Jan 2, 2018 | Business Insights
Congress has passed tax reform and President Trump has signed the bill into law. Consequently, the tax code will be dramatically changed for many. Although there are many uncertainties in how the implementing regulations and rules will look, many businesses and...
Dec 21, 2017 | Business Insights
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) provides safe harbors from copyright infringement liability for certain kinds of online service providers — for example, websites that allow users to post or store material on their systems. If a provider is in compliance...
Aug 27, 2017 | Business Insights
A Limited Liability Company (LLC) and a Subchapter S Corporation share a number of characteristics. Chief among them is that each provides participants – shareholders in a corporation, members in an LLC – with insulation from personal liability while avoiding the...
Jul 4, 2017 | Business Insights
Purchase price allocation and timing of payments are two of the issues to consider when structuring an asset sale or purchase of a business. The tax consequences can be enormous if company assets aren’t allocated strategically. Consider this scenario based on an...
Jun 26, 2017 | Business Insights
Judge Liam O’Grady of the U.S. District Court, sitting in Alexandria, has found a non-competition agreement overbroad and unenforceable because its geographical component was defined by an irrelevant factor that resulted in a zone of prohibited competition that was...
