February, 2020

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McKinsey’s Private Markets Annual Review

McKinsey Operations

Updated annually, our Private Markets Review offers the best of our research and insight into private equity, private real estate, and other private markets. Explore the findings from our most recent report and scroll for past years’ reports.

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Cardi B Wants to Trademark “Okurrr”

LoTempio Law Blog

Cardi B has been one of the most prominent music artist to date. She’s known for many things, including her famous catch phrase: “Okurrr.” However, Cardi B wants to pursue intellectual property protection for the phrase “Okurr,” such as trademark protection. But she may face some obstacles. What are the obstacles In the office action, […].

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Dust Off Your Flu Pandemic Policy Before You Are Asked About It

GDB Firm Blog

With everyone talking about Coronavirus, don't forget the Interagency Statement on Pandemic Planning. [link] When it was issued, banks were supposed to develop a written policy to deal with H1N1 flu, SARs, MERs, and other potential pandemics. You should already have such a policy. Expect to be asked about it at your next regulatory examination, so be prepared.

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BPCIA Scope Widens: 2020 Spending Bill Moves Chemically Synthesized Polypeptides to Biologic Status

Bio Law Blog

Buried in a 2020 spending bill passed in December 2019 is a provision that amends the definition of “Biological Product” in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) and thereby expands the products that will be regulated as biologic medicines and litigated under the BPCIA. The BPCIA defined “Biological Product” as “a virus, therapeutic serum, toxin, antitoxin, vaccine, blood, blood component or derivative, allergenic product, protein (excep

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Cybersecurity Risks Where You Least Expect Them

GDB Firm Blog

Approaching my first blogging anniversary, I am honored that Feedspot.com has named this one of the world's top 75 Bank Blogs. I'm glad to be in the top 75, and I hope, with your help as a blog follower, or even better if you link to this blog, to vault rapidly up the ladder. Let's quickly segue to my favorite topic these days, cybersecurity.

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I'm Begging You - Please Stop Giving Legal Advice To Customers

GDB Firm Blog

I feel silly writing this blog, but once again, I find myself facing a mess because a bank gave legal advice to a customer. This time, a friend and her three siblings own a Delaware limited liability company that owns four rental properties in New Jersey. Her mother, the manager of the LLC, died last September. When my friend tried to change the signature on the LLC account, the platform officer told her she had to file the LLC in New Jersey and sign a new beneficial ownership certification.