As pandemic restrictions are being slowly lifted, commercial landlords are struggling to satisfy their debt service obligations while anchor tenants keep the purse strings closed. In a recent article, Bloomberg News details the ongoing struggle some of the biggest commercial tenants and landlords on the rarefied real estate known as Fifth Avenue. To read the article, click here. Since the start of the Pandemic, OlenderFeldman, LLP has been helping both commercial landlords a

Welcome to the first edition of the VIGILANT PSA e-newsletter. The VIGILANT PSA e-newsletter is designed and dedicated to enable you to stay at the forefront of the latest advances in all about providing updates, information and practical advice/tips about Protecting, Securing and Advancing your and your clients’ and customers’ privacy, data and security in today’s modern Cyber world. Maybe we will even have some fun along the way. As a reader of the VIGILANT PSA e-newsletter

Just the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) - COVID-19 Vaccines in the Workplace (For a printable version of this Article, click here: FAQ - Vaccinations in the Workplace) Millions of employees have received vaccinations in the United States and federal and state authorities are easing COVID-19 restrictions. As a result of this expected shift in COVID-19 management, businesses have begun looking at normalizing workplace environments by implementing elective and mandatory vacc

On June 4, the European Commission adopted two new replacement sets of Standard Contractual Clauses (between Controllers and Processors, and separately for International Data Transfers) in light of the July 16, 2020 Schrems II decision which invalidated Privacy Shield and limited the use of the previous Standard Contractual Clauses. While the new Standard Contractual Clauses are currently being examined and analyzed, they were adopted to provide more clear guidance on data t

On June 8, the Colorado General Assembly and Senate passed the Colorado Privacy Act ( “CPA”), making Colorado the third US state (after California and Virginia) to pass a comprehensive privacy law. The bill now awaits signature or veto (which is not expected) by the Governor within 10 days. The CPA applies to businesses that collect and store data on more than 100,000 people or entities which earn revenue from the data of more than 25,000 consumers. While the details of th

With the stock market remaining robust and interest rates low, M&A and investor activity continues to be frothy. Good companies are selling for premiums, and market disruptors are finding competition for investment. All signs point to elevated transaction levels for the balance of 2021. Click here for OlenderFeldman's 2021 Q1 & Q2 Overview: OF Transactions Overview Q2 2021 We hope this information on companies we represented as transaction counsel in the first two quarters of

Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on our way of life, and businesses are no exception. Companies changed their operating procedures, updated their financial projections, took out PPP loans to cover payroll expenses, and found themselves having to continually update office policies relating to mask requirements, working from home, and now, vaccination status. For companies engaged in corporate transactions, these changes materially impacted deal terms and transaction mechanic

Non-Fungible Tokens, or “NFTs,” have increasingly begun to attract mainstream attention from creatives, collectors, investors, and a broad range of corporations seeking to explore this new form of digital property. But what are they exactly? What is a Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”)? NFTs are, generally speaking, non-fungible digital representations of the underlying rights that are being sold or licensed. Unlike many other popular iterations of digital assets that are fungible, l

Many businesses include Terms & Conditions of Use on their website and assume that by stating within those Terms & Conditions that they are binding on the user, they actually are binding on the user. Other businesses may be a little more direct, by including a clear link on their home page when the user first arrives. Under at least some circumstances, proceeding in this manner may risk a judicial finding that the Terms & Conditions actually are NOT binding. Specifically,