Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights June 7, 2011 Client Update SEC Whistleblower Rules: What You Need to Know The SEC has now issued rules implementing the Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty provisions, ushering in a radically new comp... 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... February 9, 2011 Client Update Summary of Federal Reserve Proposed Rule on Definitions Related to Nonbank Financial Companies and Interconnectedness of Systemically Important Firms On February 8, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued a notice of proposed ru... 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,” ... September 27, 2010 Client Update Reverse Termination Fees: A Resurgence -- The Deal Video Interview In the few years before the credit crisis, financial buyers often arranged to buy businesses in deals that required a term... September 16, 2010 Client Update Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds and Their Investment Advisers The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), enacted after a long and intensi... Load More
June 7, 2011 Client Update SEC Whistleblower Rules: What You Need to Know The SEC has now issued rules implementing the Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty provisions, ushering in a radically new comp...
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...
February 9, 2011 Client Update Summary of Federal Reserve Proposed Rule on Definitions Related to Nonbank Financial Companies and Interconnectedness of Systemically Important Firms On February 8, 2011, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Board”) issued a notice of proposed ru...
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,” ...
September 27, 2010 Client Update Reverse Termination Fees: A Resurgence -- The Deal Video Interview In the few years before the credit crisis, financial buyers often arranged to buy businesses in deals that required a term...
September 16, 2010 Client Update Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Private Equity Funds, Hedge Funds and Their Investment Advisers The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), enacted after a long and intensi...