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| Business Leaders Must Know Where to Seek Advice |
Topic: Leadership Lessons |
| Executives are often criticized for not being amenable to receiving advice. Indeed, everyone has his blind spots. A great executive is one who turns to someone who can challenge his assumptions and help him avoid falling prey to his blind spots. |
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| The Basics of M&A Due Diligence |
Topic: Mergers and Acquistions |
| In advising companies that are acquisition candidates, two of the questions that I most frequently receive are: 1. What should I expect from the due diligence process? and 2. How can I best protect my confidential information while still moving the process forward? Of course, the due diligence proce... |
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| Defending Your Intellectual Property Thru Defensive Publication |
Topic: Intellectual Property |
| Many savvy intellectual property strategists are securing their IP positions and poisoning the well for their competitors through defensive publication. Stewards of IP assets can inexpensively demark an area for future practice by publishing articles on their websites or in referred publications. |
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| Monetizing & Managing Your Patent Portfolio: PT 1 |
Topic: Intellectual Property |
| Intellectual property has become a key corporate asset. As with any asset, its value comes from the returns you can expect when putting it to work. Unlike most assets, however, patents and other intellectual property are created by the constitution and legislature and their fundamental value comes... |
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| Preparing for Growth: Making Your LLC a Corporation |
Topic: Strategy |
| In selecting a business entity, the focus is often on the limited liability, single level of taxation, and informality offered by a limited liability company (LLC). However, LLCs provide an additional benefit: relatively simple conversion to other business entities, especially the corporation. |
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| Eight Potential Pitfalls of Merger Transactions |
Topic: Mergers and Acquistions |
| A merger is a corporate transaction negotiated by two or more corporations which is effectuated in accordance with state statutory law and consummated by the adoption by each corporation of a plan of merger and the filing of certain documents with state officials. |
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| Strong Integration Prevents Deal Disintegration |
Topic: Mergers and Acquistions |
| Poor integration is typically the root cause of most failed M&A transactions. Companies often overlook or underemphasize the integration phase of a transaction, instead focusing their efforts on the diligence, negotiation and signing phases. |
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