Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights March 18, 2011 Client Update SEC Proposal Clarifies No Change to “Beneficial Ownership” Rules for Swaps The SEC proposed yesterday to readopt the beneficial ownership rules currently in effect to preserve the status quo with r... February 16, 2011 Client Update Delaware Court Declines to Pull Airgas Poison Pill In a much-anticipated decision issued last night in Air Products v. Airgas, Chancellor Chandler declined to compel the boa... February 15, 2011 Client Update Delaware Court Enjoins Merger Vote and Deal Protections in Del Monte Buyout On the eve of the shareholder vote to approve the $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of Del Monte Foods, Vice Chancellor Travis... January 27, 2011 Client Update SEC Adopts Final Say-on-Pay and Golden Parachute Rules On January 25, 2011, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted final rules implementing the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that req... January 26, 2011 Client Update What a Difference a Year Makes: A Review of Acquisition Financing in 2010 In a January 2010 memorandum titled “Acquisition Financing in 2010 - Trends from 2009”, we considered the state of acq... January 25, 2011 Client Update Investing In or Acquiring Troubled Banks: The Problem of Holding Company Debt In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capita... January 25, 2011 Client Update Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and for the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates - January 2011 The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds th... November 23, 2010 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Invalidates Airgas Bylaw Amendment In a practical ruling that explicitly acknowledges the relevance of “[p]ractice and understanding in the real world,” ... November 17, 2010 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Two Comment Letters to the SEC on Key Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Rulemaking Yesterday we submitted two comment letters to the SEC on key executive compensation and corporate governance rulemaking th... November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Proposed Rules Relating to Shareholder Approval of Executive Compensation and Golden Parachute Compensation (the “Proposal”) We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission... Load More
March 18, 2011 Client Update SEC Proposal Clarifies No Change to “Beneficial Ownership” Rules for Swaps The SEC proposed yesterday to readopt the beneficial ownership rules currently in effect to preserve the status quo with r...
February 16, 2011 Client Update Delaware Court Declines to Pull Airgas Poison Pill In a much-anticipated decision issued last night in Air Products v. Airgas, Chancellor Chandler declined to compel the boa...
February 15, 2011 Client Update Delaware Court Enjoins Merger Vote and Deal Protections in Del Monte Buyout On the eve of the shareholder vote to approve the $5.3 billion leveraged buyout of Del Monte Foods, Vice Chancellor Travis...
January 27, 2011 Client Update SEC Adopts Final Say-on-Pay and Golden Parachute Rules On January 25, 2011, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted final rules implementing the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that req...
January 26, 2011 Client Update What a Difference a Year Makes: A Review of Acquisition Financing in 2010 In a January 2010 memorandum titled “Acquisition Financing in 2010 - Trends from 2009”, we considered the state of acq...
January 25, 2011 Client Update Investing In or Acquiring Troubled Banks: The Problem of Holding Company Debt In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capita...
January 25, 2011 Client Update Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and for the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates - January 2011 The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds th...
November 23, 2010 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Invalidates Airgas Bylaw Amendment In a practical ruling that explicitly acknowledges the relevance of “[p]ractice and understanding in the real world,” ...
November 17, 2010 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Two Comment Letters to the SEC on Key Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Rulemaking Yesterday we submitted two comment letters to the SEC on key executive compensation and corporate governance rulemaking th...
November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Proposed Rules Relating to Shareholder Approval of Executive Compensation and Golden Parachute Compensation (the “Proposal”) We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission...