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Two farm credit lenders get stockholder approval to merge

Middle Market Debtors Who Need Bankruptcy Relief: What To Do? (The “Nebraska Three-Step”)

By: Donald L Swanson This is reality: Small businesses reorganize, all the time, under Subchapter V; Farmers reorganize, all the time, under Chapter 12; and Large businesses reorganize, all the time, under regular Chapter 11. That’s because all of

Online banks, hoping to lock in lower funding costs, start battling for CDs

Ron Seiffert, chairman and CEO of Northwest Bancshares, dies at 65

‘Not a lot of momentum’ to reform outdated flood insurance program

New DOJ policy gives greater freedom to good-faith hackers

Embattled payments startup Bolt is cutting staff

Kansas City Fed President Esther George to retire, creating second 2023 opening

The Monetization Of Intellectual Property In Bankruptcy And Restructuring

ABI Panel. Last month I had the honor of speaking on a panel at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 2022 Annual Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C. The topic of our panel was the Monetization of Intellectual Property in Bankruptcy and Restructuring. I

Dealmakers tap the brakes on bank M&A

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C-suite executives' tunnel vision is damaging their businesses

The Continued Growth of Unitranche Financing

Unitranche financing began as a middle-market product, tracing its origins to the days of recovery from the global credit crisis. The credit markets re-opened with an explosion of available capital from traditional lenders, business development

Stripe expands bitcoin conversions in latest crypto push

How Russia's war in Ukraine has weaponized payments

Surge in business lending propels profit at BMO, Scotiabank

Can You Spot the Differences? And Similarities? Comparing Family Divorces with Business Divorces in Mediation

Sylvia Mayer of https://smayerlaw.com/ joins Mac Pierre-Louis and Natalia Olowska-Czajka of https://olowskapierre.com/ to explore the differences and similarities between mediating family divorces (when a couple separate and need to divide up their

Book Review: Robert Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade (Part 1)

Sylvia Mayer of https://smayerlaw.com/ joins Mac Pierre-Louis and Natalia Olowska-Czajka of https://olowskapierre.com/ to discuss Robert Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade. Sylvia is an avid reader and shares her

Mediator Insights: Dropping Anchor Bias in Mediation and Negotiation

While we may think we are objective and open-minded, we all have internal cognitive biases that affect our understanding and decision-making. One common bias is anchor bias, which occurs when we rely heavily on one piece of data to the exclusion of

Mediator Insights: Click Clack Moo: Balancing Competing Interests in Mediation

In simple terms, litigation is a conflict arising from competing interests. Party A sues Party B. Party A wants money. Party B does not want to pay. Party A wants a contract modified or terminated. Party B does not. There are a myriad of dynamics in