Managing a licensing office in a post-COVID-19 world presents unprecedented challenges. While there are numerous issues confronting licensing offices, there are several potential responses and strategies to help mitigate the damaging effects while still maximizing licensing revenue and interactions with licensees and business partners. Confronting the Issues The e [...]

COVID-19 has opened up the world of remote working and the number of remote workers has jumped in recent months. While state and local orders continue to require that certain employees work remotely or telecommute during the pandemic, employers may now see an increase from employees working remotely on an extended basis. This is due to the numerous benefits (such as r [...]

Originally published in HLB's Insights. Value creation in any business is rooted in growth. All other things being equal, higher-growth businesses enjoy greater transaction multiples (and, consequently, value) than do companies with lower growth rates. Growth in a business comes from five different sources: Expanding the product set offeredReaching more customers [...]

Over the past several months, as a direct consequence of stay-at-home orders and related business shutdowns, U.S. retailers and food industry players have been battling to ensure that food supply chains remain robust in the light of unprecedented demand shifts impacting both traditional grocery retailers and foodservice, as well as emerging ecommerce channels. Physica [...]

Originally published in the Los Angeles Business Journal A diverse workforce has numerous advantages, such as increased profitability, higher employee engagement and a boost to overall innovation. However, many companies may not know how to recruit a diverse workforce. This is where targeted hiring practices can help. To achieve diversity, companies must reduce t [...]

There are several new tax-related propositions that Californians should be aware of that will be on the ballot this November:Proposition 15 (property tax related) is related to periodic reassessment of commercial property to market value and has a significant impact to property holders over $3 million.Proposition 19 (property tax related) proposes a modification to th [...]

GHJ Partner Ilan Haimoff talks with Randy Hua, senior vice president of Bank of America’s Entertainment Industry Group and Christopher Spicer, partner and leader of the Entertainment and Media Practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Find out more about the legal and financing challenges production companies face during this public health crisis and what they c [...]

Tom Barry’s new blog series, “OWNING the New Normal: Innovators creating the way forward,” will focus on business leaders exploring the current and evolving business environment. The discussion will revolve around recognizing that leaders must innovate and pivot to “own” the future and move forward. Every industry has been changed by COVID-19. Deal making is no exce [...]

It is clear that 2020 has changed much of what we knew about the modern workplace. However, one thing definitely has not changed: diversity and inclusion makes companies better. “Better” is a broad term but an intentional one because of just how many measures companies with diverse teams improve upon compared to their peers that lack diversity. They are more profita [...]

One would be hard pressed to find one business that has not been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While several businesses have felt challenged in having to operate under constraints that were beyond what they could effectively manage, there were many other businesses that were able to pivot quickly to not only address those constraints but to position themselves in [...]