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Risk and uncertainty have been pervasive throughout the first quarter of 2020. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has been no exception, and the allocation of the risk of loss due to a breach of representations and warranties is paramount to parties ...

Stay disciplined and seek opportunities to upgrade portfolios. Don’t succumb to panic. After having avoided several near misses, U.S. equities fell into bear market territory for the first time in more than 11 years, plunging a dizzying 32% from record ...

If there’s one thing the month of March 2020 has taught us, it’s that the stock market doesn’t go up in a straight line.  Indeed, since its very inception, the equity market has experienced corrections, bear markets (often associated with ...

For more than a decade, the trucking and distribution industries in the U.S. have grappled with a worker shortage that has only exacerbated under an increasingly tight labor market. The most recent data shows that in 2018, the trucking industry ...

In my first draft of this column, the first sentence started with “During fast-changing times like these …” But I rewrote it because, really, when are times not fast-changing? While a presidential election and global pandemic add uncertainty to our ...

Transportation provider Leonard’s Express can have a tractor-trailer in Arizona carrying produce and be able to monitor the temperature inside the trailer and adjust it from a laptop at its Farmington-based headquarters, says Michael L. Riccio, chief marketing officer for ...

We are experiencing a massive shift in how people are consuming video content on their televisions. The number of homes with paid TV service (cable or satellite) peaked in 2014 at 100.5 million. According to eMarketer, this number will decline ...

Christine Whitman believes it is better to be overcautious than underprepared as her firm navigates the business landscape amid the COVID-19 outbreak. “We’ve taken this very seriously right from the beginning and have been planning for it,” says Whitman, chairman ...

“America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” — Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite died in 2009.  I am not sure of the date of this quote.  However, the “most trusted man in America” was certainly accurate when he ...

Business owners: Over the last few weeks, you have faced many difficult decisions and undoubtedly, there will be more in the weeks and months to come. You already know that owning a business and being responsible for the welfare and ...

As I write this, much of the country is on lock-down due to the coronavirus. Schools, bars and restaurants are empty; people not in essential services are staying home and avoiding even small gatherings; the stock market has lost over ...

As we adjust to life during, and after, the COVID-19 outbreak, families and businesses alike are faced with worrisome financial uncertainty. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order requiring that all “non-essential” workers in New York state remain at home and certain businesses ...

Businesses ranging from restaurants to contractors, hotels and clothing stores rely heavily on reviews and commendations from previous customers and clients to attract future business, and many companies are increasingly seeking ways to encourage consumers to share positive experiences across ...

Corporations of all shapes and sizes are subject to millions, if not billions, of statutes, regulations, rules, directives, guidelines, decrees and executive orders. Given the pervasive and encyclopedic nature of legal mandates on corporations, one question business professionals may rightly ...

Peloton Interactive Inc., the popular fitness enterprise, came under scrutiny last holiday season for its commercial depicting a man gifting one of the company’s stationary bikes to his wife.  Before most could “work off” those festive foods consumed during the ...