AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law Podcast - Episode 4: Preparing for a Transaction? What Emerging Growth Companies Need to Know
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.
Please join Williams Mullen partners Larry Parker and Will Halliday as they discuss the proxy solicitation process in public company M&A. Companies with a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of...more
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the key developments around reforming the UK capital markets regime following Lord Hill’s UK Listings Review, launched on 19 November 2020 as part of the UK...more
The California General Corporation Law recognizes three subsets of a "reorganization" - a "merger reorganization", an "exchange reorganization", or "sale-of-assets reorganization". Cal. Corp. Code § 181. Chapter 11 of the...more
In December 2020, the NYSE proposed to relax the requirements for shareholder approval of related-party equity issuances and bring them into closer alignment with the comparable Nasdaq rules by amending Sections 312.03,...more
The NYSE is proposing to relax the requirements for shareholder approval of related-party equity issuances and bring them closer into alignment with the comparable Nasdaq rules. The proposal, which would amend Sections...more
We highlight the responses companies are taking in light of the current environment and the arguments some buyers are making to terminate transactions. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a steep decline in US M&A activity in...more
This guide summarizes certain considerations for a non-US acquirer considering an acquisition of a publicly traded US-based company in a negotiated (i.e., friendly) transaction. In addition to market dynamics and business...more
This update provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In particular,...more
There have been significant recent developments in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation of foreign private issuers, (FPIs) including changes that impact the annual report on Form 20-F for fiscal year 2019....more
Q: What are the key considerations related to any deal structure? There are four: tax effects, transfer of liability, third party consents, and shareholder approval. Tax effects from transactions can be complex and are...more
California, like Delaware and other states, authorizes a short-form merger procedure. Essentially, this involves a merger of a subsidiary into its parent or vice versa. Under California's statute, the parent corporation must...more
In a decision with potentially far-reaching implications for private equity sponsors and other controlling stockholders, the Delaware Court of Chancery expanded the potential for liability for foreign-based controllers by...more
The Delaware courts issued a number of significant decisions in 2018 that are likely to have ripple effects throughout 2019. Among them were a series of cases that further developed the parameters of the Corwin and MFW...more
Yesterday's post delved into the difference between a "share exchange tender offer" (Section 183.5) and an "exchange reorganization" (Section 181(b)) under the California General Corporation Law. Briefly, both involve the...more
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have experienced a renewed popularity over the past couple of years due to favorable capital markets conditions. A SPAC is a publicly traded acquisition and investment vehicle...more
Tokyo Stock Exchange Announces Revisions to Corporate Governance Code - On June 1, 2018, the Tokyo Stock Exchange ("TSE") announced revisions ("Revisions") to the Corporate Governance Code ("CG Code"). The CG Code...more
The Cirillo Family Trust v. Moezinia, C.A. 10116-CB (Del. Ch. July 11, 2018) - This is an interesting decision for three reasons. First, it gives a good discussion of when defective corporate acts can be cured under...more
The Predicament - One challenge encountered in M&A deals is how to bind all shareholders of the target company to all deal terms. For private companies with few shareholders, this is not much of a challenge. However,...more
In The Huff Energy Fund, L.P. v. Gershen, C.A. No. 11116-VCS (Del. Ch. Sept. 29, 2016), the Delaware Court of Chancery dealt with the issue of whether a company’s decision, approved by its board of directors and its...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
Creative acquisition strategies are offering both buyers and targets additional opportunities to grow their businesses through M&A. One strategy that we are seeing parties use is the “option to acquire” structure, which...more
The SEC’s Investor Advocate has issued a letter to Nasdaq concerning Nasdaq’s Solicitation of Comments regarding certain Nasdaq shareholder approval rules. The comments largely echo the comments of the SEC’s Investor Advisory...more
The SEC has posted new CDIs addressing the issue of “unbundling” of proxy proposals under Rule 14a-4(a)(3), which requires that the form of proxy “identify clearly and impartially each separate matter intended to be acted...more
The Delaware Supreme Court recently issued an opinion, captioned Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC, that sheds further light on when a stockholder owning less than 50% of the voting power of a company may be deemed a...more
This guide summarizes certain important considerations for acquiring a publicly traded US-based target corporation through a negotiated (i.e. “non-hostile”) tender offer, exchange offer or merger. US public companies are...more