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Treatise Update: Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook

Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook is an essential reference guide on emerging trends in insurance and investment management M&A.

With this release, this Deskbook is fully up-to-date and covers many topics including acquisitions of public insurance companies, blocks of insurance business and private acquisitions; the regulatory environment of the insurance industry and the financial services industry; investment in the insurance industry by private equity and pension funds; and the expansion of insurance industry participants into emerging markets around the globe.

The new release includes updates to the following chapters:

  • Chapter 2: Updates include a discussion of the regulations and guidelines meant to prevent the discriminatory use of personal credit scores, external data, algorithms, and predictive models in pricing decisions for insurance policies.
  • Chapter 4: This chapter includes updates on Treasury and IRS guidance on the impact of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT) on the insurance industry.
  • Chapter 7: Updated to include the latest on the participation of private equity firms in the insurance space, including NAIC recommendations to address concerns reflected in their list of Regulatory Considerations and guidance from the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) on how regulators should evaluate acquisitions by private equity firms in the run-off sector.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

What’s New on PLI PLUS

We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises/Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

Click here to see what we added in April 2024! 

Last Chance to participate in the PLI PLUS Scavenger Hunt!

Last Chance to participate in the PLI PLUS Scavenger Hunt! The first two people to answer all three of the following questions correctly will be entered to win a copy of Knowledge Management and Innovation by author Patrick Dundas!

  1. Name the author who mentions To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie Jagged Edge in the same chapter.
  2. What is the oldest item on PLUS?
  3. Find the book on PLUS that has the most forms.

Ask a PLI Librarian…

Our librarians are always available to provide assistance whenever you need it, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us today and in the future!

PLI’s team of library relations managers are available to answer any questions you may have about PLI PLUS, the online research database of PLI Press. While PLI PLUS is intuitive, we have heard frequently that trainings are helpful in optimizing the user experience and reducing time spent searching for content. PLI’s team of library relations managers are available at your fingertips! Schedule a one-on-one session with a PLI librarian today!

Happy National Library Week!

Happy National Library Week from our library team to yours! As information professionals living in the information age, librarians are more important than ever. We are proud to work with so many amazing librarians and knowledge workers to provide attorneys, students, and legal professionals with access to expert-authored legal analysis and practice-oriented content.

You are invited to participate in the Library Week celebration with the PLI PLUS Scavenger Hunt!

Head over to PLI PLUS, and put your research skills to the test!

The first two people to answer all three of the following questions correctly will be entered to win a copy of Knowledge Management and Innovation by Patrick Dundas.

  1. Name the author who mentions To Kill a Mockingbird and the movie Jagged Edge in the same chapter.
  2. What is the oldest item on PLUS?
  3. Find the book on PLUS that has the most forms.

Please submit your answers to plus@pli.edu and put “PLUS Scavenger Hunt” in the subject field.

Winners will be notified via email on April 19th.

Treatise Update- International Corporate Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success

International Corporate Practice provides guidance on building a comprehensive global legal department and includes advice on structuring, staffing, and budgeting, as well as the use of foreign legal consultants and outsourcing.

Written by some of the nation’s leading corporate attorneys, this book will help you to develop compliance programs that minimize clients’ legal exposure in foreign markets, commercialize intellectual property, evaluate successful mergers and acquisitions abroad, structure effective international project financing transactions, ensure clients satisfy international guidelines crucial to their global viability, and manage legal challenges facing clients overseas.

The new release includes updates to the following chapters:

The Index has also been updated for this release.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.

Free Legal Form of the Month

PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

April’s free form:

Illustrative Timeline for Traditional Plan Approval Process

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
  •  Popular PLUS Forms – This flyer provides a list of the top five most downloaded forms in prominent practice areas on PLI PLUS.

Send us an email at plus@pli.edu to learn more.

Treatise Update- Patent Litigation (3rd Edition)

Patent Litigation (3rd Edition) is an indispensable practical resource for every patent litigator. This treatise increases your ability to prevail at trial while helping you cut the costs and complexity of litigation. Written by leading patent litigators, this treatise helps guide it’s readers through the litigation process, helping them to understand various infringement actions and their respective burdens of proof; conduct comprehensive pre-suit investigations that streamline your cases; develop potent case themes; assemble strong litigation teams; get an early edge over opponents during discovery; reduce expenses by developing smart litigation budgets; maximize the persuasive impact of documents, exhibits, and lay and expert witnesses; and fortify their case while controlling costs by making savvy use of computers, jury consultants, and litigation support vendors.

Highlights of this release include:

  • Corporate disclosures under Rule 7.1 and the hotly debated issue of whether recent court-imposed disclosure requirements are justified or permissible (see section 3:7).
  • Case law from the federal circuit vacating a preliminary injunction that barred a patentee from informing the accused infringer’s customers of patent infringement because the accused infringer had not shown the infringement accusations to be unreasonable or objectively baseless as a matter of literal infringement or infringement under the doctrine of equivalents (see section 10:3.2).
  • Examples of courtroom technology available in common patent venues (see section 11:7.4).
  • The important role played by the Office of Unfair Import Investigations in section 337 proceedings before and after complaint filing (see section 14:4.4).
  • An expanded discussion of the remedies available in an ITC litigation (see section 14:4.9).
  • A new section on the public interest factors that the ITC must consider in fashioning a remedy (see section 14:4.10).

The Index and Table of Authorities have also been updated.

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PLI PLUS subscribers can access this title through their subscription.