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Farming is a (Legally) Complex Business!
The cultural image of the family farm with a red barn, some chickens and a family sized country kitchen...
Understanding the Expropriation Process: Making the Best Decisions In a High Pressure Situation
Land owners faced with expropriation are quickly plunged into a complex, time sensitive, stressful and often unpleasant pr...
Why You Need an API License Agreement
Some companies may open up their API to third party developers without an API license agreement ('going naked'), however this can cause problems and lead companies to later need to create a...
Open Source Code (API) Allows Your Community to Give Helpful Feedback
When drafting an API licensing agreement, it may be prudent to consider that the less one-sided the restrictions are, the more the API will attract innovation by open source developers.
Understanding Crop Demand by Importing Countries and Their Regulations
The old adage 'the customer is always right!' applies to farming as it does to every industry. Grain c...
Why You Have to Care About Exclusive Use Clauses
It felt like I had a gun to my head: either lease up one of the most unpopular rundown builings in Alberta or go bust.
Reverse Stock Split Impacts Company ESOP
The reverse stock split is intended to increase the per-share trading price, in order to satisfy the $1 minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
Is Your Company ESOP Worth the Paper it's Printed On?
The way ESOPs usually work in startup companies is by issuing the options with a vesting period, usually four years. Once the shares are vested an optionee may purchase and own the...
Legal Tips and Tricks: Prepping Your Contracts for Acquisition
A critical part of a company acquisition is ensuring that the transaction is not missing any of the consents required of the contractual counterparties.
Role of the Board of Directors: To Protect the Investors
A Unanimous Shareholder Agreement is sensible when there are a small number of shareholders, however as a company start to grow, decision making will start to occur not by shareholder decision but...
Not For Profit Doesn't Mean that the Books Don't Need to Balance!
Not for profit corporations must make money to 'stay in business', but how the amount of surplus income and the purposes for which it is made is treated by tax authorities, may...
Employment Inducement Awards for Chief Executive Includes Acceleration Clause in Stock Option Plan
FTI Consulting granted 'Employment Inducement Awards' to induce its new Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer to join the company. The Inducement Awards included a stock option grant that was 'outside of the...
ESOP's Become Increasingly Popular in the Financial Sector
With the market recovering and stabilizing in 2014, ESOP's became a tool for the retention and motivation of employees especially in the financial sector.
Docstoc is Shutting Down and Urging Users to Download Their Documents Before Closure
What is Docstoc? The go-to business to for business related documents and cloud file sharing, Docstoc, is closing down on December 1st, 2015. Docstoc operated with the target market of small or...
Why You Have to Care About Insurance Clauses
The most hated of lease clauses - the Insurance Clause - is not only frequently ignored, but also poorly understood by almost everyone in the real estate industry. And that includes real...
Gramma Might Need a Prenup Too
This article considers the not uncommon situation where a senior falls in love with another senior and decides to marry.
Is a Waiver a Good Strategy to Protect a Family Business from Marital Breakup?
If a spouse operates or owns a family business, one strategy to protect that business would be to enter into a marriage contract that contains a waiver by the non-owner spouse of...
Licensing of Open APIs
The article discusses the objectives and benefits of an open API license, which are similar to a software license.
Apple's Licensing Restrictions - Do They Violate Competition Laws?
Apple's streaming music service has attracted a great deal of attention, from both music lovers and consumer interest groups alike.
Blog Bite: Should and will segments of unconscionable provisions remain?
This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com looks at a Supreme Court decision in 2011 which mandated that courts should not dump the entire agreement as long as it can be...
The Shut-Off of Twitter's Firehose is a Hazard of the API Economy
Since Twitter will no longer be selling its firehose data (full, unfiltered stream of tweets available from the service) to third party sellers, but will license the data to users of its...
Marriage Contracts and Child Support
Parties to a marriage contract cannot waive their obligations to provide support for their own children.
Market Pressure May Ease Data Restrictions
Controlling the license of the brand is important for both the licensor and the licensee. An API license allows a licensor to increase its brand recognition.
Blog Bite: Can parties in India agree to settle disputes using foreign law?
This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com uses case law to illustrate that the Courts in India have not offered consistent decision whether parties can rely on foreign law to settle...