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Jones Day San Francisco, CA Document Search Results (21) Show: results per page Sort by:  | The Rationale Against Substantive Consolidation of Nondebtor Entities: Florida on the Front Line
Dara R. Levinson; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article April 30, 2012, previously published on March/April 2012 On January 10, 2012, a Florida bankruptcy court ruled in In re Pearlman, 462 B.R. 849 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2012), that substantive consolidation is purely a bankruptcy remedy and that it accordingly did not have the power to consolidate the estate of a debtor in bankruptcy with the assets and affairs...
| | Equitable Mootness and Arbitration: First Impressions in the Ninth Circuit
Peter J. Benvenutti, Mark G. Douglas, Paul D. Leake; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2012, previously published on March/April 2012 2012 is shaping up as a year of bankruptcy first impressions for the Ninth Circuit. The court of appeals sailed into uncharted bankruptcy waters twice already this year in the same chapter 11 case. On January 24, the court ruled in In re Thorpe Insulation Co., 2012 WL 178998 (9th Cir. Jan. 24,...
| | SEC and CFTC Publish Proposed Identity Theft Red Flag Rules for Public Comment
Veronica K. McGregor, Mauricio F. Paez, Katherine S. Ritchey, Elaine Wallace; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2012, previously published on March 2012 On February 28, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") issued proposed rules and guidelines, requiring broker-dealers, mutual funds, and other SEC- and CFTC-regulated entities to create programs to detect and...
| | Will Recent Court Approval of Computer-Assisted Document Review Spur Acceptance in Antitrust Investigations?
Carmen G. McLean, Ryan C. Thomas, Craig A. Waldman; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article March 16, 2012, previously published on March 2012 Despite the increasing burden of e-discovery, private litigants and parties before the U.S. antitrust agencies have been cautious about embracing new e-discovery technologies to assist in identifying what documents are responsive to discovery or government requests.The reasoning is simple: concern...
| | California Attorney General Announces Agreement on Privacy Policies for Mobile Applications
Mauricio F. Paez, Elaine Wallace; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article March 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On Wednesday, February 23, 2012, California's Attorney General announced an agreement with the six largest mobile device companies that will require privacy policies for mobile applications. The agreement is the result of negotiations that began in August 2011 between the California Attorney...
| | U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission Close Antitrust Investigations Into High-Profile Patent Acquisitions
Serge Clerckx, Geoffrey D. Oliver, Craig A. Waldman, Johannes G. Zöttl; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article February 24, 2012, previously published on February 2012 This past week the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was closing its investigations of three high-profile acquisitions of substantial patent portfolios, including patents essential to implementing standards in the wireless communications and computer industries....
| | EPA Steps Up Enforcement to Address Fraudulent Environmental Credits
Charles M. Hungerford; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article February 10, 2012, previously published on Winter 2012 Recent fraud actions brought under the federal Renewable Fuels Standard, 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o), underscore the importance of exercising care in the purchase of credits and allowances in the marketplace. The enforcement actions address the purchase of Renewable Identification Numbers...
| | California Finalizes Greenhouse Gas "Cap and Trade" Regulations
Thomas M. Donnelly, Charles M. Hungerford; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article February 10, 2012, previously published on Winter 2012 As expected, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB") adopted greenhouse gas emission cap and trade regulations on October 20, 2011, and the California Office of Administrative Law approved the regulations on December 13, 2011. The program is a key component of CARB's effort to reduce...
| | Tax Reporting Deadline Rapidly Approaching For Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Rights
Shoshana E. Litt, Rory D. Lyons, Robert G. Marshall; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 By January 31, 2012, employers must deliver information statements to their employees (and shortly thereafter, to the IRS) that report exercises of incentive stock options ("ISOs") and transfers of stock under employee stock purchase plans ("ESPPs") that occurred during 2011.
|  | Employee Stock Plans: Year-End International Reporting Requirements—2012 Update
Shoshana E. Litt, Robert G. Marshall; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article January 16, 2012, previously published on January 2012 This Commentary highlights some of the principal calendar and year-end reporting requirements for employee stock plans that U.S. companies most commonly encounter when offering these programs to their employees in selected jurisdictions worldwide. Please note that this Commentary does not address...
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