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 [...]

For my birthday, I received one of the best gifts I have ever gotten, a subscription to MasterClass. MasterClass is an online education platform of virtual classes that are taught by experts in various field ranging from film and television to writing to culinary arts. With the receipt of this gift right at the beginning of the COVID closures, I have utilized this pla [...]

The COVID Pilot by the California Employment Training Panel (ETP) is designed to rapidly support employers and workers in the food supply chain and healthcare industries that have an urgent need to train newly hired staff. Potential Benefits Reimbursement for up to four hours of training costs associated with hiring new employees. Such employees may be hired up to [...]

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”) introduced several tax provisions and made significant changes to existing tax law. One major provision is section 1061[1], which is commonly referred as the Carried Interest Legislation. Section 1061 intends to prevent certain taxpayers from paying taxes at the lower long-term capital gain tax rates by utilizing various part [...]

GHJ Entertainment Expert Anita Wu talks with Entertainment Lawyer Ezra Doner of Doner Law on the recent Bull Durham fraud case and other similar investment scams. Find out about the ongoing litigation, different types of scams and predicted ruling in this case in GHJ’s Media Clips podcast. This podcast is a supplement to a recent Client Alert published by Doner Law [...]

Companies across the food supply chain have been working hard to face the unique challenges that have come to fruition in the COVID-19 era. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food at-home (which includes groceries) grew by 2.6 percent from March to April 2020, noting this was the largest monthly increase [...]

Originally published in HLB Insights The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges to the global economy, pausing much of the activity across the world. After a long spell of record-high M&A activity over the past decade, deal-making was brought to a screeching halt as the pandemic shock diffused throughout the world economy. What was once expected [...]

Originally published in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The food and beverage industry as a whole is unique in many ways — and here in Los Angeles, where we have some of the best dining and food-for-purchase options in the nation, there’s perhaps an even more finely tuned set of rules for success. Stir in this year’s uncharted obstacles (primarily the COVID-19 pand [...]