If a debtor files bankruptcy, it does not necessarily mean a creditor will be left holding the bag. Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Pavla Vitkova of Barakat + Bossa PLLC provide an in-depth guide of how creditors may be able to preclude a debtor’s debt from being discharged in bankruptcy.Read More

With Florida the latest state to enact commercial finance disclosure legislation, Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Natalie Chaiken of Barakat + Bossa PLLC provide a detailed look at the requirements and definitions of the new law, as well as how it compares to previously enacted statutes.Read More

Initially, the authors planned this article to be an illustrative analysis of Eleventh Circuit precedent on using the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) as a basis for federal question jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (the Federal Question Statute). As of the date of this article, however, neither the...Read More

Sometimes a typo can be more than a benign mistake. Jocelyne A. Macelloni and Matthew Akiba of Barakat + Bossa PLLC explain how misspelling a company’s name can have serious consequences when filing a UCC financing statement in Florida and other jurisdictions.Read More

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that people lost $54 million to phishing schemes in 2020. Phishing attacks usually originate from a malicious email that victims receive effectively convincing them to visit a fraudulent website where they are asked to enter sensitive information.Read More

"Bankruptcy itself is a form of alternative dispute resolution.” One would think that alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), more specifically, mediation, would be regularly employed by all Bankruptcy courts given the cost and time constraints imposed on debtors who have resorted to Bankruptcy in the first place. Indeed, the main goal of a Chapter 7 proceeding...Read More

Florida has one of the largest communities of real estate brokers and sales agents in the nation, which is unsurprising given the popularity of Florida’s real estate market.Read More

You're invited to join a free webinar on Thursday, September 24th by the Italian American Chamber of Commerce and "Made in Vicenza" featuring B2B's Giacomo Bossa and Alberto Polimeni who will present a talk on "Exporting to the USARead More

As a general principle, corporations are deemed as legal entities separate from their shareholders, officers, and directors. This implicates not only that corporations have legal rights and liabilities distinct from their shareholders or directors, but also that the shareholders and directors are not liable for corporate obligations.Read More

46th President of the United States Joseph R. Biden recently passed an Executive Order on July 9, 2021 titled “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The goal of this Executive Order is “to enforce the antitrust laws to combat the excessive concentration of industry, the abuses of market power, and the harmful...Read More