On November 16, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech regarding the implementation of the Department of Justice’s recent policy initiatives to facilitate the ...
In case you are wondering – no, this is not about making the closing more festive, or planning for a champagne celebration after the closing.
As companies think about the timing of the ...
Proxy access is back in the news and back on the agenda for many U.S. public companies. Four years after the DC Circuit invalidated the SEC’s proxy-access rule, we are seeing company-by...
On March 7, 2014, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery found a financial advisor liable for aiding and abetting breaches of fiduciary duties by the board of Rur...
Yesterday, Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. of the Delaware Court of Chancery upheld the statutory and contractual validity of bylaws separately adopted by the boards of directors of Chevron...
The Delaware Chancery Court, in an opinion written by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, recently declined to find that a series of four spin-off and split-off transactions by Liberty Medi...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), enacted after a long and intensive legislative process, will impact private funds and their advis...
Despite credit market turmoil and declines in deal activity, antitrust remains an important consideration in M&A transactions involving private equity buyers and sellers. The Obama admini...
