Securities Law 101 (Part V): Issuing Shares of Stock for Mergers and Acquisitions
So your company wants to use its stock to buy another company? As we have seen, stock consideration is coming back into vogue. Full Story
Mergers & Acquisitions
Medical Device M&a Market Off to Strong Start in 2013
Even as medical device M&A activity declined in 2012, analysts predicted that “[m]edical device mergers look poised to take off in 2013” and that there would be an “M&A boom in the medical device space.” Full Story
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M&a Litigation Loss Prevention and Other Web Notes
As I detailed in recent blog posts (here and here), these days virtually every public company M&A transaction is likely to involve M&A-related litigation. Full Story
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Cornerstone Research Releases 2012 M&a Litigation Report
Plaintiff law firms continued to file lawsuits in connection with virtually every mergers and acquisitions transaction in 2012, according to an updated report from Cornerstone Research. Full Story
M&a Lawsuits After the Merger Closes
As I have frequently noted on this blog (most recently here), one of the most distinctive litigation phenomenon has been the rise in litigation involving M&A activity. It has gotten to the point that virtually every merger now also involves a lawsuit (or, more often, multiple suits). Full Story
Proposals to Address the M&a-Related Litigation Problem
The growing problem of M&A-related litigation has been well-documented on this site (refer for example here). The prevalence of M&A litigation has grown to the point that virtually every M&A transaction involves litigation, and often involving multiple lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions. Full Story
M&a, AOL Style
Last week AOL Chair and CEO Tim Armstrong, a young and fast-talking executive of the new media, addressed the season’s first meeting of the Boston Association for Corporate Growth. Full Story
Good News for Canadian Mortgagees
US lenders in cross-border M&A transactions often ask how real estate security differs in Canada. The short answer is not much; the security and legal requirements are pretty much the same (though perhaps not as heavily negotiated and labyrinthine as US-style documentation). Full Story
Mergers & Acquisitions: Don’t Forget About Employee Compliance with Nondisclosure Agreements
The cornerstone of merger and acquisitions – the buying and selling of all or part of a business – is the non-disclosure agreement. And similar to the critical role a cornerstone has in building a foundation, the nondisclosure agreement also serves as the reference point for completing a business transaction. Full Story
Transparency International’s Guidance On Anti-Bribery Due Diligence for Transactions
Transparency International UK (“TI-UK”) recently published this guidance relating to mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and other forms of investment. As reported by the Ernst & Young 2011, 11th Global Fraud Survey:
“Despite the many recent examples of the perils of ignoring the fraud and corruption dimension of these assessments, a fifth of companies still do not consider it as part of M&A due diligence and a quarter never consider it in a post-acquisition review”. Full Story
