Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights February 25, 2016 Client Update UK Takeover Panel Consultation on Communication and Distribution of Information During an Offer On 15 February 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on its proposed amendments to the Takeover Code ... January 21, 2016 Client Update Revised 2016 Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and For the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thre... January 11, 2016 Client Update Will Anti-Reliance Provisions Preclude Extra-Contractual Fraud Claims? Answers Differ in Delaware, New York, and California Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representatio... November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co... October 29, 2015 Client Update UK Takeover Code - Dividends, Acting in Concert and Restrictions and Suspensions of Voting Rights The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in three Response Statements t... October 28, 2015 Client Update Closing Your M&A Deal on a Weekend In case you are wondering – no, this is not about making the closing more festive, or planning for a champagne celebrati... October 23, 2015 Client Update MOFCOM Lifts Many, But Not All, Hold Separate Requirements Previously Imposed as Conditions to Clearance of Hard Disk Drive Deals Over three years ago, MOFCOM conditioned its clearance of two hard disk drive transactions on unprecedented hold separate ... October 13, 2015 Articles & Books Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2016 Ronan Harty authors the United States chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2016, which covers the regulat... October 13, 2015 Client Update UK Takeover Code – Offer-Related Arrangements and Equality of Information to Competing Offerors The UK Takeover Panel has published two new Practice Statements on offer-related arrangements and the equality of informat... August 26, 2015 Client Update FTC Settlement with Activist Fund Clarifies Scope of HSR Passive Investment Exemption The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on Monday reached a settl... Load More
February 25, 2016 Client Update UK Takeover Panel Consultation on Communication and Distribution of Information During an Offer On 15 February 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on its proposed amendments to the Takeover Code ...
January 21, 2016 Client Update Revised 2016 Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and For the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thre...
January 11, 2016 Client Update Will Anti-Reliance Provisions Preclude Extra-Contractual Fraud Claims? Answers Differ in Delaware, New York, and California Merger agreements and other complex contracts often contain “anti-reliance” provisions reciting that the representatio...
November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co...
October 29, 2015 Client Update UK Takeover Code - Dividends, Acting in Concert and Restrictions and Suspensions of Voting Rights The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in three Response Statements t...
October 28, 2015 Client Update Closing Your M&A Deal on a Weekend In case you are wondering – no, this is not about making the closing more festive, or planning for a champagne celebrati...
October 23, 2015 Client Update MOFCOM Lifts Many, But Not All, Hold Separate Requirements Previously Imposed as Conditions to Clearance of Hard Disk Drive Deals Over three years ago, MOFCOM conditioned its clearance of two hard disk drive transactions on unprecedented hold separate ...
October 13, 2015 Articles & Books Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2016 Ronan Harty authors the United States chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2016, which covers the regulat...
October 13, 2015 Client Update UK Takeover Code – Offer-Related Arrangements and Equality of Information to Competing Offerors The UK Takeover Panel has published two new Practice Statements on offer-related arrangements and the equality of informat...
August 26, 2015 Client Update FTC Settlement with Activist Fund Clarifies Scope of HSR Passive Investment Exemption The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on Monday reached a settl...