Patents and the Economic Crisis

Expert Article by Bart Van Wezenbeek The worldwide, but especially European economic crisis has lasted for about two years now and seems to hit the SMEs the hardest, at least in my country according to a newspaper today. A major part of the total of SMEs is formed by young start-up companies: they are still…

Certainty and predictability in cross-border proceedings

Expert Article by Selinda A. Melnik The markets long have recognized as essential to financial transactions certainty and predictability in the application of insolvency laws. Such assurance is particularly important for transactions involving multiple nations with dissimilar domestic laws. In the face of increasingly global financial transactions, frameworks designed to better ensure certainty have been…

Selinda A. Melnik

Biography Selinda A. Melnik is a partner in DLA Piper’s Restructuring practice, based in Wilmington, Delaware and New York City. An internationally recognized lawyer, during her 27 years of practice she has represented every type of domestic and non-US party and committee customarily involved in sophisticated insolvency proceedings, out-of-court restructurings, and front-end transaction bankruptcy protection…