Mergers & Acquisitions

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News & Analysis as of May 23, 2013

Barney Frank Takes Advantage of GOP Confusion Over SEC-CFTC Merger

by Felix Shipkevich | Shipkevich PLLC on 12/3/2012

Two weeks ago we wrote about the growing call for an SEC-CFTC merger from both sides of the aisle. Now, Barney Frank is making one last push for the merger before his upcoming retirement....more

SB 804 Requires California Local Health Care Districts To Obtain Fair Market Value Appraisals In Certain Asset Transfers

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/5/2012

New amendments to California’s local health care district law require districts to obtain a fair market value appraisal if the district transfers fifty percent or more of its assets (in sum or by increment) to one or more...more

Governor Brown Submits Agency M&A Proposal

by Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 4/3/2012

Article V, Section 6 of the California Constitution provides that the legislature may provide by statute for the Governor to “assign and reorganize functions among executive officers and agencies and their employees, other...more

Merger Enforcement Two Years Later

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/5/2011

Two years into the Obama Administration, we have enough of a record on merger enforcement to pause and consider whether anything much has changed, and what this record has to say about the likely course of enforcement in the...more

What’s Driving the US Antitrust Agencies?

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 2/24/2011

As antitrust veterans know, no matter how much a new administration may want to change how antitrust is enforced, the bulk of the agencies’ enforcement agenda remains relatively constant from one administration to the next....more