Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
What Goes On Inside Your Boardroom? Investors Want To Know
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 27: The Importance of Employment Counsel in Corporate Transactions with Laura Mallory and Ashley Parr of Maynard Nexsen
Podcast - Navigating M&A Due Diligence: Safeguarding Security Clearances
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Podcast: Key Changes in Finalized Antitrust Merger Guidelines – Diagnosing Health Care
The Changing Landscape of State AG Antitrust Enforcement — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Public M&A Day in Frankfurt
Fierce Competition Podcast | Takeaways From the Illumina-Grail Merger Challenge Saga
Hospital M&A Trends & Strategic Considerations for 2024
Hunting Outsized Returns with Jason Caplain of Bull City Venture Partners
Navigating Reps and Warranties Insurance in 2024: Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas Ahead?
M&A Compliance Due Diligence
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - AI Considerations in M&A Transactions and Contract Drafting
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 7: Trans-Pacific Business: Australia and the U.S. - Part 1
Business Better Podcast Episode: Investing in the New Mainstream Economy - A Conversation with Palladium Equity Partners
Podcast - La Prima por Fusión
One IMS: Acquisition Stories | Trial Division of Precise, Inc.
What You Need to Know About the New FTC and DOJ HSR Changes
On August 5, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a rare[1] gun jumping[2] civil lawsuit and proposed settlement in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Legends...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on May 30, 2024, approved a settled final judgment against technology company Arista Networks' former chairman and CEO, Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim based on...more
The FTC’s Amgen/Horizon Lawsuit Ends With a Whimper - We covered the FTC’s investigation into (and litigation challenging) Amgen’s $28.3 billion acquisition of rare disease specialist Horizon Therapeutics in our Q1 and...more
Long a feature of directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance policies, the so-called “Bump-Up” Exclusion has gotten significant attention over the last few years. Because of the recent escalation in securities...more
A recent enforcement action against two affiliated wealth management businesses raises concerns over whether and how other registered investment advisers will be subject to sanctions for issues that arise in the ordinary...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), and the new proposed merger guidelines have all called out private equity transactions for particular scrutiny. The FTC just...more
In Towers Watson & Co v. National Union Fire Insurance Company, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 192480 (E.D. Va. Oct. 5, 2021), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently held that the settlements reached in...more
IRC completes acquisition of kidney care provider ARA - In Oct., it was revealed that Franklin, Tenn.-based Innovative Renal Care (IRC), an affiliate of equity firm Nautic Partners, would purchase American Renal...more
All eyes were on health care in 2020, as the industry faced unprecedented challenges presented by the global coronavirus pandemic. Stories and images of overburdened frontline health care workers dominated the news cycle...more
Possible settlement in class action involving ARA and stockholders - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey will consider a proposed settlement of class action case involving individuals who purchased...more
Mere months after Airbus entered into a record-breaking, nearly $4 billion resolution with the U.S., U.K., and France to settle foreign bribery allegations, the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) moved on July 30, 2020, to...more
IMPACT OF EQUIFAX, FACEBOOK SETTLEMENTS - Health care industry boards should give close attention to the governance implications of recent privacy settlements entered into by Equifax and Facebook. Their unique facts...more
Today, I want to explore the differences in two types of monitorships; a post-resolution monitorship and a pre-settlement monitorship. I am joined in this exploration by Eric R. Feldman, Senior Vice President and Managing...more
In Gordon v. Verizon Communications, Inc., No. 653084/13, 2017 WL 442871 (N.Y. App. Div. Feb. 2, 2017), the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department (the “First Department”),...more
On February 2, 2017, the Appellate Division, First Department issued a unanimous decision in Gordon v. Verizon Communications, Inc., No. 653084/13, 2017 BL 31251 (1st Dep’t Feb. 2, 2017) that may have significant consequences...more
On October 5, 2016, Skadden hosted its Fourth Annual Seminar for Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device Companies. The seminar focused on the current and developing challenges facing such companies and included...more
Last week, in an opinion authored by Judge Richard Posner, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected a proposed class-action settlement arising from Walgreen Co.’s acquisition of the Swiss-based pharmacy...more
Cornerstone Research recently released its 2016 midyear assessment of federal securities class-actions filings. The report finds an increase in filings in the first half of 2016, with particular increases in M&A filings,...more
Section 546(e) of the bankruptcy code prohibits a bankruptcy trustee from avoiding “settlement payment[s]”, or payments “made in connection with a securities contract,” that are “made by or to (or for the benefit of)”...more
On July 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) announced that it reached a settlement with ValueAct, and its related companies (ValueAct), of alleged violations of the...more
The Department of Justice announced late last month that pharmaceutical manufacturers Wyeth and Pfizer would pay $784 million to resolve a False Claims Act investigation and qui tam lawsuit arising from Wyeth’s failure to...more
Most employers already know that violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) has serious consequences, including significant fines. Those potential fines just got even heavier. On February 18, 2016, the U.S....more
Recently, in Davidson v. Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 14714 (11th Cir. Aug. 21, 2015), the 11th Circuit held that banks do not qualify as “debt collectors” under the Federal Debt Collection Practices Act...more
On August 22, 2013, the FTC announced a proposed settlement in its much-publicized case against one of the largest hospital systems in Southwest Georgia, and the proposed settlement is remarkable for what it will not do—it...more