Jun 27, 2024 U.S. Outbound Investment Restrictions on the Horizon – What You Need to Know By Aimen Mir Brian Reissaus Christine Laciak Colin Costello Timothy Swartz Mark Appleton Andrew Gabel +4 more... Show less On June 21, 2024, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement President Biden’s...
Mar 07, 2024 FTC Hosts Workshop on Private Equity in Healthcare By Jamillia Ferris Meghan Rissmiller Jan Rybnicek Sam Fulliton Hattie Van Metre +2 more... Show less On March 5, 2024, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) hosted a workshop “aimed at examining the role of private equity (“PE”)...
Sep 25, 2023 Private Equity in the Antitrust Spotlight By Angela Landry Emily Strickland On September 21, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a suit against a private equity firm and one of its portfolio companies,...
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,...