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2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Key Considerations in Carve-Out Transactions

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As global M&A activity reached record highs this year, so too did the market's appetite for carve-out transactions. A carve-out transaction is the sale of a subsidiary, division, or other part of a larger business enterprise....more

Goulston & Storrs PC

No Undisclosed Liabilities Representations

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Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As reflected in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies... Originally Published in Bloomberg Law - February 2021....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Bouncing Back January 28, 2021 | Issue No. 20 - English Courts Consider Material Adverse Effect Clause Invoked by the Effects of...

In the recent case of Travelport Ltd v Wex Inc [2020] EWHC 2670 (Comm) (the “Travelport Case”), the High Courts of England considered the construction of a material adverse effect clause (“MAE Clause”) in which a party sought...more

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Indemnification as an Exclusive Remedy

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Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As reflected in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies... Originally published by Bloomberg Law....more

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English Court Rules On COVID-19 Material Adverse Effect In M&A Transaction

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On 12 October 2020, the Commercial Court handed down judgment in the first case in which the English courts have had to consider whether COVID-19 resulted in a material adverse effect (“MAE”) (Travelport Ltd & Ors v WEX Inc...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

WEX Win Interpreting COVID-19 Material Adverse Effect Shows M&A Drafting Traps

On October 12, 2020, in Travelport Ltd & Ors v WEX Inc [2020] EWHC 2670, Justice Cockerill of the English High Court held that WEX had in large part correctly interpreted the terms of the material adverse effect (MAE) clause...more

White and Williams LLP

Delaware Chancery Court Addresses the Seller’s Preservation of Privilege Post-Closing

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Preserving privilege with respect to pre-closing communications between a selling corporation’s counsel and its management is an important negotiation point in many transactions, so that the seller can prevent the buyer from...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

In-House Lawyers Can Be Subjected to Restrictive Covenant Agreements, A Recent Decision Suggests

Lawyers generally believe non-competes don’t apply to the profession.  That’s mostly true, including for in-house counsel.  A recent court decision calls this into question....more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Fall 2017 Edition: The Dangers of Undefined Fraud Carve-Outs and “Inelegant Drafting”

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Crucial to any private equity seller is certainty: the certainty that a sale will be consummated at an agreed price and that any potential post-closing liability is fully understood in advance of distributing proceeds to...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

California Court of Appeal Strictly Enforces Carveout Guaranty

In “what appears to be an issue of first impression, not only in California, but in the entire country,” the California Court of Appeal in Series AGI West Linn of Appian Group Investors De LLC v. Eves (June 14, 2013)...more

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