Mar 27, 2023 Former Silicon Valley Bank Acquired by First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company in North Carolina By Michael Cohen At breakneck speed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has concluded a sale of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. (formerly...
Mar 14, 2023 EPA Proposes PFAS Drinking Water Regulation By Kyle Johnson On March 14, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) for six per-...
Mar 13, 2023 SVB Collapse – Closing Your Account By Michael Cohen Over the last several days, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, (the FDIC), has provided a lot of (sometimes conflicting)...
Mar 13, 2023 Historic Weekend Ends With Relief for SVB Depositors – Now the Work Begins! By Michael Cohen Ben Hron On Sunday evening, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) released a joint...
Mar 12, 2023 Brown Rudnick Webinar: Silicon Valley Bank Failure: What We Know Now and What to Do By Julia Bennett Thomas Phillips Michael Cohen Amanda Varella Barbara Klepper Stephen Best Stephen Palley Daniel Healy Camille Vasquez Neil Foster Tim Davison +8 more... Show less In case you missed our second webinar on the impact of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, we have shared the video here.
Mar 12, 2023 Navigating the Silicon Valley Bank Failure By Brown Rudnick As the fallout continues over the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th largest bank and one of the primary lenders for...
Mar 06, 2023 EU Signals Focus on Sanctions Enforcement By Menelaos Karampetsos Following the one-year mark of the war in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) demonstrated its intention to focus on enforcing sanctions...
Mar 03, 2023 Liquidation Preferences in Venture Capital Financing By Ben Hron The Liquidation Preference is typically the most important economic term in a financing after the valuation because it establishes the...
Mar 02, 2023 Trends in VC Terms Suggests Investors Are Not Expecting a Quick Rebound By Ben Hron Data recently released by Carta provides a bit of detail that is helpful to understanding the general trend towards more...
Feb 27, 2023 Copyright Office Rules That AI-Generated Work Is Ineligible for Copyright: Lack of Predictable Output to Prompts Precludes Authorship By Harold Laidlaw The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a decision, in a letter to counsel for artist Kristina Kashtanova, that the AI-generated images...
Feb 17, 2023 EPA to Take Aim at PFAS Regulation By Doug Cohen The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) latest regulatory agenda indicates that the agency will shortly propose to regulate Per-...
Feb 13, 2023 Jury Returns Verdict in MetaBirkin Case, Finding Infringement By Daniel Healy After roughly three days of deliberations, the jury in the Hermes International et al v. Rothschild found that the defendant had...
Feb 08, 2023 California Makes Significant Changes to the California Franchise Investment Law and Franchise Relations Act By Sam Wolf California Assembly Bill 676, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 29, 2022, makes significant changes to California franchising law. The...
Feb 07, 2023 NFTs for the Sake of Art or Profit: What Will Matter for Trademark Infringement By Daniel Healy A current case thrusting NFTs (non-fungible tokens) into the forefront of trademark law involves a defendant arguing that his right to...
Jan 30, 2023 The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: A new string to the UK’s national security bow By Menelaos Karampetsos The U.K. government has introduced, as part of the National Security Bill (the “bill”), the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme...
Jan 20, 2023 Policyholder Permitted to Keep Third-Party Indemnity Recovery and Be Made Whole, Instead of Forfeiting Coverage By Daniel Healy The recent ruling in T-Mobile USA, Inc. v. Steadfast Insurance Company signals several good indicators for policyholders. A straight-up...
Jan 19, 2023 Basics of Corporate Governance By Ben Hron Corporate governance encompasses the formal rules and procedures companies must follow in their day-to-day operations, including the...