Category Archives: Commercial

New Treatise! Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants 

Noncompete Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants is an essential guide to navigating the legal patchwork of restrictive covenant laws. This newly published, digital only treatise provides a comprehensive review of the laws of restrictive covenants, broken down state-by-state. Written by and designed for practicing lawyers, each chapter spotlights a single state and includes key information on a range of topics.  

Topics include:  

  • Enforcement of restrictive covenants 
  • Special issues for specific occupations 
  • Litigation considerations, strategies, and remedies, such as Nebraska’s 

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Free 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.

February’s free form:

Information Security Agreement Template Provisions

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  • Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.

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Book Update: Equipment Leasing– Leveraged Leasing

For over forty-five years, PLI’s Equipment Leasing– Leveraged Leasing has been the go-to resource for comprehensive legal, tax, economic, accounting, environmental, and insurance information to optimize leasing deals. The Seventh Edition updates readers on industry advancements, guiding them on whether to lease or buy, comply with leasing laws, draft agreements, achieve client goals, and minimize legal and financial risks.

The new release (Release #2) includes the following update:

  • Chapter 14A, Climate Finance Assets, discusses the use of capital investments in assets that mitigate or adapt to climate change, creating opportunities for financing new technologies like LED lighting, batteries, solar, wind, hydrogen, heat conversion, and geothermal. This chapter also presents information that is key to understanding the economics of the new technologies, the legal structures for financing them, and related issues.

The Table of Authorities and Index have also been updated to assist you in your research.

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Free 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.

May’s free form:

Internet Domain Name Purchase Agreement

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

Treatise Update: Commercial Ground Leases (Fourth Edition)

Commercial Ground Leases (Fourth Edition) acquaints readers with key concepts, dispute resolution practices, and drafting strategies concerning commercial ground leases. The book features enlightening discussions on base and ground rents, reappraisals, tenant and landlord financing, subletting, exculpatory clauses, mortgage financing, insurance and damage considerations, defaults, redemption, and rights to repurchase, inflation indexing and other important commercial ground lease concepts, along with dozens of practice-ready forms and checklists.

The new release includes the following updates:

  • Chapter 3, Base Rent and Other Payments, includes an updated discussion of indexing and step rents.
  • Chapter 4, Reappraisal of Ground Rents, highlights a new discussion that traces the history of ground rent resets and provides an annotated form of reappraisal clause involving both use value and highest and best use reappraisal techniques.
  • Chapter 8 , Leasehold Financing, includes new lease provisions.
  • Appendix A, Ground Lease, includes updated Annual Minimum Rent provision during the Extended Term involves both use value and highest and best use reappraisal techniques.
  • Appendix X, Inflation Indexing, is updated with Chart 5, which covers the years 1950 to 2024, a total of seventy-five years.

The Tables of Authorities and Index have also been updated.

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Treatise Update: Hillman on Commercial Loan Documentation (6th Edition)

Hillman on Commercial Loan Documentation offers practical guidance on how to document transactions in ways that secure lenders’ interests, minimize their risks, and protect them from liability. Packed with time-saving sample forms and sample drafting language, this book allows you to craft more quickly and confidently the full range of relevant documents, including loan agreements, security agreements, financing statements, pledges, guaranties, and opinion letters. This book also illustrates how to create loan closing checklists that ensure every key step is taken to get solid deals done and how to draft agreements that protect lenders from environmental risks, resolve conflicts with creditors, and allow lenders to capitalize on lucrative financing opportunities.

The new release includes the following updates:

  • Revised § 20:2.1, Evidence of Property Insurance, explains that an ordinary “loss payee” clause may not protect the lender against the borrower’s arson, insurance fraud, or negligence.
  • Revised § 24:2.1, The Debtor Changes Its Name, explains that under the federal REAL ID regulations, an individual’s driver’s license must include the debtor’s full middle name, not just a middle initial, possibly making a filing “seriously misleading.”
  • New § 24:9, Changes in the Means of Perfection, examines the 2022 Code amendments adding control to the perfection techniques for controllable electronic records, controllable accounts, controllable payment intangibles, and electronic money.

The following forms have also been updated:

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New Title! Commercial Legal Finance

PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new practice guide Commercial Legal Finance.

This book offers industry-specific guidance on the mechanics of litigation and arbitration finance in key jurisdictions and practice areas around the world.  It provides a wealth of applied use cases for law firms and corporations and addresses key questions concerned with legal finance structures, pricing, and ethical considerations. The book also gives a step-by-step overview of the process for obtaining legal finance and a helpful glossary of terms.

Notably, Commercial Legal Finance covers the following important topics:

  • The basics of commercial legal finance (see Chapter 1)
  • The role of the funder (see Chapter 2)
  • The mechanics and economics of funding (see Chapter 3)
  • The major ethical issues related to legal finance (see Chapter 4)
  • The financing of investor-state arbitration (see Chapter 5)
  • Key considerations for financing patent litigation and other intellectual property matters (see Chapter 6)    

In addition, the book devotes full chapters to the use of funding in the U.S. (Chapter 7), England and Wales (Chapter 8), Europe (Chapter 9), Asia (Chapter 10), and Australia (Chapter 11).

We are excited to share this new title with you!

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Treatise Update – Hillman on Documenting Secured Transactions: Effective Drafting and Litigation (Third Edition)

Hillman on Documenting Secured Transactions offers grounded guidance on best practices for documenting and litigating secured transactions prepared pursuant to Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.). It offers a working grasp of the legal, technical, and business aspects of Article 9 transactions and examines the effects of the 2022 Amendments on nearly every article of the U.C.C. To gain free access to Chapter 18, which addresses the 2022 Amendments in more detail, click here.

Among the many topics updated in this new release are the following:

  • Perfection: A table of the new perfection methods under the 2022 Amendments (see section 2:6.2).
  • Signed Security Agreements: A listing of the increased number of situations in which a signed security agreement is not necessary under the 2022 Amendments (see section 4:1.2).
  • After-Acquired Collateral: A summary of the ways in which the 2022 Amendments narrow the scope of the prohibitions against security interests in after-acquired consumer goods or commercial tort claims (see section 7:2).
  • Control Under the 2022 Amendments: A discussion of how the 2022 Amendments offer new ways to perfect security interests in digital assets (see section 18:4).
  • Unperfected Security Interests: An explanation of the changes the 2022 Amendments make to U.C.C. § 9-317(b) regarding buyers who receive delivery (see section 19:2.1).

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