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Aug 13 2019

Availability of Adding Arbitration to Admission Agreements

Admission agreements are integral to defining the rights and obligations of both health care facilities and the patients they serve. For skilled nursing facilities ("SNF"), the use of arbitration provisions in those agreements has been uncertain in the recent past. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") recently issued a final rule removing this regulatory prohibition but, in doing so, also made changes to the proposed rule which has allowed these provisions since 2017. Below is a description of pre-dispute arbitration provisions, the effects of CMS's new rule, and some issues SNFs should consider in light of this new rule.

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Jun 27 2019

Wisconsin's Largest PACE Project Completed in Brown County

Wisconsin's largest commercial property assessed clean energy (PACE) project to date, the renovation of the historic Hotel Northland in Green Bay, recently closed using $8.8 million of financing provided through PACE Wisconsin and a taxable revenue bond issue by the Public Finance Authority. von Briesen served as Bond Counsel for the transaction, which provided the hotel facility energy efficiency improvements, including LED lighting, roof and wall insulation, an improved HVAC system, and water saving fixtures. The energy and water efficiency upgrades are projected to save $12.7 million on energy bills over the 20-year life of the Bonds.

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Jun 25 2019

Six Attorneys Promoted to Shareholder at von Briesen & Roper, s.c.

MILWAUKEE, WI – Randall D. Crocker, President and CEO of von Briesen & Roper, s.c., today announced the promotion of Attorneys Nicholas D. Castronovo, Andrew J. Christman, Jonathan R. Eiden, Kevin M. Fetherston, David A. Frank II and J. Ryan Maloney to Shareholders of the firm.

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Jun 18 2019

SEC Adopts New Broker-Dealer Rule, Also Affecting Investment Advisers

On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted Regulation Best Interest, the final rule governing broker-dealer conduct and their obligations to retail customers, under authority from Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The new rule will go into effect on June 30, 2020 and will increase broker-dealers' standard of conduct from existing suitability standards. The SEC considered increasing such standards to the level of a fiduciary, as was the case pursuant to the now-vacated Fiduciary Rule, but ultimately settled on intermediate standards consistent with broker-dealers' role in the investment services sector. These new standards have two tiers of obligations: General and Specific Component Obligations.

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Jun 18 2019

Location, Location, Location: A Primer on Qualified Opportunity Zones

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, new rules were established that allow taxpayers to defer capital gain from the sale of assets to unrelated persons by investing in a Qualified Opportunity Zone. Qualified Opportunity Zones are mostly high-poverty, low-income census tracts in which the federal and state governments wish to encourage investments. The governors of each state and U.S. territory submitted candidate Qualified Opportunity Zones, and the U.S. Treasury Department certified those Qualified Opportunity Zones as of July 1, 2018. In Wisconsin, for example, there are 120 Qualified Opportunity Zones.

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