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		<title><![CDATA[Using Leasing Techniques to Facilitate Distributed Solar Projects]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=3064</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Chung authored the article, &amp;ldquo;Using Leasing Techniques to Facilitate Distributed Solar Projects&amp;rdquo; for the Spring 2013 issue of the Journal of Equipment Leasing.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[That Sinking Feeling: Lessons Gleaned From Recent Maritime Bankruptcies]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=3032</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent years have witnessed several bankruptcies of significant shipping companies, and some observers have contended that more restructurings and bankruptcies of shipowners and charterers loom on the horizon.&amp;nbsp; This article will describe some successful tactics in recent cases and warn against others that are likely to siphon cash and cause unnecessary and unwarranted delay.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Don&#x2019;t Be Left &#x2018;High and Dry&#x2019; &#x2014; Maritime Lenders Can Glean Lessons from Recent Bankruptcies]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=3022</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bankruptcies and restructurings over the last few years have furnished several guidelines for prudent risk management in the always-turbulent maritime asset category. Blank Rome&amp;rsquo;s Stephen T. Whelan and Marc E. Richards identify a few pitfalls and positive lessons to be gleaned from these recent cases.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[11th Circuit Upholds Fraudulent Transfer Claims Against Lenders in TOUSA]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2835</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent decision, Senior Transeastern Lenders v. Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors (In re TOUSA, Inc.), 2012 US App. LEXIS 9796 (11th Cir. May 15, 2012), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a dist...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blank Rome Closed More Than 80 Reportable Transactions in 2011]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2736</link>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note:&amp;nbsp;the economic terms of certain deals are not disclosed due to confidentiality obligations)&amp;nbsp;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Secured Lender Loses to IP Owner in Dispute Over Proceeds of Trademarked Inventory]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2728</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;

	In an unorthodox ruling, a North Carolina appellate court recently held that a factor of trade receivables had neither a valid ownership interest nor security interest in certain of its borrower&amp;#39;s accounts receivable, or the proceeds thereof, because those accounts receivable were generated from inventory sold in violation of a third party&amp;#39;s trademark rights.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Third Circuit Revives Claims for Deepening Insolvency and Breaches of Fiduciary Duties In Action Against Lemington Home Officers and Directors]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2708</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Although commentators and courts have questioned the viability of an independent cause of action for deepening insolvency, Federal Courts interpreting Pennsylvania law will continue to hear such claims. &amp;nbsp;This development occurred in the recent Third Circuit of Appeals opinion in connection with the bankruptcy proceeding, In re Lemington Home For The Aged, http:--www.ca3.uscourts.gov-opinarch-104456p.pdf]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Trustee Office Proposes New Fee Application Guidelines]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2657</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 4, 2011, the Executive Office of the United States Trustee Program released proposed revisions to the Guidelines for Reviewing Applications for Compensation filed under Bankruptcy Code section 330.&amp;nbsp; The current guidelines became effective in 1996.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reporting Thresholds under New Form PF for Registered Investment Advisers Managing Hedge Funds, CLOs and CDOs]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2653</link>
		<description><![CDATA[CDO and CLO Managers are assessing reporting requirements under Form PF, jointly promulgated by the SEC and the CFTC as required under the Dodd-Frank Act.1 One recent issue raised by some managers who are registered investment advisers is whether assets held in CDOs and CLOs must be included for purposes of determining Form PF reporting thresholds for &amp;quot;private funds,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;hedge funds&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;private equity funds.&amp;quot;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can a Refinancing be "Collapsed" with a Prior Leveraged Acquisition and Avoided as a Fraudulent Transfer?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2642</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent decision of the Delaware bankruptcy court serves as a reminder of a key risk for lenders who finance leveraged transactions&amp;mdash;namely, that a bankruptcy court may &amp;ldquo;collapse&amp;rdquo; the components of a leveraged transaction in order to avoid the lender&amp;rsquo;s liens and the debtor&amp;rsquo;s loan obligations as fraudulent transfers.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blank Rome Closed 40 Reportable Transactions in 2011 Q1 and Q2]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2584</link>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: the economic terms of certain deals are not disclosed due to confidentiality obligations)]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standing in Bankruptcy Cases: Has the 3rd Circuit Expanded the Doctrine?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A threshold issue in any contested matter in bankruptcy cases is whether an objecting party has standing to be heard on its objection. If the objecting party can establish that it has standing, it may be heard on the disputed matter. Consistent with Article III standing under the Constitution, in bankruptcy cases, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has traditionally required that a party demonstrate some injury-in-fact, i.e.&amp;mdash;some &amp;quot;specific, &amp;#39;identifiable trifle&amp;#39; of injury,&amp;quot; or personal stake in the outcome of the litigation.&amp;quot; In a recent en banc decision, the 3rd Circuit revisited the standing doctrine in the bankruptcy context in In re Global Industrial Technologies Inc.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Holds Adviser Who Participated in Drafting Statements Did Not &#x201c;Make&#x201d; Them for Purposes of Rule 10b-5 Liability]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2481</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 13, 2011, the United States Supreme Court rendered a 5-4 decision ruling that only a mutual fund, and not its investment adviser, can be held liable in a private right of action under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &amp;quot;Exchange Act&amp;quot;) and SEC Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder for false statements in a fund prospectus. The case, Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders,1 limits liability under Rule 10b-5 by holding that only the party ultimately responsible for the disclosure is the actual &amp;quot;maker&amp;quot; of a false statement within the meaning of the Rule.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can a Usury Savings Clause Save the Lender?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2488</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Stein and Manasi Parekh, members of Blank Rome&amp;rsquo;s financial services practice group, were published in the June 15, 2011 edition of The Deal magazine in an article discussing usury savings clauses.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Holds Loss Causation Not Required For Class Certification]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2476</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 6, 2011, in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co.,1 the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision overruling the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and expressed the limited holding that investors are not required to prove &amp;quot;loss causation&amp;quot; to obtain class certification in a federal securities fraud case. The Court, however, reiterated its prior holdings that an essential element of any federal securities fraud action is proof that the deceptive conduct actually caused an investment, or economic, loss to the plaintiff(s).]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Practitioner&#x2019;s Perspective on the Proposed Article 9 Revisions]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2658</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[So You Thought You Had a Priority Lien: Unauthorized UCC Terminations May Extinguish Secured Lenders&#x2019; Liens]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2467</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The due diligence is complete, the loan documents are signed and the UCC financing statement has been filed and recorded in the proper jurisdiction. A lender should therefore reasonably anticipate that its priority position will continue to be secured, right? According to a recent case in the Southern District of New York, this expectation may be completely wrong.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blank Rome LLP Closed Over 70 Reportable Transactions in 2010]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2436</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mergers &amp;amp; Acquisitions]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service Announces Second Amnesty Program for Foreign Bank Accounts:  Deadline to Report Offshore Assets is August 31, 2011]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2397</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 8, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service unveiled its 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative, a long-awaited second amnesty program designed to encourage taxpayers with undisclosed foreign bank accounts to come into compliance with U.S. tax laws and avoid possible criminal prosecution.&amp;nbsp; This program follows a highly successful amnesty offered during 2009, and will be available only through August 31, 2011.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Potential Impact of Dodd-Frank Act on CDO-CLO Transactions]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2289</link>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the &amp;ldquo;Dodd-Frank Act&amp;rdquo;) has been widely identified as having a broad and sweeping impact on the financial markets as a whole, it will most ...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Collateralized Loan Obligation Management Contracts]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2275</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Grant Buerstetta, partner in Blank Rome&amp;rsquo;s financial services practice group, discussed key issues for hedge fund managers when purchasing collateralized loan obligation (CLO) management contracts.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blank Rome LLP Advises and Closed 76 Reportable Transactions with Over $4.1 Billion in Transaction Value for 2009]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2208</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mergers &amp;amp; Acquisitions]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Contributing Author: Chapter 8 of Business Workouts Manual, 2d]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2091</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Rabinowitz authored a chapter in the book entitled Business Workouts Manual, 2d.&amp;nbsp; The chapter is entitled "Problems Resulting From Improper Lender Conduct During the Workout."The book focuses on analysis and practical guidance&amp;nbsp;on all aspects of the business workout.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Factors in the Economic Recovery Central to Loan Participations]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2659</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blank Rome LLP Advises and Closed 73 Reportable Transactions with Over $1.6 Billion in Transaction Value for 2008]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=1943</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Mergers &amp;amp; Acquisitions

	$75 Million and Up]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Summary and Analysis of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=1699</link>
		<description><![CDATA["To provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, and for other purposes."]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lessee Remains Liable to Lessor Following Failed Mitigation]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=1755</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Giant Eagle, Inc. v. Phar-Mor, Inc., 2008 WL 2078787 (6th Cir. 2008) the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the lower courts erred in their determination that once a lessor mitigates its damages by entering into a substitute lease, the lessor cannot claim damages from the original lessee for the period covered by the new lease if the substitute lessee subsequently defaults.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parties to Second Lien Financing&#x2014;Will Their Expectations Be Met in a Workout?]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2660</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Workout Expectations of Parties to Second Lien Financing Deals]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2661</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Title Insurance Reissue Rates Must Be Disclosed]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=179</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Title agents and others involved in loan closings, e.g., mortgage brokers and lenders, must be sensitive to the need for consumers to be educated about title fee discounts to which they may be entitled. Florida&amp;#8217;s largest title insur...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UCC Article 9 revisions in effect in New Jersey]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2663</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2002 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Article 9: A Commercial Lawyer's Synopsis]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2664</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reclaiming Possession of Leased or Sold Goods]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2665</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1993 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equipment Lease or Security Agreement: Determining the Parties]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=2666</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1987 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Liability in Connection with Establishing Credit Facility]]></title>
		<link>http://www.blankrome.com/index.cfm?contentID=37&amp;itemID=722</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 1986 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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