Stephen Brown

Mar 12, 2024 | lexology.com | Sergio A. Urias |Amy Wollensack |Anna K. Abram |Shariff Barakat |Jesse Betts |Laura Black | +20 more

The year 2023 will be remembered as a challenging year for private equity, with complexities to navigate on many fronts. Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to navigate, portfolio companies required additional attention, fundraising was not easy and regulators continued to scale up their scrutiny of the industry and its transactions.

Jul 31, 2023 | financialexecutives.org | Stephen Brown

Heightened stakeholder focus  Investors and other corporate stakeholders have long called for increased board diversity. Central to their argument is the belief that board deliberations benefit from issue-spotting and insights when there are diverse perspectives in the room.

Jun 15, 2023 | charlottecounty.floridaweekly.com | Stephen Brown

Question: We have had a Cassia tree in our community for a few years and it is very susceptible to wind. I received information that the Senna polyphylla to be more wind tolerant than the S. surattensis. Have you found this to be true and do you have any information you can share with me on it? — ShannonAnswer: The two species you have mentioned are Cassias not Sennas. Cassias are usually much larger trees than most Sennas.

Jun 7, 2023 | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Stephen Brown

Question: We have had a Cassia tree in our community for a few years and it is very susceptible to wind. I received information that the Senna polyphylla to be more wind tolerant than the S. surattensis. Have you found this to be true and do you have any information you can share with me on it? — Shannon Answer: The two species you have mentioned are Cassias not Sennas. Cassias are usually much larger trees than most Sennas.

Apr 5, 2023 | lexology.com | Stephen Brown

BackgroundIt is common knowledge in the finance industry that lenders placing liens on collateral (other than on land) generally must file a UCC-1 financing statement. Lenders file mortgages, of course, when the collateral is land. It is less well understood, however, that factors, merchant cash advancers (“MCAs”), and other purchasers of accounts receivable also must file UCC-1 financing statements to “perfect” their ownership interest in the accounts that they buy.