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Poorly Drafted Nondisclosure Agreements Can Have Lasting, and Expensive, Results Image

Poorly Drafted Nondisclosure Agreements Can Have Lasting, and Expensive, Results

Joseph Pack & Jessey Krehl

In today's increasingly complex, competitive and litigious business environment where nondisclosure agreements have crept in scope to also be noncompete agreements or anti-poaching agreements in addition to confidentiality agreements, the need for legal professionals with generalized knowledge who have managed business enterprises on a whole has become a mainstay of the corporate world.

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Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice Part Three — Finality Image

Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice Part Three — Finality

Michael L. Cook

This installment of our appellate practice series reviews recent cases addressing the appellate jurisdiction of district courts and the courts of appeals, referred to as the "finality" doctrine.

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Bankruptcy Court Gives Pre-Petition Antitrust Claims Administrative Priority Status Image

Bankruptcy Court Gives Pre-Petition Antitrust Claims Administrative Priority Status

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

The Delaware District Bankruptcy Court ruled that claims arising from pre-petition antitrust cases filed against the debtor could constitute post-petition claims entitled to administrative priority status. The court held that the public policy that favors a "fresh start" for debtors would not preclude damages from post-petition sales of products in violation of federal antitrust laws from receiving administrative expense priority.

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Will Supreme Court Settle Sale of Tax Liens Issue? Image

Will Supreme Court Settle Sale of Tax Liens Issue?

Kenneth L. Baum

There's a split among circuit courts on whether tax foreclosure sales may be avoidable as preferential and fraudulent transfers by property owners who subsequently seek relief under the Bankruptcy Code. If the Supreme Court eventually weighs in to resolve this circuit split, property owners, municipalities, and potential bidders for tax liens across the country will receive greater clarity on this critical issue.

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Bankruptcy Practices Using Slowdown to Restructure, Sniff Out Distressed Sectors Image

Bankruptcy Practices Using Slowdown to Restructure, Sniff Out Distressed Sectors

Dan Roe

Bankruptcy practice leaders admittedly have some time on their hands, which they're using to sniff out insolvency in distressed sectors and market their services to existing and potential clients.

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Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part Two — Equitable Mootness Image

Update on Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part Two — Equitable Mootness

Michael L. Cook

This installment of our appellate practice series reviews recent cases addressing the equitable mootness doctrine. The issue ultimately often turns on whether it is practical and fair for an appellate court to review an appeal on the merits, enabling that court to avoid review altogether.

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Chapter 15 Can Impact Foreign Bankruptcy As Well As Domestic Civil Litigation Image

Chapter 15 Can Impact Foreign Bankruptcy As Well As Domestic Civil Litigation

Francis J. Lawall & Patrick M. Ryan

At first glance, Chapter 15 might appear to have the relatively minor role of staying actions against U.S. assets while the main foreign proceeding moves forward. However, as one recent case out of the Southern District of New York demonstrates, Chapter 15 carries the potential to significantly impact not only the main foreign bankruptcy, but civil litigation in the United States as well.

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Using Section 365(n) to Minimize Loss of Use of IP In Licensor Bankruptcy Image

Using Section 365(n) to Minimize Loss of Use of IP In Licensor Bankruptcy

By Richard Assmus, Matthew Wargin, Monique Mulcare & Danielle Corn

This article provides an overview of Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, a key provision within the Code that allows a debtor to assume, assume and assign, or reject certain executory contracts and unexpired leases.

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Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Settlement Vacation Could Bring More Scrutiny to Non-Debtor Releases Image

Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Settlement Vacation Could Bring More Scrutiny to Non-Debtor Releases

Avalon Zoppo

A ruling tossing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement could tee up a new issue for the U.S. Supreme Court and spur other judges to more closely scrutinize non-debtor releases, a controversial mechanism that shields third parties in Chapter 11 proceedings from liability.

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Update On Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part One — Appellate Standing Image

Update On Bankruptcy Appellate Practice: Part One — Appellate Standing

Michael L. Cook

Recent cases show that appellate courts continue to wrestle with standing, jurisdiction, mootness, excusable neglect and finality, among other things. The following overview, in a series of installments, shows what the courts have been addressing during just the past three years. This first installment will cover appellate standing.

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