A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator rules in favor of AARP regarding the Internet domain name aarppharmacyservices.com
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. (PRWEB) August 31, 2005 — The National Arbitration Forum announced today that a ruling has been issued in favor of AARP, a leading non-profit organization for individuals over fifty, regarding rights to the Internet domain name aarppharmacyservices.com.
AARP, represented by Melise R. Blakeslee of McDermott, Will, & Emery LLP, filed a complaint electronically with the National Arbitration Forum on July 12, 2005, asserting legal rights to the Web address bearing close resemblance to aarppharmacy.com.
Ruling in AARP’s favor, National Arbitration Forum arbitrator Sandra Franklin found that the other party, domains Ventures, registered the domain name aarppharmacyservices.com on October 18, 2003. The AARP trademark has been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1962. The disputed domain name resolves to a website featuring links that contain AARP’s mark, as well as links to various competing and non-competing commercial websites for which domains Ventures was presumably receiving referral fees.
Financing a commercial real estate transaction is no longer a simple matter. Now, there are many considerations that must be evaluated when selecting a capital provider.
Mike Myatt, executive managing director with Pacific Security Capital, explains that “in order to increase project velocity, improve operating efficiency, conserve internal capital, increase leverage and lower the overall cost of capital, it is essential that a sponsor develop an integrated capital formation strategy surrounding acquisition/refinance/development initiatives.”
Among the many things those commercial real estate borrowers in today’s marketplace need to address when seeking capital are:
- The selection of the appropriate capital provider;
- Level(s) of the capital structure to be addressed;
- Operating considerations;
- Control provisions;
- Rate, term, pricing and structure;
- Closing time frame;
- Third party requirements;
- Certainty of execution;
- Recourse provisions;
- Exit and pre-payment options;
- Inter-creditor or other multi-party agreements;
- Post closing servicing issues;
- The effect of the capital acquired on tax, balance sheet, future projects or portfolio considerations, and;
- A whole host of other value-added considerations.
Beaverton, OR, August 18, 2005 — http://www.pacificsecuritycapital.com – Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), a leading commercial real estate investment bank, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, explains why Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loans make sense for commercial real estate borrowers.
Mike Myatt, executive managing director with Pacific Security Capital, provides his insight: “It has been our experience that many commercial borrowers tend to shy away from the CMBS markets due to what amounts to a general lack of understanding of the conduit world.”
Without a doubt, conduit financing provides the best pricing available in the market for permanent loans and also affords the borrower the ability to climb the leverage curve in an aggressive fashion.
There is also a misconception that CMBS financing involves a higher degree of complexity and therefore is more difficult to work through the closing process. Pacific Security Capital closes transactions in the agency, life company and CMBS world, and of the three, Pacific Security Capital believes there is more certainty of execution with less complexity in the conduit financing world than either of the other two arenas.
Minneapolis, MN, August 18, 2005 — http://www.evolvingsol.com - Evolving Solutions, a MN-based data on-demand and storage virtualization expert, today announced how recent confirmation of Novell Platinum partnership will aid in meeting client’s open source needs.
According to leading technology analyst, Gartner, Linux will have the strongest relative growth of any server operating system during the next five years. Shipments will increase from 1.4 million units this year to 2.4 million in 2010. Revenue will grow from $6.5 billion to $11.5 billion in that period, for compound annual growth of 12.2 percent.
“Evolving Solutions is seeing astounding growth in inquires from companies of every size and across every industry, for Linux as an alternative to more costly and non-secured Microsoft windows environments,” said Jaime Gmach, Evolving Solutions CEO. “In response to this growing need, Evolving Solutions is proud to announce our recently confirmed Novell Platinum Partnership.”
Novell Platinum partnership requires SUSE LINUX expertise and a demonstrated understanding of the benefits of how Novell identity services can manage, secure mixed network environments.
Evolving Solutions demonstrates expertise in the complete architecture of, and migration to a LINUX environment. The company provides the hardware, software and services necessary for clients running existing UNIX systems or Microsoft applications to complete a Linux migration.
Commercial real estate investment banking firm, Pacific Security Capital, continues its rapid company growth with the expansion of its Investment Sales practice.
Beaverton, OR, August 11 2005 – Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), http://www.pacificsecuritycapital.com, a leading commercial real estate investment bank, is continuing to rapidly grow with the expansion of its investment sales practice.
Pacific Security Capital, which has recently recruited two new brokers, Stacey Valentic (formerly Bartel) and James Loennig, is aggressively expanding its investment sales presence worldwide.
“While current market conditions are clearly favorable to those looking to dispose of assets,” said Mike Myatt, Executive Managing Director of Pacific Security Capital, “there is no shortage of solid investment opportunities for those who are properly advised and represented in the identification, structuring and acquisition of investment grade commercial real estate.”
Pacific Security Capital provides a full offering of investment sales services to its clients:
* Acquisition Services
* Disposition Services
* Capital Markets Services
* Professional Services
Pacific Security Capital attributes its investment sales success and expansion to the high caliber of its investment brokers and their ability to offer customers a vertically integrated services approach to investment grade asset representation.
Commercial real estate lender, Pacific Security Capital, continues to expand its capital markets and investment practice by hiring new Managing Director Chief Investment Officer.
Beaverton, OR, August 4th, 2005 –http://www.pacificsecuritycapital.com - Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), a leading commercial real estate investment banking firm providing commercial real estate loans, structured finance, investment sales and advisory services, announced today that it is continuing to expand its capital markets and investment practice by hiring James R. Kean as its Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer.
Kean, who has extensive experience in capital formation and investment analysis, graduated with a B.A. in international business from Lewis and Clark College and received his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Pacific Security Capital, Kean held a variety of principal, executive level and senior finance positions for companies such as Salomon Brothers, Alloy Ventures, Weyerhaeuser, and WebMD.
“We are very pleased to have acquired the services of such a well respected capital markets and investment professional,” said Mike Myatt, Executive Managing Director of Pacific Security Capital. “In addition to managing principal initiatives and balance sheet investments, James will also support the investment goals of our institutional clients.”
Register for the September 21st, 2pm ET, Webcast “Five critical tips on how to avoid design constraints and get the most out of your thermal component supplier” sponsored by Minco and Machine Design magazine at http://www.machinedesign.com/md/minco
Minneapolis, MN, August 1, 2005 -– Minco, (www.Minco.com) a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical thermal applications, today announced that, in response to growing client desire to foster strong relationships with Minco as a premier thermal component supplier, it will partner with Machine Design Magazine to conduct a one-hour educational Webcast.
The Webcast, scheduled for 1 p.m. Central/2 p.m. Eastern on September 21 is entitled, “Five critical tips on how to avoid design constraints and get the most out of your thermal component supplier”. Registrations are taking place at: http://www.machinedesign.com/md/minco
“For the OEM design engineer, there is no crystal ball foretelling thermal design challenges that may develop into project delays and added costs,” said Brian Williams, Minco Marketing Manager. “The goal of our ‘Five Critical Tips’ Webcast is to bring design and manufacture best practices, developed through years of hands-on Minco experience, to engineers in order to help them avoid redesign mid-development.”
Pacific Security Capital, a leading commercial real estate investment bank, addresses the impact of rising interest rates on commercial real estate loans.
Beaverton, OR, August 1, 2005 – http://www.pacificsecuritycapital.com – Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), a leading commercial real estate investment bank, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, addresses the impact rising interest rates could have on commercial real estate loans and the commercial real estate market overall.
There has been no shortage of conversation surrounding the topic of rising interest rates in the commercial capital markets over the last two years. Mike Myatt, Executive Managing Director of Pacific Security Capital explains that “the reason for all the column fodder is that interest rate movement has a direct impact on the state of capital markets supply and pricing and can have a very real impact on the overall commercial real estate market.”
As a baseline for a deeper analysis it is useful to have a macro-economic understanding of what happens to property level supply and demand drivers and the resultant impact on Net Operating Income (NOI) in a rising interest rate environment. As a general economic principal when interest rates rise the cost of new construction increases thereby slowing the number of construction starts and depleting new supply of product coming online. This scenario in turn causes an increase in overall market absorption rates and creates a “landlord’s market” environment.
