The recent Dodd-Frank Act rollback includes a number of changes intended to relieve the regulatory burden on financial institutions. One of the most significant of these changes is the increase in the threshold for designating financial institutions as “systemically important financial institutions” from $50 billion to $250 billion in total assets.

The Office of Minority & Women Business Development (OMWBD) certifies minority-, women-, veteran- and disability-owned business enterprises (collectively, XBEs) for the City of Indianapolis & Marion County’s XBE Utilization Program. To be certified, a business must meet the following requirements.

If drafted well, nondisclosure agreements, also called NDAs or confidentiality agreements, can protect your business's non-public information, such as trade secrets, patents, designs, client lists and marketing research.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (the “Act”) changed the IRS partnership audit rules effective as of January 1, 2018. The partnership audit rules govern IRS audits of partnerships, including LLCs treated as partnerships for income tax purposes.

Contract analytics software is a new breed of legal software grounded in machine learning that assists lawyers in analyzing contracts more effectively and efficiently. This software will likely appeal to all lawyers who work with contracts, since reviewing and drafting contracts is legal work that is performed by lawyers from firms of all sizes.

The Commercial Court Pilot Project submitted its mid-pilot progress report to the Indiana Supreme Court. The report, which is available online, focuses on caseload and other statistics of the project, which is designed to bring about more efficient resolution of complex business litigation

On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed the “Buy American, Hire American” executive Order, signaling a renewed emphasis on enforcement of the “Buy American Act”, a piece of legislation dating from the end of the Hoover Administration that mandates the federal government give preference to purchasing American-made products in government procurements.

One of the most extensive and complicated changes to the Internal Revenue Code from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”) came with respect to the treatment of pass-through entities. 

Goldman lost $5.51 a share, compared with a profit of $2.35 billion, or $5.08 a share, in the same period a year earlier, the bank reported Wednesday. Excluding the one-time charges, the bank earned $5.68 a share, beating analysts' estimates.

Data breaches are becoming increasingly problematic during the due diligence stage of transactions. Find out investigating action items in this article.