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Does Metaverse Real Estate Have Value?

January 14, 2022 by Phillip N. Coover, Partner

Is there really a gold rush on real estate in “the metaverse”?

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Multifamily Markets Forecast for 2022

January 14, 2022 by Aaron B. Aft, Partner

This video is an interesting and informative discussion from the team at Gray Capital covering what to expect in multifamily markets for 2022.

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Using the Municipal Bond Market to Help Create Racial Equity

January 13, 2022 by Matthew J. Miller, Partner

This Bond Markets and Racial Equity Project is such an important endeavor by the Public Finance Initiative (PFI) and the National League of Cities (NLC) that will have a lasting impact not only in the municipal bond market, but in efforts to close the racial wealth gap.

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Ohio Dispensary Lottery Nearing

January 13, 2022 by Samuel H. Porter III, Partner

In just two weeks, the long-anticipated results of the second request for dispensary applications (RFA II) in Ohio related to the new dispensary licenses will be revealed.

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Indiana Court Determines a Plaintiff Has Ten Years from the Date of Incurrence to Recover Costs for Environmental Contamination

January 13, 2022 by Louie Jorczak , Partner

If you are the owner of environmentally contaminated property in Indiana, how long do you have to bring a claim in order to compel those that caused or contributed to the contamination to pay for the costs of cleanup? The answer, says the Indiana Court of Appeals, is ten years from the incurrence of each new dollar of cleanup costs.

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2022 Deal Flow Predictions

January 13, 2022 by Diane Bell, Partner

Looking forward to seeing how long this latest M&A run will last and what interesting turns it might take.

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Private Health Insurers to Cover At-Home COVID-19 Tests

January 11, 2022 by James Banister, Partner

The Biden Administration is taking steps to try and make home COVID-19 tests more accessible by requiring health insurers to cover a certain number of tests monthly (depending on the size of a family). There is some fear from the health insurance industry that the policy may cause the price of tests to increase.

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Distressed Opportunity Bulletin - Issue 9

Ice Miller launched its Distressed Investment Group ("DIG") to identify and facilitate distressed investment opportunities and assist clients through creative and strategic acquisitions and investments in bankruptcies, in-court restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and other insolvency-related transactions.

Check out the latest issue for a list of currently available distressed investment opportunities and to learn more about our Distressed Investment Group.

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Protecting Net Operating Losses in Distressed Investments

November 23, 2021 by Matt Ehinger, Michael Ott,

The authors of this article provide an overview of the rules pertaining to net operating losses in bankruptcy.

Many businesses recognized significant net operating losses or “NOLs” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), generally allows many types of taxpayers (including individuals, estates and trusts, exempt organizations, and most C corporations) to utilize NOLs to offset taxable income in other tax years, subject to certain limitations.

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