At our law firm, we help Kentucky entrepreneurs, small and family businesses, professional practices and medium- to large-sized corporations to protect their intellectual property portfolios from misappropriation in the marketplace. These key business assets may...
In part 1 of this post, we introduced the concept of the noncompetition agreement that an employer may require an employee to sign that will restrict by contract the employee’s right to engage in competitive employment or business activity after they leave. We talked...
Often Kentucky businesses and professional practices wish to restrict employees from leaving to work for the competition. They may have legitimate concerns about a former employee taking with them knowledge of the industry and of the business, goodwill with customers...
Many people in the U.S. use stocks, bonds and other securities as major investment vehicles to help finance important personal and family goals. These retail investors – meaning individual, private, nonprofessional and noninstitutional investors – often turn to...
Owners of small, family businesses and individuals at various levels of wealth often invest their money in stocks to secure their futures and protect their families. The unfortunate truth is that these retail investors face some risk of becoming the victims of...
Older investors have heightened vulnerability to investment fraud and other kinds of financial exploitation during social isolation, which increases the chances of cognitive decline, warns a new investor bulletin from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Haymaker Development Company, LLC, of Lexington and its owner Timothy Haymaker and businessman and philanthropist Bill Gatton and the C.M. Gatton Trust have a history of cooperative work on significant Hamburg-area commercial and residential real estate developments....
In part 1 of this post, we shared that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) has adopted a final rule modernizing the investment adviser marketing and solicitation rules – calling the new regulation the “marketing rule.” In part 1, we describe the...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a final rule change that will modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising, which has not been done since 1961. The agency is calling it the “marketing rule.” Of course, over the decades...
Starting a business with a like-minded entrepreneur offers many advantages to combine similar skills and share the costs as well as the risks with someone equally committed to success. However, some of the positives can turn to negatives without a clear and documented...
