Skadden Arps – The past few years have brought a number of large rights offerings in bankruptcies in the energy, healthcare, and retail sectors. Between January 1, 2015, and December 1, 2017, more than $5.5 billion was raised through rights offerings or private placements in more than two dozen large bankruptcy cases. In 2017 alone, […]
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Slaughter & May – Superhuman Resources Slaughter and May and ASI Data Science, the high-growth British Technology firm, have published Superhuman Resources, a joint white paper on the responsible deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. We believe that AI could become the most transformative workplace technology of the 21st Century, with the associated need
Harris Beach PLC – With President Trump’s recent announcement of import tariffs on solar panels, the domestic solar energy industry now faces an additional challenge – how to continue to generate cost-competitive power in order to continue recent gains and achieve even greater energy market penetration. In recent years, U.S. solar developers have begun
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Ogletree Deakins – As Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree Deakins, I have seen that law firms specifically, and the legal industry, generally, face external pressures from clients, outside counsel, and diversity groups to maintain diversity initiatives. Recently, some of that pressure has been coming from sources internal to law firms—namely, their own
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Heather McCullough* What a law firm looks like today is dramatically different than what it looked like 50 years ago. Law firms benefitted from client expansion and demand for legal services, and grew exponentially. The sheer size of law firms today necessitates doing things differently than they have traditionally been done. Partners don’t work down
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Skadden Arps – Tax reform, shifting international dynamics, Trump administration goals and a potentially strong market for transactions all seem likely to impact business activity in 2018. Below are 10 areas to explore in our 10th annual Insights publication. 1. Tax Reform Takes Center Stage The most comprehensive tax reform in the United States since 1986 made
LeClair Ryan – The new year is a good time to look ahead at what trends we may expect to see in the area of estate litigation in 2018. I have 4 predictions. #1: The Volume Of Estate Litigation Will Continue To Increase We are very likely to see an increase in the volume of
Kelley Drye & Warren – Last week, eHarmony agreed to pay up to $2.2 million to resolve allegations brought by four California counties and the city of Santa Monica over the company’s billing practices. That includes a payment of $1.2 million in penalties and up to $1 million in restitution to customers whose subscriptions were
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Baker Hostetler – 2017 was a relatively quiet year for major class action news, especially in the Supreme Court, which addressed only a handful of cases that might have an impact on class actions and reached decisions only in a couple of those cases. However, there were at least enough noteworthy developments to put together
Clifford Chance – Initial coin offerings or ICOs are growing rapidly. Essentially a method of crowdfunding facilitated through blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies, ICOs are reported to have raised almost $1.3 billion globally from the start of 2017 despite being denounced by some commentators as Ponzi schemes. Companies and financial institutions are keen to explore the
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