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"Closing" a transaction is one of the most important duties performed by a junior business attorney. A transaction is considered closed when all requisite documents have been negotiated, signed and delivered, any instruments or certificates...

There are many ways for a supplier to bring its products or services to market. It may sell directly through employees to the ultimate user. It may sell through commission sales agents who do not take title. It may sell to independent wholesalers or distributors...

The last several months may have seemed a bit like a reunion for veteran banking litigators, Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Dennis Klein told participants at the opening of a two-day conference on the FDIC and the New Banking Crisis held in mid-January...

Antitrust law is a specialized area of the law that focuses on the balance between consumer protection and free commerce. Antitrust and trade practice implicate the availability, variety and price of any good or service at any stage of development worldwide...

Increased international trade and the growing global economy have brought transportation law to the forefront in recent years. Transportation Law focuses on the legal issues affecting the aviation, railroad, motor carrier, and water industries. Attorneys...

The outrage over the millions in taxpayer dollars paid in bonuses to AIG employees induced a frantic search to discover ways to address this putative injustice. Leading contract law authority Dr. John Murray, Jr. examines several tenets of contract law...

John Councellor was the president and controlling stockholder of First Metals and Plastics Technologies, Inc. He loaned the company more than $200,000 and filed a financing statement with the Indiana Secretary of State's office on December 30, 2002...

Ensuring uninterrupted cashflow is a key element of securitized mortgage documentation. A SECURITIZED MORTGAGE LOAN is a commercial real estate mortgage loan that is underwritten and documented to ensure that it will be marketable to investors in the...

As a condition to getting a loan, a business is usually required to provide assets as security or collateral. The borrower signs a security agreement giving the lender the power to foreclose on the assets if the business defaults on the loan. Depending...

A lender perfects its security interest in U.S. government receivables by compliance with Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). However, in order to ensure that it receives payments directly from the applicable governmental agency on such U...

Public or government contracts law deals with the complex and specialized body of statutes and regulations that govern the acquisition of goods and services by the government. The federal government and each state government have their own rules and regulations...

SUMMARY: As the economy continues to weaken across all sectors, consignment arrangements may become more attractive to dealers. In the typical consignment, the consignor is a manufacturer of goods that wishes to sell them in the market. The consignee...

Some of the large land-title insurance companies now offer Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") insurance policies. UCC insurance provides indemnity insurance for the attachment, priority, and perfection of the lender's security interest (there...

The task of drafting and negotiating a commercial lease can be daunting to the uninitiated practitioner. The attorney must not only have a grasp of the basic real estate concepts underlying a lease agreement, but also must have a working knowledge of...

In an asset securitization or structured finance transaction, the primary structural goal is to isolate the assets or collateral which will generate the cash flow to investors. Outside credit risks or exposure should be removed to the greatest extent...