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Show: results per page Sort by:  | Derivative Product Companies: A Comparison of New Rating Agency Guidelines
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 10, 2013 Derivative product companies (“DPCs”) are structured financial entities that act as intermediaries for, or guarantors of, an affiliated entity (the “Sponsor”) under interest rate or FX derivatives with a non-affiliated counterparty (a “Counterparty”). In a...
| | What's Next for the Basal Securitisation Framework?
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2013, previously published on May 9, 2013 Comments have now been received by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”) in response to its consultative paper entitled “Revisions to the Basel Securitisation Framework”, published in December 2012 (the “Consultation Paper”). The...
| | Treasury and the IRS Propose Regulations on $500,000 Compensation Deduction Limit for Health Insurers
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2013, previously published on May 8, 2013 On April 2, 2013, the Treasury Department and the IRS issued proposed regulations under section 162(m)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, which generally imposes an annual $500,000 limitation on the amount that certain health insurers and their affiliates (“Covered Health Insurance...
| | OIG Releases Updated Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 8, 2013, previously published on May 3, 2013 On April 17, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services released a revised Self-Disclosure Protocol that updates previous guidance for how health care providers can voluntarily disclose and resolve instances of potential...
| | Tempting Fate: Two Recent Federal Decisions Apply Fairness Test to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege in Face of Extrajudicial Disclosures
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 18, 2013 On February 25 and March 26, 2013, two federal district courts refused to find a broad waiver of the attorney-client privilege in the face of extrajudicial disclosures of privileged communications. In both decisions, the courts reasoned that extrajudicial disclosures of privileged communications...
| | Court Holds that Stockton is Eligible to File for Chapter 9
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 6, 2013, previously published on April 3, 2013 On April 1, 2013, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California ruled that the City of Stockton qualified to file for protection under chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code. The court’s decision on this issue serves as an important milestone for chapter 9 jurisprudence,...
| | CFTC Issues Final Exemption Order for RTO/ISO Transactions
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 6, 2013, previously published on April 3, 2013 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) on March 28, 2013, issued its final order exempting certain regional transmission organizations and independent system operators (“RTO/ISOs”) and specified transactions in their respective markets,...
| | Third Time's A Charm?: New York State Agencies Release Latest Revision of Proposed Regulations Restricting Executive Compensation and Administrative Costs of State-Funded Providers
Christina T. Holder, Pamela Landman, Brian T. McGovern; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2013, previously published on March 28, 2013 On March 13, 2013, the New York State Department of Health (“DOH”) along with 12 other State agencies released yet another iteration - the third version - of proposed regulations limiting the use of State funds for executive compensation and administrative expenses of health care...
| | UK Budget 2013 - Key Tax Measures
Adam Ferguson Blakemore, Ramona Simms; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 21, 2013 The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s fourth Budget, held on 20 March 2012, continued the prevailing taxation themes in recent Budgets of balancing between stimulus and business incentives on the one hand, and anti-avoidance initiatives on the other. However, perhaps more than recent Budgets, the...
| | Ninth Circuit’s Harkonen Decision Does Not Undermine Recent Second Circuit Precedent Establishing That Truthful Promotion Of Approved Drugs For Off-Label Use Is Protected By The First Amendment
Cadwalader Wickersham Taft LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2013, previously published on March 22, 2013 On March 4, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the conviction of W. Scott Harkonen (“Harkonen”), who had been tried and convicted of wire fraud for issuing a fraudulent press release regarding the results of a clinical trial. In its unanimous,...
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