Microalgae have the ability to replace fishmeal and fish oil as feed. Algae promises to be an important supplement for protein as well as other nutrients. The demand for feed rises as the global demand for fish and meat products rises.

Often, developers will look to a HUD offered loan called the HOME loan. Essentially, each eligible level of government is granted an allocation amount. The local government will then allocate parts of that amount to help developers with gap financing.

If you haven’t heard by now, three years ago we had our second depression. Behemoth companies such as Lehman Brother, Bear Stearns, Merril Lynch, and the list goes on, were all affected. What happens when a country built on issuing credit based on trust and character worthiness stops lending and disbursing loans? If you haven’t guessed it—the answer is 2008!!!

What is gross income? The ultimate goal for the private investors taking part in this transaction is to reduce their gross income.  Unless otherwise provided by the Internal Revenue Code, gross income includes all income from whatever source derived.  Income includes any accession to wealth,...

The way NMTCs and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) are connected is that NMTCs enable banks with the financial incentive to comply with the requirements set forth by the CRA.  The banks are able to invest in a NMTC transaction that benefits them by obtaining tax credits and allows them to...

The idea of parallel imports is one of much controversy. Almost no other issue has permeated international business law as that of “grey goods” and “parallel imports”. Imagine, that a big clothing retailer aka Big Jeans sells its jeans in a developed market like the United States for...

Trademarks are an important function in the corporate and consumer realm. Branding allows the end consumer to save on searching time and creates an expectation of quality.When you walk into an Armani or Hugo Boss retail store there is an expectation of quality in the material and to be up to date if not ahead of current fashion.

Check your cell phone agreement, insurance policy, or almost any other agreement you enter into, there will be an arbitration clause. Whereby, whether you know it or not, but after you have signed the contract, you have agreed to forgo your rights through the litigation process so that you will submit to an arbitration procedure.

In 2006 Mercexchange bought a patent, which was essentially eBay’s business model, and then successfully enforced it against eBay. Needless to say, Mercexchange made tons of money from selling their patent to eBay. To be honest, I applaud the Mercexchange lawyers. Here’s how Mercexchange did it.

In the past decade a new form of loan arrangement has been sweeping the nation, plaintiffs who take loans while still in pursuit of a verdict or settlement. The basic framework for this transaction is that the loan company will assess the plaintiff’s case, determine the potential payout amount, make a risk calculation based on the plaintiff’s likelihood of winning his/her case, and then make the loan taking/attaching the payment from the settlement or court award as collateral.

The premise of the lawsuit is that applications such as Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel and Dictionary.com (who are all named as defendants along with Apple Inc.) transmit personal information to advertisers without the consent of the user.

How do international business transactions work? Think about a game of poker. It’s pretty tough trying to account for: all the cards in a deck, the possible hands that each player may have and mannerisms of the dealer while abiding by the rules of the table.