Tailored considerations for boards of directors and management in the current environment.
Key Points:
..Hostile takeover activity and stockholder activism often correspond with or follow periods of extreme market...more
Shareholder rights plans were developed more than 30 years ago to fend off opportunistic hostile offers and other abusive takeover transactions. Rights plans deter unauthorized stock accumulations by imposing substantial...more
Latham & Watkins partner Brad Faris explains the M&A term poison pill, an action taken by a company to make its equity less attractive to potential acquirers in order to prevent being acquired in a hostile takeover. For...more