15 Sep, 2022 Illumina/Grail: A Tale of Transatlantic Entropy By Thomas Lübbig Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Laura Onken Lauren Vaca Amaryllis Müller Karen Slaney +3 more... Show less This isn’t the first time we’ve written about this US-focused transaction in the innovative markets for next generation gene sequencing...
27 Jun, 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...
14 Apr, 2021 Comparing the EU’s Representative Actions Directive to US class action procedures By Linda Martin Henry Hutten This fifth blog in our series examining the EU Representative Actions Directive ("the Directive") considers how lawsuits proceeding...
21 Aug, 2020 How COVID-19 may change long-term aviation outlook By Matthew Herman Amna Arshad COVID-19 has carved a wide swathe through the world economy, cutting a particularly harsh path through sectors such as retail, hotel and...
21 May, 2020 Impact of COVID-19 on the R&W insurance market By Paul Tiger Paul Humphreys Tomas Rua The impact of COVID-19 on M&A activity in global markets has predictably had knock-on effects on global R&W insurance markets with deal...
14 May, 2020 Tougher controls for foreign investment – the new normal By Aimen Mir We here at Freshfields are conscious that you are receiving a significant amount of COVID-19 related materials at present, but we wanted...
14 May, 2020 An overview for boards on the future of forum-selection clauses By Pamela Marcogliese Ethan Klingsberg Valerie Ford Jacob Meredith Kotler Scott Eisman Lauren Kaplin +3 more... Show less On March 18, 2020, the Delaware Supreme Court decided Salzberg v. Sciabacucchi[1], rejecting a challenge to the validity of federal-forum...
11 May, 2020 Balancing travelers’ right to refunds and airlines’ right to survival in the age of COVID-19 By Amna Arshad Charlie Beller Meredith Mommers Ticket refunds, normally a very clear-cut area of regulation, have become a lightning rod issue for air carriers, consumers and...
10 May, 2020 Recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision sustains another Caremark claim at the pleading stage By Meredith Kotler Pamela Marcogliese Marques Tracy After decades of routinely dismissing such claims, Vice Chancellor Laster’s recent 41-page decision in Hughes v. Hu represents the third...
08 May, 2020 NYSE and Nasdaq provide temporary relief from shareholder approval requirements for certain capital-raising transactions By Michael Levitt Andrea Basham Brian Lewis Vinita Sithapathy Alexander Canahuate +2 more... Show less Editor's note: this post has been updated on May 18, 2020 to include new rule exceptions adopted late last week by the NYSE. In...
07 May, 2020 Disclosures in the time of corona: avoiding liability under the securities laws during a global pandemic By Pamela Marcogliese Meredith Kotler Valerie Ford Jacob Elizabeth Bieber Scott Eisman Andrea Basham +3 more... Show less As issuers work to prepare their quarterly securities filings during the COVID-19 pandemic, including endeavoring to heed the SEC’s...
28 Apr, 2020 New York state courts still not accepting nonessential lawsuits By Timothy Harkness The chief administrator of the New York state courts has said it would be a serious mistake to open up the state courts to the torrent of...