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April 2016
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February, 2016
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January 19, 2016
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Stephen Kranz said that the background of the Multistate Tax Commission’s new deputy executive director “should be viewed as likely guaranteeing” that the MTC’s proposed transfer pricing program “goes live in the near future.” Diann Smith agreed, noting that the new executive’s past MTC involvement means “there will not be much of an organizational learning curve. He will hit the ground running.”
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January 11, 2016
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Stephen Kranz and Diann Smith discussed defining state tax discrimination on Internet purchases. Ms. Smith said that “it seems that if Congress does not specifically designate a separate discrimination definition, it is perfectly reasonable that the statutory discrimination concept is the same as the commerce clause discrimination concept.” Mr. Kranz added that Congress “clearly … has the authority” to define tax discrimination, but that “any definition could have a negative impact outside the realm in which it was specifically created.”
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January 8, 2016
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McDermott health lawyers (13 in all) authored a bylined article on the legislative, regulatory, reimbursement, financial, technological and competitive changes affecting the healthcare sector in 2015 and 2016, an assessment that ranked number four among the 10 most-read expert analyses on Law360 in the first week of 2016.
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January 5, 2016
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Brooks Gruemmer, Emily Watson, Krista Lewis, Daniel Zucker, Maureen O’Brien, Gary Rosenbaum, Sarah Steigleder, Shawn Helms, Levi Kahn, Carla Hine and Jennifer Mikulina were members of the McDermott team that provided legal counsel to data analytics provider Infogix Inc. in its $300 million sale to a private equity investor.
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Unternehmensjurist, Issue 6, 2015
December, 2015
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November 2015
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In recent years, securities regulation has become a leviathan, riddled with traps for the unwary that can lead to arbitrary, disproportionate and perverse sanctions. Elsewhere, the lack of clearly defined rules creates uncertainty over areas such as determining investor collusion or defining bribery. In this article, The Hedge Fund Journal profiles SRZ’s leading securities litigation practice and talks to SRZ partners Eric A. Bensky, Brian T. Daly, Harry S. Davis, William H. Gussman, Jr., David K. Momborquette, Howard Schiffman, Gary Stein and Michael E. Swartz about key securities regulatory enforcement and civil litigation issues affecting the private investment fund industry as well as what to expect in 2016. The attorneys discuss the impact of the seminal Newman decision on insider trading law (including important limitations on the applicability of Newman), collaboration between U.S. and foreign securities regulators, market manipulation cases (including “spoofing” and other actions involving high frequency traders), liability of chief compliance officers and other “gate keepers,” activist investors, antitrust disclosure issues, fines and prime broker liability, compliance with Rule 105 under Regulation M (which relates to short selling in advance of certain secondary offerings), civil litigation relating to appraisal statutes, and the increasing interrelationship between SEC examinations, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, among other topics.
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November 25, 2015
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Dr. Carsten Böhm and Dr. Jan Hückel, private equity and M&A partners in the Düsseldorf and Munich offices, led McDermott’s representation of the Aurelius Group on acquiring the business activities of Reuss-Seifert & Hammerl, a leading European supplier to the concrete industry. Other members of the McDermott team included Dr. Thomas Hauss, Dr. Gudrun Germakowski, Sebastian Bonk and Catharina Dickhäuser. Read the full article.
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November 23, 2015
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Stephen Kranz said more states should cover attorney’s fees for taxpayers who contest and win litigation with tax authorities, because it would “level the playing field between the government, which has the power of assessment, and taxpayers, who are forced to defend against that power when it’s used inappropriately.” Diann Smith added that “the availability of attorney’s fees for a successful taxpayer is not necessarily found in the tax or revenue statute. A taxpayer can sometimes look outside those statutes and use the more general statutes to claim attorney’s fees.”
