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eBrevia's Smart Technology Mitigates the Diligence Bottleneck
Due diligence is an integral and essential part of corporate transactions, yet for lawyers and their clients, it can be a painful process. In mergers and acquisitions and other dynamic and time-sensitive transactions, due diligence often becomes a bottleneck that slows down deals, a frustration to attorneys and their clients alike.
As a corporate attorney at a mid-sized firm in New York City, diligence is a vital part of my work in mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions. Working solo or with colleagues, I typically conduct due diligence by reading through thousands of pages of a target company's dense and complex contracts, looking for problematic provisions and summarizing key concepts. Depending on client needs, the work product I often generate for each contract I review is a summary template, which essentially consists of a table in Word specifying which provisions and information I am looking for, and a corresponding summary of each of those respective provisions in the given document. Sometimes, these summary templates are passed along to a client attached to a diligence memo. Other times, they are used internally to generate the diligence memo. Clients, with their focus on costs, are always receptive to ideas we have for ways to work through the diligence process more efficiently, and as their counsel, I want to help keep costs to a minimum.
In addition, accuracy remains of paramount importance ' after all, diligence is essential to evaluating the risks and benefits of a transaction. I am eager to use time most efficiently, doing what I do best ' analyzing the results of the review in order to negotiate and execute deals on behalf of my firm's clients.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?