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Succession Planning and Transitioning Your Business Leadership to the Next Generation

Succession Planning and Transitioning Your Business Leadership to the Next Generation

Nov 5, 2019

This post was originally published by Michael Verrill at The Sharp Financial Group.

After years or even decades at the helm of a business, all business leaders must eventually pass the torch to someone else. For business leaders who are also parents, the “someone else” is very often a son or daughter. Unfortunately, despite the idealistic image many mothers and fathers have of passing their business on to a daughter or son, the reality of planning a business succession strategy is far more complicated.

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New York City Council’s Carbon Emissions Regulation Opposed by Real Estate Board

New York City Council’s Carbon Emissions Regulation Opposed by Real Estate Board

May 9, 2019

By: Kristen E. Andreoli

On April 10, 2019, the New York City Council adopted Intro No. 1253 – the largest effort in a series of bills known as the Climate Mobilization Act. Intro No. 1253 enacts new regulations to reduce the city’s current largest source of carbon emissions – the operation of buildings. (more…)

Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives: Significant Guidance from the IRS

Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives: Significant Guidance from the IRS

Nov 5, 2018

By: John Eagan

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued significant guidance regarding the implementation of the 2017 Tax Act provisions involving opportunity zones and the potential for both capital gain deferral and capital gain exclusion for investments related to these zones. Under the 2017 Tax Act, certain low-income communities can be designated as “qualified opportunity zones” and, after a nomination process, the IRS announced that more than 8,700 communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands) received the designation. (more…)

Recent Bankruptcy Court Decision Reminds Lenders That Perfection of a Security Interest May Not Be Enough to Protect Funds in a Bank Account

Recent Bankruptcy Court Decision Reminds Lenders That Perfection of a Security Interest May Not Be Enough to Protect Funds in a Bank Account

Jan 3, 2018

By: Thomas Pinney

Many secured loans, especially real estate loans with a lockbox and cash management arrangement, rely on a security interest in the borrower/debtor’s bank accounts to protect the cash generated from operations from third-party creditors. As a recent decision from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada, Charleston Associates, LLC v. RA Southwest land Company, LLC, et al, (In re Charleston Associates, LLC), Adv. Proc. No. 10-01452-MKN (Bankr. D. NV December 12, 2017) points out, simply establishing a cash management regime over the borrower’s funds may not provide a lender with protection once the funds have left the account. (more…)

Introducing Taking Care of Business

Introducing Taking Care of Business

Jul 1, 2017

“Taking Care of Business” is a new blog from White and Williams’ Corporate and Securities Group. With the help of our friends in Cyber Law and Data Protection, Tax, Real Estate and Finance, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment and Commercial Litigation, TCB will focus on emerging issues impacting the business community at every stage of the lifecycle from formation to growth and to exit. Whether it be important updates on day-to-day operational matters such as tax planning, employee benefits, commercial contracts, corporate finance, intellectual property, regulatory and data privacy and cybersecurity, or best practices and recent trends or legal developments of note applicable to transactional matters including acquisitions, strategic alliances, private equity and venture capital financings and debt financings, we’ve got you covered. And of course, we will keep you posted on any recent developments on the litigation and bankruptcy fronts too. In short, TCB will be a “one stop shop” for insights and commentary on everything relevant to owning and operating a business.

To give you a sense of the breadth of topics to be covered, today’s blog highlights five current legal issues that are on the minds of many of our clients. (more…)

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