Mergers

Deed of Trust Security Prevents Merger of Estates - Legal Doctrine of Merger of Real Property Estates Will Not Defeat the...

by Delmar G. Williams | Best Best & Krieger LLP on 5/21/2013

A California Appellate Court recently determined that a lender taking a security interest in both California real property and an easement benefiting such real property by recording a deed of trust does not lose its security...more

National Marine Fisheries Service Proposes A Merger Of Its West Coast Regions

by Katrina Diaz | Nossaman LLP on 5/2/2013

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently proposed merging its Southwest and Northwest administrative regions, which would result in a savings of $3 million annually in management costs. NMFS is a component of the...more

Investigation of Merger of PROLOR Biotech and OPKO Health FAQ

by Wohl & Fruchter LLP on 4/29/2013

We are investigating the proposed merger of PROLOR Biotech, Inc. (PROLOR) (NYSE: PBTH) with OPKO Health, Inc. (OPKO). As set forth in our FAQ, our investigation concerns whether approval of the transaction was improperly...more

Hospital-Physician Mergers: Practical Issues and Steps to Minimize Antitrust Risk

by William Berlin | Ober|Kaler on 4/26/2013

Recently, hospitals have been actively acquiring primary care and specialty physician groups, resulting in the employment of those physicians. This trend has occurred largely in response to reimbursement changes and other...more

MOFCOM Opens Public Consultation on Detailed Merger Remedies Proposals

by Siobhan Kahmann, Hai-Ching Yang | K&L Gates LLP on 4/19/2013

I. Introduction - Since the inception of China’s Anti-monopoly Law in 2008, the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”), the government authority responsible for merger review, has taken an active role in analyzing and...more

NEW CASE ALERT: California Affirms Equitable Exceptions To The “Merger Doctrine"

by Miller Starr Regalia on 4/18/2013

The merger doctrine is not absolute and its application will depend upon the equities and the parties’ intentions, the California Court of Appeal recently held in Hamilton Court, LLC v. East Olympic, L.P., 2013 WL 1613269...more

China’s Merger Control Rules Changing: MOFCOM Publishes New Draft Regulations on Remedies and Simple Cases

by Henry Chen, Frank Schoneveld | McDermott Will & Emery on 4/17/2013

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently issued two new draft regulations. The first provides a wider range of potential remedies to obtain the clearance of a concentration (e.g., a merger, acquisition, joint venture, etc.);...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: European Commission clears the acquisition of TNK-BP by Rosneft

by King & Spalding on 4/16/2013

The European Commission (“Commission”) has approved without conditions Rosneft’s US$ 54.8 billion acquisition of TNK-BP. The Commission’s 8 March approval came two months after the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”)...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: EU Competition Law and Joint Sales in LNG

by King & Spalding on 4/16/2013

Liberalization of the EU natural gas sector began almost two decades ago. Since then, the European Commission (the “Commission”) has used various mechanisms to facilitate market opening including competition law enforcement,...more

Life Science Financing Survey - Full Year 2012

by Barry J. Kramer, Michael J. Patrick, Matthew Rossiter | Fenwick & West LLP on 4/16/2013

In this Survey: - Overview of Fenwick & West Results - Analysis of Industry Data - Detailed Fenwick & West Results: Valuation - Detailed Fenwick & West Results: Financing Terms -...more

New Jersey Amends Its Corporate Laws to Create a More Business-Friendly Climate

by Michael Rowan, Craig Zappetti | Saul Ewing LLP on 4/4/2013

On April 1, 2013, Governor Chris Christie signed into law a three-bill package designed to make New Jersey businesses more competitive in the global marketplace, attract new businesses to New Jersey, and make New Jersey law...more

Supreme Court Hands FTC Victory on State Action Immunity

by Jessica Anthony, Leslie John, Jason Leckerman | Ballard Spahr LLP on 2/22/2013

In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court this week tightened the standard for state action immunity under federal antitrust laws in a case involving a hospital merger. This decision arguably tightens the reins on the...more

Placing Limits on the State Action Doctrine, the Supreme Court Subjects Local Government Hospitals to Scrutiny under the Antitrust...

by Ryan Blaney, Monte Dube, Helene Jaffe, Alan Kusinitz, Andrew Wellin, Richard Zall | Proskauer Rose LLP on 2/22/2013

Recent major regulatory and technological developments have brought forth historic changes to the health care market. Health care providers have responded to these developments in several ways. One such mechanism, hospital...more

FTC Proposes Amendments To The Hart-Scott-Rodino Rules Regarding Withdrawal Of A Premerger Notification Filing

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/11/2013

On February 1, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register to amend the Rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 regarding the...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: Competition Law and the Energy Sector – EU, UK, and Beyond; Looking Ahead to 2013

by King & Spalding on 2/7/2013

Since it is early in 2013 (according to the Gregorian calendar), this competition law update considers possible competition law developments in the year ahead. Rather than a “Janus” approach of rounding up last year, it...more

DOJ Assistant Attorney General William Baer’s First Merger Challenge Confirms Continued Aggressive Merger Enforcement by Antitrust...

by Christi Braun, Robert G. Kidwell, Helen Kim, Farrah Short, Bruce D. Sokler, Shoshana S. Speiser | Mintz Levin - Antitrust on 2/5/2013

On January 31, 2013, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed its first lawsuit challenging a merger under newly sworn-in Assistant Attorney General, William J. Baer. Both the facts and circumstances...more

Amending California's dissenters' rights statute

by Brandon Parris | Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/29/2013

Originally published in the Daily Journal on December 21, 2012. On Sept. 23 Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1680 into law. AB 1680 amends California's dissenters' rights statute by (i) eliminating dissenters rights...more

Burn Before Reading: Hot Documents and Antitrust Claims

by Lee Simowitz | BakerHostetler on 1/23/2013

Antitrust law and economics seem like dark arts to outsiders, an impression that antitrust lawyers are none too eager to dispel....more

China's Ministry of Commerce Announces Investigations into Failures to Notify a Concentration, Introduces New Transparency...

by Henry Chen, Frank Schoneveld | McDermott Will & Emery on 1/10/2013

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently announced that it opened four investigations during 2012 into suspected non-compliance with China’s merger control notification procedures. The outcomes of the investigations are still...more

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