360 Diligence for Digital Health Investments: What to Watch in Today’s Market Trends

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Contributors: Dudley Baker, Managing Director, Holihan Lokey | Luiz Greca, Managing Director, Holihan Lokey | Chris Schickling, Managing Director, Gallagher The digital health industry is complex and highly regulated, presenting unique challenges for investment in this space – especially for investors new to the healthcare industry. Healthcare companies have business lines and regulators that do…

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Internet Law

HST Implications When Selling Short-Term Rental Properties

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A safe way to approach a real estate transaction is to assume that Harmonized Sales Tax (“HST”) applies to the transaction, unless there is a specific exemption available under the Excise Tax Act. A common exemption relied on in real estate transactions is the sale of a used “residential complex” by a person (as opposed…

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Canada Law

Plaintiff’s Judiciary Law 487 and Fraud Allegations Fail

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Andrew Lavoott Bluestone has been an attorney for 40 years, with a career that spans criminal prosecution, civil litigation and appellate litigation. Mr. Bluestone became an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County in 1978, entered private practice in 1984 and in 1989 opened his private law office and took his first legal malpractice case. Since…

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New York Law

Copyright, the AI Act and extraterritoriality

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Generated with OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model based on a prompt corresponding to the wording of Recital 106 AI Act Introduction The interaction between the AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) and the exceptions for text and data mining (TDM) in the CDSM Directive is one of the most important topics in EU copyright law today. One particularly…

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European Law

When Antisemitism Isn’t Taboo: Reflecting on the Response to Nazi-Era Hate on the Streets of Montreal

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Last week, as Concordia students staged a “strike” to protest the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, video captured someone giving a Nazi salute to nearby Jewish students while repeatedly declaring the “final solution is coming your way.” Antisemitism has become far too common, but this incident, which had unmistakable Holocaust echoes, still had the capacity…

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Internet Law

Parsing Populism – Double Aspect

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Over at his indispensable blog Public Law for Everyone, Mark Elliott writes about an online petition to the UK Parliament which calls for a new general election. The stated reason for this demand is that the petition’s signatories “believe that the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead…

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Canada Law

End of the Road: German Constitutional Court Closes Achmea Chapter

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On March 6, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered its (in)famous Achmea judgment (Case C-284/16), which subsequently became synonymous with the demise of investor-state arbitration in bilateral investment treaties between Member States of the European Union (“intra-EU BITs”). In this decision, the CJEU concluded that investor-state arbitration clauses in intra-EU…

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European Law

Washington State to AOL: You’ve Got Nailed

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Originally posted 2011-09-28 10:33:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The Internet Cases blog comes through again, reporting on this decision, holding that the forum selection clause in AOL’s terms of service does not trump the State of Washington’s consumer fraud law. I litigated a similar issue in a case called Kubis & Perszyk., Inc….

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What Parents Need to Know

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In Ontario, a big change to family law took effect on March 1, 2021. The old terms “custody” and “access” have been replaced with new terms: parenting time and decision-making responsibility. These changes aim to make the language around child custody less contentious, and more focused on what’s best for children, while encouraging parents to…

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Property Law

Canada Post Strike 2024: A Case for Cloud-Based Law Firms

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On November 15, 2024, approximately 50,000 Canada Post workers began a nationwide strike after more than a year of negotiating between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and their employer.  This strike has halted most mail and parcel services nationwide, with exceptions for government benefit payments (including the Canada Pension Plan and Child Tax…

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