Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 487: Listen and Learn -- Consideration (Contract Law)
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Private Equity and Delaware Law – Part Two
3 Key Takeaways | Drafting & Navigating Dispute Resolution Clauses
Private Equity and Delaware Law – Part One
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Beyond Regulations: Hospice Business Contracts and Contract Disputes
Structuring DSO/MSO Healthcare Ventures and Practice Acquisitions
Monthly Minute | Global Supply Chain Issues
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Buy-Sell Agreements: A Conversation With Expert and Author Paul Hood
Risk Prevention Strategies: Ownership of Employee-Developed Inventions and Intellectual Property
Noncompete Agreements - Traps for the Unwary: Part 1
Roadmap to Joint Venture Agreements: Legal and Accounting Considerations
Government Contracting Phase One: Transitioning From Commercial to Government Work
Mergers and Acquisitions - Key Issues in Today's M&A Deals
Monthly Minute | Due Diligence Considerations Related to COVID-19
MAE Clauses: Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton COVID-19 Litigation Podcast Series
Jones Day Presents: What is Smart Code and How Does it Relate to Smart Contracts?
Tax Provisions in Business Acquisition Agreements
There’s a tongue-in-cheek joke within the legal industry that transactional lawyers create the problems, and the litigators get paid to clean them up. It’s a cautionary reminder to transactional lawyers: if the dealmaking...more
In M&A transactions, unknown target liabilities are typically addressed in different ways throughout the M&A purchase agreement. A no undisclosed liabilities representation is one of the principal representations in an M&A...more
Representation and warranty insurance (“RWI”) is an increasingly important feature of private company M&A transactions. Every other year since 2005 the ABA has released its Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point...more
In M&A transactions, the definitive purchase agreement (whether asset purchase agreement, stock purchase agreement, or merger agreement) typically contains representations, warranties, and covenants, along with related...more
In merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, the definitive purchase agreement whether asset purchase agreement, stock purchase agreement, or merger agreement typically contains representations and warranties made by the...more
Is your M&A target a manufacturing company with automated production, a consumer products business with online sales and marketing or an education company that creates content for students? The increasing use and development...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As reflected in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies: “Knowledge” is now almost always defined in private company...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies: Over the time period covered by the nine studies (2005-2021), the level of...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - Over the past 15+ years covered by the ABA studies, materiality scrapes have morphed from being a somewhat uncommon provision, seen in about 14% of transactions in 2005, to...more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Points Studies. Over the nine ABA studies (2005-2021), indemnity caps have declined as a...more
TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES - Once the terms of intellectual property and infrastructure transfer have been agreed, the buyer should investigate the human resources required to maintain and support the application. ...more
In merger and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions, the definitive purchase agreement (whether asset purchase agreement, stock purchase agreement, or merger agreement) typically contains representations and warranties made by the...more
Merger and purchase agreements involving Maryland corporations and REITs may be governed by Maryland law. For lawyers accustomed to agreements governed by Delaware or New York law, we are frequently asked to describe key...more
As we previously reported, a company’s social media pages and profiles, and the associated followers, friends and other connections, may constitute valuable business assets. In our experience, however, social media assets...more
The good news is that you can insure almost anything! In M&A transactions, buyers and sellers spend a great deal of time allocating risk relating to known and unknown pre-closing liabilities. The buyer’s view of the...more
Attorney Stephen Gulotta, Managing Member of Mintz Levin's New York office, discusses the key elements in a purchase agreement....more
Munich-based partner Jörg Kirchner and NY-based partner Eli Hunt discuss four key ways that private equty transactions in European and the US tend to differ. Kirchner, a Global Co-chair of Latham & Watkins’ Corporate...more