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The first thing a start-up business owner should do is develop a strategic business plan. That plan acts as a blue. -
You are general counsel to a large healthcare products company that has agreed to acquire a medical devices company in a public merger for $25 billion in cash and stock. The business rationale for the acquisition is your company's desire to enter the market for heart rhythm devices--implanted defibrillators and pacemakers--a market segment in which the target is one of three leading producers. -
The Nova Scotia unlimited company is the only Canadian entity treated as a corporation for Canadian tax purposes but also eligible to be disregarded for tax purposes in the United States. Accordingly, any adviser to US companies with interests in Canada, or to Canadian companies with interests in the U.S., will want to consider whether (or, more often, how) his or her client can make use of a Nova Scotia unlimited company. -
No one needs me to add to the chorus that it is significantly more difficult to obtain funding for start-up companies. I fall into the camp that the late 90's was an aberration, and is unlikely to be revisited in the near future. However, this is probably a good thing. There do not appear to be many pundits at this time professing that the technology stocks were properly valued. In fact, there are many experts who claim that the technology sector specifically, and NASDAQ and the S&P are still overvalued. -
Recently, a commercial creditor attempted to rely upon dictum from a 1976 Minnesota Supreme Court decision to claim that directors should be liable to the creditor based on negligence principles for failing to detect or prevent torts committed by corporate employees. But to hold directors liable in such circumstances would dangerously expand the traditional rule that directors are not liable to third party commercial creditors in negligence for torts they did not commit. -
An "S" corporation is a special kind of entity. Unlike the "normal" corporation, income and losses pass directly -
Recent high-profile disclosures of alleged accounting irregularities have raised concerns about possible broader pa. -
Are there any prohibitions or restrictions on foreign investment in the U.S.? Can foreign investors establish who. -
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently adopted new rules and amendments to its current rules. -
The United States Supreme Court has issued a major decision addressing the circumstances in which parent companies .