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 ...

Parties to business acquisitions use indemnification clauses to provide security for harm that may result following the closing of the transaction. Indemnification obligations require one party to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael C. Rakower and Melissa Yang write that in New York, directors and officers sued for actions or inactions taken in connection with their corporate post have another avenue to seek relief from ...

The Supreme Court has a steady diet of constitutional tort cases, in which plaintiffs seek money damages for public officials’ claimed violations of their constitutional rights. This Term is no ...

A primary benefit of the no-recourse structure is that the private equity sponsor can distribute sale proceeds to its investors with minimal risk of a future clawback. This certainty is highly ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Indemnification spells out who is responsible for liabilities related to the pre-closing operations of the ...

Contractual indemnification provisions provide an incentive to contract that often serves the interests of both parties. As a result, they are commonplace in all manner of commercial agreements. When ...

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 ...