Plan sponsors should ask for indemnification clauses when they enter into contracts with service providers and retirement plan advisers, experts say. Indemnification clauses are promises by the ...

A primary benefit of the no-recourse structure is that the private equity sponsor can distribute sale proceeds to its ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Outside of the representations and warranties in a purchase ...

If you are serving as an officer or director of a public company (or a large private company), it has never been more important to make sure that you have an aggressively protective personal ...

Corporate bylaws and operating agreements often contain provisions that provide for indemnification to directors, officers and in some cases employees and agents who become parties to litigation, ...

In most M&A transactions involving a privately held target, the seller’s representations and warranties and its indemnification obligations are the most heavily negotiated provisions in the definitive ...

Law and Emergency Medicine is a new feature that will be appearing regularly in Common Sense. Articles will focus on legal, regulatory, and political issues that affect emergency physicians. We need ...

There are many opportunities to serve on the board of a nonprofit corporation, whether a public charity, private foundation, home-owner association, trade association, or church. Before joining a ...

This is the first of a series of articles on transactional contracts issues by Prof. Michael L. Bloom and students in the Transactional Lab at the University of Michigan Law School. Indemnification ...

Microsoft has clarified its IP indemnification policy, saying that it will indemnify claimants against damages as well as just legal costs, but some legal observers say the company still needs to ...

If purchasing software were as straightforward as buying a car, users would not have to think twice about the risk of intellectual property lawsuits. Say General Motors (GM) claims it owns a patent on ...