Business Law and Corporate Law

In this episode of The Upper Brand, hosts Rich Assmus and Kristine Young are joined by James Ferguson and Ana Leticia Allevato to discuss how IP licenses, distribution deals, and collaboration agreements can be recharacterized as franchise relationships under U.S. and Brazilian law.

Buying a franchise can be one of the smartest paths to business ownership. You get a proven business model, an established brand, and operational support from day one.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) have jointly introduced the Home Team Act, a proposed bill that would essentially federalize Ohio’s Art Modell Law and impose a series of conditions...

Q1 2026 broke every VC record. Crunchbase reports $300 billion deployed globally, a 150% jump year-over-year, nearly 70% of all VC deployed in all of 2025.

For decades, the space industry has been financed like venture capital: large equity rounds, centralized balance sheets, and long timelines to liquidity.

For Outlander VC, people are the most critical factor in a startup's success. That founder-first philosophy shapes every investment decision the company makes.

First Tuesday Update is our monthly take on current issues in commercial disputes, international arbitration, and judgment enforcement.

Levin Global (sometimes referred to as the “Fund”), is a Chilean entity created in 2011 to serve as a holding company for a group of 15 operating companies that provide consulting...

Geopolitics are impacting supply chains at an incredible speed and magnitude right now. It is no wonder that geopolitics and supply chain risk have become top concerns...

On March 23, 2026, the FDIC officially rescinded financial crisis-era guidance that had, for nearly two decades, discouraged private equity investors from participating in the resolution of failed banks.

Pryor Cashman announced today that Olga Beloded has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in the Tax Group. Olga joins from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, where she was a partner.

The traditional distinction between "national" and "regional" law firms is becoming less predictive of where high-end legal work and the lawyers who drive it actually reside.