Is your business name registered?

Recently, we represented the buyer in a transaction in which it was purchasing (amongst other things) an operating business, the assets of which included several business names.  Although the buyer did not want to use the existing names of the business, the process of...

Why do Lawyers fail their clients?

One answer was suggested by Charles T. Munger in his address to the Harvard Law School class of 1948, as follows: To a lawyer, everything looks like a problem to be approached in a legal way and with legal tools. Munger calls this, “Man-with-a-hammer-tendency”, from...

Psychological Tendencies in Commercial Negotiations

Psychological Tendencies in Commercial Negotiations We are hardwired for fast reactions based on intuition and emotion, rather than thought and reason. In ancestral times, this was crucial. Spending time thinking when faced with a vicious predator, could be dangerous....