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First Circuit Rules That Private Equity Funds Are Not Responsible For Portfolio Company Withdrawal Liability

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a long-awaited decision with significant impact for the private equity industry, in Sun Capital Partners III, LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...

Employer’s Swift Decisive Action Helps Defeat Hostile Work Environment Claim

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

On October 24, 2019, Judge Cathy Seibel of the Southern District of New York issued her ruling granting Defendants’ summary judgment motion in the matter of Lawrence v. Chemprene, Inc., et al., 18-CV-2537. While the procedural history and the conduct...

New Jersey May Not Go Down Same Road As California With Gig Worker Proposal

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

Things were starting to get dicey in the Garden State as the legislature debated a California-like proposal that would have caused serious problems for gig economy companies and other businesses utilizing contract labor. But a measure of good news...

Potential Changes to PTAB Practice on Multiple IPR Petitions

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

An important set of factors the Patent Trial and Appeal Board considers when deciding whether to institute inter partes review concerns the filing of multiple petitions challenging the same patent. Part I of this two-part series considered the PTAB's...

Health Care Law Perspectives - November 2019 • Volume I

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

CMS’ 340B Rate Cut Continues to Dampen Hospital Outpatient Expansion Efforts - Hospitals hoping to benefit from favorable 340B drug pricing when acquiring independent physician practices for conversion to hospital outpatient “provider-based”...

The Entrepreneurs Report - Q3 2019

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

Compared to the record-setting valuations and amounts raised in Q2 2019, deal sizes and valuations in Q3 2019 seem lackluster, but when considered in relation to earlier quarters, the median values show that market conditions for venture funding...

Trade & Manufacturing - News of Note - November 2019

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

WTO Rules that China Can Take Retaliatory Action Against the United States Due to U.S.’s Alleged Failure to Comply With WTO Dumping Calculation Ruling - On November 1, 2019, the WTO issued a decision authorizing China to impose retaliatory tariffs...

GDPR Guide to National Implementation: Cyprus A practical guide to national GDPR compliance requirements across the EEA

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

Q1/ Applicable legislation - (a) Have the requirements of the GDPR been addressed by introducing a new law, or by updating existing legislation? New legislation has been passed. ——— (b) Relevant legislation includes: •Law providing for the...

It’s Perfect! Or, Perfecting Security Interests in Intellectual Property

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

In our recent post, we discussed the Seven Secrets of Security Interests relevant for owners or buyers of intellectual property. But after an IP owner grants a security interest in intellectual property, how do you make it official?...

DOJ Notches Another Trial Victory — President of Transport Logistics Convicted of FCPA and Wire Fraud Charges

By EsqSocial Corporation 27/11/19

The Justice Department won another FCPA trial. After a three-week trial, Mark Lambert of Mount Airy, Maryland, was found guilty of four counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and wire...

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