Aug 11, 2023 President Biden Issues Outbound Investment Restrictions Executive Order – Small Yard, High Fence? By Aimen Mir Christine Laciak Colin Costello Timothy Swartz Mark Appleton +2 more... Show less On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, Addressing United States Investments in Certain National...
Oct 25, 2022 Antitrust Scrutiny Intensifies for Private Equity By Jan Rybnicek Meytal McCoy Alastair Chapman Paul van den Berg Laurent Bougard Felix Roscam Abbing +3 more... Show less Led by antitrust officials in the US appointed by President Biden, authorities around the world have turned a critical eye towards...
Jun 27, 2022 8th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the over 200 in-person and several hundred virtual attendees at the 8th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and the...
Mar 29, 2021 SEC Zeroes In on SPACs, Opening an Informal Investigation Into the Market’s Latest Trend By Michael Levitt Kimberly Zelnick Hannah Khalifeh As we have previously shared, market interest in special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) has been soaring this past year, with more...
Mar 22, 2021 Takeaways from the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and Governance By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the hundreds of attendees, as well as the speakers and panelists, at the 7th Annual Berkeley Spring Forum on M&A and...
Mar 11, 2021 Distressed businesses can be good targets for SPACs By Madlyn Primoff Michael Levitt Tuna fish and spaghetti with marinara sauce? Perhaps not the first thing we think of when presented with tuna or tomato sauce, but it...
Jan 31, 2021 Troubling signs from recent M&A case law: Forgetful gatekeepers, targeted executives, and poor record building By Ethan Klingsberg Victor Ma Have we forgotten the lessons of the Delaware cases that arose from the heyday of big-ticket LBOs by private equity preceding the...
Sep 01, 2020 Experiencing distress: M&A opportunities and challenges in the COVID era By Paul Humphreys Scott Talmadge Following the global implementation of stay-at-home orders in response to the novel coronavirus, businesses suffered unprecedented...
Jul 30, 2020 Delaware Chancery Court rules that pre-closing attorney client privilege over deal related communications stays with sellers in an asset purchase By Doru Gavril David Livshiz Scott Eisman Paul Humphreys Umer Ali +2 more... Show less The Delaware Court of Chancery (Vice Chancellor Zurn) recently held in DLO Enterprises, Inc. v. Innovative Chemical Products Group, LLC,...
Jul 02, 2020 Making sense of ESG investment capital By Jerome Ranawake It can be challenging for companies to understand how investors quantify the value of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) returns...
Jun 18, 2020 Court of Chancery denies motion to dismiss and pleading stage application of MFW safe harbor By Meredith Kotler Paul Tiger Marques Tracy In a 94-page opinion issued last Thursday, Vice Chancellor Laster denied defendants’ motion to dismiss in In re Dell Technologies Inc....
Jun 10, 2020 Three avenues for US distressed M&A By Mark Liscio Madlyn Primoff Scott Talmadge Compared to the 2007-08 financial crisis, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to produce a broader array of asset classes that become available...