Mergers & Acquisitions Updates – May 22, 2012

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 5/21/2012

Originally published in Law360, New York (May 18, 2012, 4:38 PM ET) Health care transactions present unique due diligence challenges. The buyer must evaluate the seller’s compliance policies and procedures, arrangements...more

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/21/2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the argument of a dissenting shareholder in a freezout merger that provisions of Wisconsin’s corporate law were binding contractually on a company’s founders and its...more

by Patton Boggs LLP on 5/18/2012

Qatar does not have a single, codified, source of property law. Instead, a collection of laws, ministerial decrees and resolutions, dating back to 1963, constitute the country’s jurisprudence on the subject. The general rule...more

by Thomas Fox on 5/18/2012

A review of the requirements for the facilitation payment exception under the FCPA....more

by Thomas Fox on 5/18/2012

Less than three months after he ruled against Major League Baseball (MLB) in the Ryan Braun suspension, Arbitrator Shyman Das was fired by MLB. He had been an approved arbitrator under the MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement...more

by Ropes & Gray LLP on 5/17/2012

A recent opinion regarding the enforcement of certain provisions commonly found in confidentiality agreements in the context of a hostile takeover provides important guidance on the drafting process of such agreements. In...more

by Fenwick & West LLP on 5/16/2012

The Delaware Chancery Court recently issued an opinion finding that Martin Marietta violated two confidentiality agreements when it launched a hostile take-over bid for Vulcan Materials. While neither agreement included an...more

by Thomas Fox on 5/16/2012

One of area that is an important part of a minimum best practices compliance program under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) or the UK Bribery Act is risk assessment. Indeed in a recent video podcast on the site...more