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In a much-anticipated decision issued last night in Air Products v. Airgas, Chancellor Chandler declined to compel the board of directors of Airgas, Inc. to redeem the Company’s poison ...
On the eve of the shareholder vote to approve the $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of Del Monte Foods, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery last night issued a pre...
On January 26, 2011, the SEC and the CFTC (the “Commissions”) jointly released proposed new rules under the Commodity Exchange Act and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advi...
The final regulations implement the conformance period during which banking entities must bring their activities, investments and relationships into compliance with the prohibitions and r...
On February 11, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida quashed a 2009 Bankruptcy Court decision that had ordered certain lenders of Florida-based homebuilder T...
In response to requirements in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the SEC issued proposed rules today that would revise the Form S-3 and Form F-3 transaction e...
On February 8, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment setting forth suggested definiti...
On January 25, 2011, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted final rules implementing the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that require U.S. public companies to conduct separate shareholder adviso...
In a January 2010 memorandum titled “Acquisition Financing in 2010 - Trends from 2009”, we considered the state of acquisition finance in 2009 and drew some tentative conclusions abou...
In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capital, we have received numerous client inquiries regarding the diffe...