When your real estate company seeks financing to acquire or renovate a piece of commercial real estate, lenders don’t just evaluate the building itself. They evaluate the leases that generate the building’s income. For income-producing real properties the leases are often more important than the physical structure. A beautiful, well-maintained office building with weak tenants […]
Asset Acquisitions vs. Stock Purchases: The Strategic Decision That Shapes Your Deal
This is the first blog in Finkel Law Group’s multi-part series on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in California. In any merger or acquisition, one of the earliest and most important decisions is whether to structure the deal as an asset acquisition, a stock purchase, or a merger. This foundational choice shapes the entire transaction’s risk […]
Using Trademarks as Collateral for Financing
This blog is the twelfth installment in Finkel Law Group’s ongoing trademark law series. In earlier articles, we explored how to monetize trademarks through licensing and assignment. In this article, we examine a lesser-known but increasingly valuable strategy: Using your trademarks as collateral to secure financing. If your business owns one or more valuable trademarks, […]
Effectively Buying, Selling and Assigning Trademarks
This blog on Selling and Assigning Trademarks is the eleventh installment in Finkel Law Group’s trademark law series. In Blog 10, we examined how your company can license its trademarks to generate revenue while retaining ownership and control of your brand. In this blog, we focus on a different monetization strategy – selling trademarks outright […]
U.S. District Court for Northern District of California Enters Partial Summary Judgment Finding Using Copyrighted Material to Train AI Platforms is a Fair Use
Within a one-week period in June 2025, two federal judges in the Northern District of California entered summary judgment rulings on the application of the fair use defense under the Federal Copyright Act in connection with generative AI platforms’ use of copyrighted materials owned by several authors of works who did not give the AI […]
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