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September 26, 2023 Corporate Law, Legal News, Privacy Law

What’s in a Name? New York Legislature Passes LLC Transparency Act – LLCs and Their Individual Beneficial Owners Must Prepare for Disclosure (and Corporate/Tax Lawyers Prepare for More Work to Avoid It)

By Helen D. (Heidi) Reavis and Michael D. Utevsky Headline The New York Legislature passed the LLC Transparency Act (the “Act”) (S.B. S995B) in June and if Governor Kathy Hochul signs the bill into law, domestic or foreign LLCs that are operating in New York will be required to disclose their beneficial...

August 31, 2023 Corporate Law, Legal News, RPJ News & Publications

The Latest from the White House – An Executive Order in Support of Increased Domestic Production of Federally Funded Inventions

By: Nafsika Karavida On July 28, 2023, President Biden signed Executive Order “Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs,” also known as “Invent it Here, Make it Here.”[1] The main purpose of the Executive Order (“EO”) is to boost domestic manufacturing of inventions that...

August 3, 2023 Corporate Law, Legal News

The Corporate Transparency Act is Taking Effect: Part 2

by Jeffrey Blankstein On January 1, 2024 (in approximately five months), the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) [1] takes effect. In my previous article [2], I reviewed why the Act was passed, which entities were affected by the Act, who must file, who is exempt from filing, and when the filings...

August 1, 2023 Corporate Law, Legal News

The First Department of New York’s Appellate Division Applies the Internal Affairs Doctrine to a Shareholder Dispute Brought Against a German Company on Behalf of its Shareholders

By Mark H. Moore Both state and federal courts have adopted the “internal affairs doctrine” for disputes among or between a corporation and its directors, officers, and shareholders. Under this approach, courts generally apply the substantive law of the state of incorporation to such disputes, because “application of that body...

June 20, 2023 Corporate Law, Legal News

The Corporate Transparency Act is Taking Effect – Part 1

Two and half years ago, Congress passed a law that would not take effect for three years. Many people did not pay attention to this law, since it did not affect anyone at the time, even though the law would affect nearly all business entities in the country. The law...

February 7, 2022 Client News, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Legal News, RPJ News & Publications

RPJ Partner Nicole Page Quoted in Article on Ageism and Sexism in the Workplace

Yesterday, Nicole Page was quoted in an article by Deborah Copaken in her newsletter Ladyparts entitled, "Ageism Part II: Getting Fired." The essay explores the experiences of middle-aged women in corporate America facing termination as their employers seek more inexperienced employees that they can pay less, while male employees continue to...

September 22, 2021 Client News, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Legal News, RPJ News & Publications

RPJ Partner Nicole Page Quoted on SEC Investigation of “Frat Boy” Workplace Practices at Gaming Giant Activision Blizzard

Yesterday, RPJ Partner Nicole Page was quoted in Law360 in an article entitled, “A Cheat Sheet for Activision Blizzard’s Legal Woes.” Activision Blizzard, the largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe, has recently faced a slew of legal threats from the federal government concerning its workplace practices, ranging from...

July 6, 2021 Corporate Law, RPJ News & Publications

Partner Mark H. Moore Quoted by The Wall Street Journal on the Liabilities of Chief Financial Officers Amid Allen Weisselberg’s Indictment

On July 1, New York prosecutors revealed the indictment charging Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s Chief Financial Officer, with grand larceny and the Trump Organization with fraud. The indictment of Mr. Weisselberg illuminates civil and criminal liabilities to which corporate finance executives are possibly subject. According to The Wall Street...

August 28, 2020 Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Law, RPJ News & Publications

Nicole Page Discusses Apple, Inc.’s Trademark Dispute with Prepear Over Use of Pear Logo

RPJ Partner Nicole Page, a guest contributor for IPWatchdog, discusses the issue of trademark bullying in her new article, “Apple v. Prepear: Does Apple Really Need All the Fruit?,” published on August 26. Apple, Inc. recently filed an opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against the food prep...

June 5, 2020 Corporate Law, COVID-19, RPJ News & Publications

Alice Jump Discusses Retail Grower Relationships Post-COVID-19 with American Vegetable Grower Magazine

COVID-19 has introduced tensions into the contractual relationship between vegetable growers and grocery retailers. Despite being open, many grocery stores tried to limit produce stock because they didn’t have enough, or consistent, labor to unload and process. That meant growers had to discard large percentages of their harvest and incur...

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