Go-Shops: Market Check Magic or Mirage?
Editor’s Note: This post is by Mark A. Morton of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP. I recently submitted a new paper, Go-Shops: Market Check Magic or Mirage? for a panel entitled Selling to Private...
View ArticleGo-Shops With Matching Rights: Reimbursing Topping Bidders
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to host the following dialogue between Mark Morton of Potter Anderson and Corroon and Larry Hamermesh of Widener Law School, precipitated by Mark’s ruminations about...
View ArticleSponsor-backed Going Private Transactions
Editor’s Note: This post is by Ira M. Millstein of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. The Private Equity Group at my firm has recently issued its third annual survey of sponsor-backed going private...
View ArticleTest-Driving a Hybrid Go-Shop
Editor’s Note: David Fox is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on complex mergers and acquisitions as a member of that firm's Corporate Group. This post is based on a Kirkland & Ellis...
View ArticleA Quick Survey of Recent Developments in Public M&A Deal Terms
Editor’s Note: David Fox is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on complex mergers and acquisitions as a member of that firm's Corporate Group. This post is based on a Kirkland & Ellis...
View Article2011 Private Equity Buyer/Public Target M&A Deal Study
Editor’s Note: Marc Weingarten is partner and chair of the Business Transactions Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. This post is based on the Schulte Roth & Zabel 2011 Private Equity...
View ArticleSurveying Sponsor-Backed Going Private Transactions
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Douglas P. Warner, partner and co-head of the Hedge Fund practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and discusses a Weil survey, available here....
View ArticleUpdated Private Equity Buyer/Public Target M&A Deal Study
Editor’s Note: Marc Weingarten is partner and chair of the Business Transactions Group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. This post is based on the updated Schulte Roth & Zabel 2011 Private Equity...
View ArticlePrivate Equity/Public Target Deals: Mid-Year Update
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from John Pollack and David Rosewater, partners focusing mergers & acquisitions at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. This post is based on the Schulte Roth...
View ArticleSponsor-Backed Going Private Transactions
Editor's Note: Douglas P. Warner is a partner and head of US Private Equity and Hedge Fund practices at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. This post is based on the methodology and key findings of a Weil...
View ArticleCustom (Go-)Shopping
Editor's Note: Daniel Wolf is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis focusing on mergers and acquisitions. The following post is based on a Kirkland memorandum by Mr. Wolf, David B. Feirstein, Sarkis...
View ArticleNo Free Shop
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Charles Calomiris, Professor of Finance at Columbia University. In the paper, No Free Shop: Why Target Companies in MBOs and Private Equity...
View ArticleGo-Shops: Market Check Magic or Mirage?
Editor's Note: This post is by Mark A. Morton of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP. I recently submitted a new paper, Go-Shops: Market Check Magic or Mirage? for a panel entitled Selling to Private...
View ArticleGo-Shops With Matching Rights: Reimbursing Topping Bidders
Editor's Note: We’re pleased to host the following dialogue between Mark Morton of Potter Anderson and Corroon and Larry Hamermesh of Widener Law School, precipitated by Mark’s ruminations about...
View ArticleDelaware Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Requiring Go-Shop
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from David L. Caplan, partner and global co-head of the mergers and acquisitions practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, and is based on a Davis Polk...
View ArticleDelaware Supreme Court Holds That Revlon Does Not Require Active Market Check
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Jason M. Halper, partner in the Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Practice Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and is...
View ArticleFair Price and Process in Delaware Appraisals
Posted by Jason M. Halper, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Friday, November 6, 2015 Editor's Note: Jason M. Halper is partner in the Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement...
View ArticleMerion Capital: Merger Price as a Factor in Appraisal Action
Posted by William P. Mills, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, on Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Editor's Note: William P. Mills is a partner in the New York Office of Cadwalader, Wickersham &...
View ArticlePutting RBC Capital In Context
Posted by John C. Coates, Harvard Law School, on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 Editor's Note: John C. Coates is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. This post is...
View ArticleM&A at a Glance: 2015 Year-End Roundup
Posted by Ariel J. Deckelbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Friday, January 29, 2016 Editor's Note: Ariel J. Deckelbaum is a partner and deputy chair of the Corporate Department...
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