Tax relief may be coming for issuers and holders of debt instruments and parties to derivatives and other financial contracts governed by LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate). The IRS published new proposed regulations on October 9 to address tax concerns as parties have begun to modify financial instruments’ reference rates in anticipation of a
White and Williams attorneys discuss steps the commercial lending industry can take to prepare for recession.
Temple Law Alumni Patrick Hromisin discusses the record-breaking Facebook-FTC settlement and what this settlement means for other companies with data privacy concerns.
Second in a series of four primers on the key legal regimes incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers who report fraud: the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower programs.
Baker & Hostetler attorneys discuss the DOJ investigation into price-fixing in the chicken industry.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws that prohibit mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims.
A recent Philadelphia Court ruling rejected a new land valuation method used by the city to assess the property tax burden of condominium owners. In rejecting the city’s approach, the court embraced the traditional valuation process more commonly used to assess the amount of property tax condominium owners must pay.
Ballard Spahr associate, Dina Bleckman (LAW ’18), unpacks Philadelphia’s ten-year real estate tax abatement debate.
Temple Law alumna Sara Lima, along with her co-authors Joseph Carr and Michael Kenehan, explore issues of duplicate liability for companies holding unclaimed property.
Fox Rothschild partner, Nevena Simidjiyska (LAW ‘07), reports on the Dept. of Commerce addition of Chinese Tech companies to its restricted entity list for national security concerns.