not only goods and services but also intellectual property such as research, patents, and royalties. Governing bodies around the world have begun imposing significant transfer pricing documentation requirements to rein in these types of transfer pricing activities.

Technology 52

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Erik A. Lopez

AUGUST 31, 2015

That is because, as you would expect, the terms of each type of agreement are in many cases the same. SPAs don’t require these because assets and liabilities generally transfer indirectly by operation of law along with ownership of the target’s stock. However, they do differ in many material respects.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 18, 2023

We’ve also seen the early stages of multimodal AI systems, which combine multiple types of data sets: video, audio, speech, images, and text to make even more accurate determinations. When Newton pondered the laws of gravity, he thought of the micro, the apple, and the macro, the cosmos. Are individuals in control of their own data?

Technology 40

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Audit Board

APRIL 27, 2023

An internal auditor’s role usually includes reviewing processes and procedures, examining financial records, assessing compliance with applicable laws and regulations, evaluating risks and developing recommendations to improve risk management, and investigating fraud. What Types of Internal Audits Are There?

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 6, 2022

6] Similarly, J.Crew’s private equity owners transferred $250 million of intellectual property into an unrestricted subsidiary, freeing up assets that they turned around and pledged as collateral to borrow even more. [7] 14] Because of these privileges, four decades of judge-made law have laid these duties out in detail.

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Equilest

JANUARY 17, 2023

Understanding the current customer base can help you identify the types of customers that the business currently serves, their demographics, and what they are buying. Legal disputes can be costly and time-consuming to resolve, and non-compliance with laws and regulations can result in fines and penalties.

Business Valuation 40

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Erik A. Lopez

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

These are statements of past, present and sometimes future fact relating to the status, business, assets, liabilities, properties, condition, operating results, operations and prospects of the party making the statements, one or more companies under the party’s control or a group of assets and liabilities. real property.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 4, 2023

Key proposals The FTC’s proposed changes are extensive and significantly expand the types of information and documents that filing parties must provide to the antitrust agencies. merger Review Revamp Set to Delay Deals by Months , Bloomberg Law (June 27, 2023, 4:29 PM), [link]. No similar requirement exists under the current rules.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And we are seeing new national security dimensions in familiar areas of corporate crime – from FCPA violations to intellectual property theft that affects critical supply chains and involves disruptive technologies. Today, companies confront a complex geopolitical environment. Many companies are responding commendably.

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Class VI Partner

JULY 25, 2021

These materials include contracts, insurance policies, benefits plans, litigation summaries, prior acquisition documentation, intellectual property documentation, and dozens of other types of documents. Your website and owned online properties will be a factor in any buyer’s initial assessment of your business.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

1] This guidance is not promulgated through notice-and-comment rulemaking, but appears in staff statements and speeches, phone calls, some types of no-action letters, and the like. People routinely approach the staff with questions about how the law applies to their unique facts and circumstances.

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Cooley M&A

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Claims that are covered by other types of insurance are also often excluded or limited. Policies typically have a number of standard exclusions, including pension liabilities, purchase price or working capital adjustments, covenant breaches and net operating losses or other deferred tax assets.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 26, 2023

13] Third, the Commission’s expansive view of its authority is reflected in its overly narrow law enforcement exception and general refusal to take into account other cyber disclosure laws. 12] Once the SEC can peer into how all public companies handle cybersecurity, the temptation to micromanage their operations will only grow. [13]

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Valutico

MAY 6, 2024

We also consider things like how companies will work together, laws, market changes, taxes, and the type of buyer. Special considerations for valuing M&A deals include synergies, regulatory issues, economic conditions, tax implications, technology/IP valuation, financing structure, buyer type, and purchase price allocation.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

17] The SEC also issued guidance in December 2019 specifically calling on companies to assess risks related to the potential theft or compromise of their technology, data, or intellectual property (“IP”) in connection with their international operations and disclose them where material. [18] ” (go back).

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Governance and the Expertise Gap Boards can be liable to shareholders under Delaware law for a failure to adequately oversee corporate activity, including key risks. AI-related transactional expertise will be needed across various disciplines, such as regulatory, intellectual property, consumer protection, antitrust and privacy.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 6, 2024

The most frequent claims allege civil rights discrimination, breach of contract, theft of intellectual property, labor law violations, and racketeering. [1] 1] Corporate litigation varies considerably across time, industry, firm, and suit type. Less than 0.6 percent of these cases stem from securities class action claims.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 1, 2023

6] Whistleblowing Disclosures As a matter of law, NDAs cannot be used to prevent protected disclosures being made to relevant bodies by a “worker” [7] (a point also emphasised in the SRA Warning Notice discussed above). Whether there was a reasonable expectation of privacy, is a broad question which takes account of all the circumstances.

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Value Scope

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Will ESG assets be recorded on balance sheets one day soon, just as intangible assets such as goodwill and intellectual property are recorded today? Conventional” customers were the most common type of customer. What will need to be addressed by regulators that could allow this valuation impact to be reported? and globally.

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