Category Archives: Technology

DATA PRIVACY LAWS – WHAT’S NEW IN 2024?

DATA PRIVACY LAWS – WHAT’S NEW IN 2024? By: Michael J. Feldman & Marguerite Kneisser Since the European Union (“EU”) enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in 2018, see OlenderFeldman 2023 Data Privacy Updates, calling for widespread change to the way data is collected, stored, transmitted, and secured, more and more states in the…
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2022 by the numbers Investment and M&A Transactions

Our 2022 M&A transactions continued the 2021 trend of a heavy emphasis on sales to private equitybackedstrategic buyers vs. direct sales to private equity, by a factor of 3:1, continuing to evidence that platform transactions from prior years were executing their growth-by-acquisition strategy. A significant number of M&A transactions evidenced downward pressure on enterprise value,…
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NEW REQUIREMENTS TO ENFORCE WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE

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…
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Five Things NFT Creators and Sellers Need to Know

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…
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