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,

On December 6, 2021, New York City unveiled plans that will require all on-site employees of private businesses located in the city, from salons to multinational corporations, to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate for private employers is intended to limit the spread of the new Omicron variant this winter. As discussed below, this mandate is set to take effect on December 27, 2021, just days before current Mayor Bill de Blasio leaves office. Th

Our M&A transactions saw a trend towards more strategic buyers vs. pure private equity buyers, likely signaling that private equity owned platforms were executing on their growth via acquisition strategies and, correspondingly, non-private equity backed purestrategic buyers were executing on acquisitions to remain competitive. On the venture side, we also saw a trend toward more later round equity investments, with a heavier emphasis on Series A+ rounds vs. series seed and co

VIRTUAL EVENT FOR FEMALE EXECUTIVES REGARDING EMPLOYMENT NEGOTIATIONS. FEBRUARY 15TH, 2:30 - 3:45 PM. We are pleased to invite you to an UPWARD Event, Don't Leave Anything On The Table where Howard Matalon, Employment practices partner, will present alongside Jacqueline V. Twillie on the topic of employment negotiations for female executives.For more details and to obtain tickets, click here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dont-leave-anything-on-the-table-an-upward-event-ticket

Playing Offense. Frequently Asked Questions on External Penetration Testing What is a penetration test? A penetration test (“pen test”) is a cybersecurity exercise that simulates the malintent or nefarious activities of a hacker to identify vulnerabilities in your IT systems or applications. The aim of conducting a pen test is to understand what vulnerabilities exist in your business systems, how they could be compromised, and what the organizational impacts would be if a h

Both Russia and the Ukraine have effectively declared a cyberwar on each other in addition to the catastrophic physical war we see on the news each day. While the rest of the world has so far avoided getting embroiled physically in the war in Ukraine, with the US and most of Europe (among other nations) taking a hard line on Russia, and China (a nation from which a high volume of cybercrime emanates) seeming to side with Russia, the likelihood of the US getting dragged into

The wave of resignations that began last year and have only dropped modestly in Q1 of 2022 remains the crux of difficult days and sleepless nights for business leaders across all industries.[1] In too many cases, the employee exodus has crippled operations, forcing companies to turn away clients and damaging relationships with long-time partners. The idea of the Great Resignation—or the Big Quit, as it’s also called—implies that for millions of workers, the disruptions and up

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Consolidation of healthcare service providers continued at a rapid pace in the first quarter of 2022. The acquisition of a Queens and Long Island, New York multi-specialty physician practice by Summit Health is OlenderFeldman’s healthcare M&A deal of the first quarter 2022. OlenderFeldman LLP, represented Medical Associates in connection with its sale to New York-based healthcare practice network Summit Health. Medical Associates is a multispecialty physician group that provi