In a highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court has rejected the Federal Circuit’s standard for indefiniteness – that a claim is indefinite only when it is not amenable to a construction or “insolubly ambiguous” – and replaced it with a new...
Two years ago, I wrote about La. Mun. Police Emples. Ret. Sys. v. Pyott, 46 A.3d 313 (Del. Ch. 2012) in which Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster refused to give preclusive effect to federal district court’s dismissal of a derivative action. See...
The definition of money purchase benefits is changing, and with it the rules on how schemes are required to deal with any benefit which becomes classified as ‘non-money purchase’. More information about these affected benefits can be found on page 3....
In This Issue: - WHAT DOES THE DELAWARE CHANCERY COURT’S RURAL/METRO RULING MEAN FOR ADVISORS TO DISTRESSED COMPANIES? - US: OUTLOOK FOR CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING - RABOBANK DECISION — SPECIAL DUTY OF CARE - WHY GLOBAL INVESTORS PREFER...
In data 24 giugno 2014, è stato pubblicato in G.U. n. 144 il decreto legge n. 91 (c.d. “Decreto Crescita”), in vigore dal 25 giugno 2014, recante inter alia disposizioni urgenti per le imprese. Gli articoli 21 e 22 del Decreto 91 contengono in...
More than 40 years after releasing what many music aficionados consider to be the greatest classic rock song ever written, Led Zeppelin faces a lawsuit alleging that it was written (in part) by someone else. At issue is the chord progression...
Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) are a type of Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) created by pooling large commercial loans and debt instruments. This pool is divided into various tranches with different risk–return characteristics and...
As education and employment lawyers, we experience schools’ collective challenges at a far greater rate than any individual institution. This year, the issue that schools have struggled with most is the failure to document employee-performance...
