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Recent Lawsuits Against Home Mortgage Servicers Focus on Bankruptcy Compliance

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Neil E. McCullagh in Corporate and Business, Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Insolvency

The past year has brought notable court decisions regarding alleged failures by home mortgage servicers to comply with bankruptcy rules and orders. The stakes have been high, with the servicers often ...

Virginia Pass-Through Entity Tax and Multitier Tax Partnerships

Posted on July 22, 2022 in Corporate and Business

Virginia just enacted a pass-through entity tax (“PTET”), which applies in 2021 through 2025, inclusively. Many commentators have addressed the PTET, and I defer to them for the details. The PTET allo...

Opportunity Fund Zones: Three Ticking Clocks?

Posted on June 9, 2022 in Commercial Real Estate, Corporate and Business, Tax

On November 7, 2018, I published a blog entitled: “Opportunity Zones: Tax Deferral and Exclusion Beyond Like-Kind Exchanges”. Since then, the Treasury Department has issued over 500 pages of Final Reg...

Jennifer J. West Honored as at 2022 Virginia Lawyers Weekly Influential Women of Law

Posted on May 24, 2022

Recent Developments: (A) The “Material Adverse Change” Clause (Part II); and (B) Changes to the Small Business Bankruptcy Debt Limit

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Neil E. McCullagh in Corporate and Business, Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Litigation

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: (A) THE “MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE” CLAUSE (PART II); AND(B) CHANGES TO THE SMALL BUSINESS BANKRUPTCY DEBT LIMIT. Two years ago, as COVID began to take its toll on the economy, ...

S. Spencer Katona Elected a Shareholder of Spotts Fain

Posted on March 8, 2022

Legal Trailblazers in Honor of Black History Month

Posted on February 14, 2022

To recognize Black History Month, Spotts Fain will be spotlighting a few of the many Black attorneys who had a significant impact on equal access to justice in the United States. We hope you will join...