The shortest clauses in technology agreements can be among the most important. This article considers one such clause that appears in most technology contracts: the assignment clause. It appears in a ...

Insurance policies often incorporate assignment clauses, which require policyholders to obtain their insurers’ written consent before assigning their insurance policies to others. For example, the ISO ...

It is common practice for lenders to sell their loans after closing on them -- and this is especially true when it comes to mortgages and auto loans. If your loan contract has an "assignment without ...

In their Transactional Real Estate column, Peter E. Fisch and Mitchell L. Berg, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, discuss a recent case from the Delaware Court of Chancery which ...

Most business owners focus on the commercial points in a contract first: price, scope, timing, and deliverables. That makes ...

If you are not effectively negotiating the assignment and subletting cause in your lease, you are not leveraging one of the most important benefits of being a franchisee. Ninety percent of startup ...

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