Rimon Partner, Marc Kaufman, to speak at event: Avoiding the Emerging Patent Risk in Blockchain Ecosystems

An intellectual property protection strategy is critical to the success of blockchain projects. Learn more about the options at this event. About this Event An intellectual property (IP) protection strategy is critical to the success of blockchain projects. The Open Source and decentralized nature of blockchain implementations does not insulate blockchain innovators from risk of…

Rimon Partner Marc Kaufman wins the 2020 Global Law Experts Award: FinTech Sector IP Lawyer of the Year in Washington D.C.

Rimon Partner and Co-founder of the Blockchain IP Council, Marc Kaufman, wins the Global Law Experts (GLE) 2020 award: FinTech Sector IP Lawyer of the Year in Washington D.C.for 2020 for the second year in a row. During the recommendations stage, GLE receives over 120,000 responses from business directors, in-house legal counsel, independent law firms, high net-worth individuals, bar associations, visitors…

Rimon Partner Marc Kaufman quoted in Financial Times article regarding the Peoples Bank of China digital currency

Rimon Partner and Co-founder of the Blockchain IP Council, Marc Kaufman, recently provided his thoughts relating to patents on digital currency sought by the People’s Bank of China. “Virtually all of these patent applications relate to integrating a system of digital currency into the existing banking infrastructure” Read the Financial Times article here. Marc Kaufman concentrates…

Rimon Law welcomes International Corporate Attorney Judy Deng as Partner in its Menlo Park office

Menlo Park, CA – Rimon continues to strengthen its international reach by welcoming International Corporate attorney Judy Deng as Partner in its Menlo Park Office. Ms. Deng joins Rimon from Davis Wright Tremaine, where she was a Partner in its San Francisco office. Ms. Deng practices corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on the representation of international social networking,…

Rimon Partner Mark Diamond wins the 2020 Global Law Experts Award: Private Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year in California

Rimon Investment Management Group Partner Mark Diamond wins the Global Law Experts (GLE) 2020 award: Private Investment Funds Lawyer of the Year in California for 2020 for the second year in a row. During the recommendations stage, GLE receives over 120,000 responses from business directors, in-house legal counsel, independent law firms, high net-worth individuals, bar associations, visitors to the GLE website…

OCC and FDIC Propose CRA Modernization Regulations

On December 12, 2019, the FDIC and OCC issued their long-awaited proposed regulations to Modernize the Community Reinvestment Act (the “Proposed Regulations”). The more complete version of the Proposed Regulations was published in the Federal Register on January 9, 2020, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-01-09/pdf/2019-27940.pdf. Prior to their issuance, the OCC engaged in outreach to CRA stakeholders that identified an…

Litigation Finance – A Modest Proposal

Many lawyers have heard the one about the consultation with a new client.  Lawyer: “You have a pretty good case.  How much justice can you afford?”  It’s funny but it also distills a troubling reality – high stakes commercial claims are costlier to assert and the likelihood of success more uncertain than ever; clients are…

IRS guidance on virtual currency transactions

The last word taxpayers engaging in virtual currency transactions heard from the IRS was in 2014 in Notice 2014-21. Please review our commentary on the notice here. Now, five years later, the IRS has issued two new pieces of guidance for taxpayers in this area in the form of Revenue Ruling 2019-24 and a set of questions…

Rimon Law Welcomes Top Capital Markets Partner Andrew Reilly as head of new Sydney Office

Reilly has been a leader in representing Australian and New Zealand companies in accessing the US Capital Markets for the past 20 years  Opening its first office in Australia, leading international law firm Rimon Law welcomes Capital Markets attorney Andrew Reilly, who advises Australian and New Zealand companies on accessing the US and other international capital markets, as a Partner in its new Sydney office. Rimon’s Sydney office, along with the opening of two offices this month in Berlin and…