Davis Polk partners Will Pearce and John Bick are delighted to be contributing editors of the updated edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2020, a comprehensive overview of ...
Davis Polk partners Will Pearce and John Bick are delighted to be contributing editors of the updated edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2019, a comprehensive overview of ...
Will Pearce and John Bick are delighted to be contributing editors of the inaugural edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2018, a comprehensive overview of the laws, regulati...
The Delaware Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice Strine, recently reversed and remanded the Chancery Court’s ruling in DFC Global Corporation v. Muirfield Value Partners, L.P....
Minority equity investments in public companies are on the rise.These are often structured as an investment in convertible preferred stock to give the investor a senior position to other ...
In October 2016, the SEC proposed rules that would, if adopted, substantially impact proxy contests at U.S. public companies. Under the SEC’s proposal, each party – management and one...
On November 18, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance published new guidance relating to its 2015 no-action letter on 5-day debt tender and exchange offers, and also provided guidan...
In recent months, there have been a number of important developments relating to stockholder appraisal rights in Delaware. Appraisal rights are generally available to dissenting stockhol...
On June 23, 2016, the UK electorate voted to leave the European Union. The referendum was advisory rather than mandatory and does not have any immediate legal consequences. It will, howev...
Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representations in the agreement are the sole representations on which the par...
