Cooley M&A

JANUARY 12, 2018

The January 12, 2018, edition of TechCrunch’s weekly venture capital-focused podcast, Equity, looks back at the past year’s M&A transactions and evaluates what’s in store for 2018. Cooley partner and co-chair of the firm’s M&A practice, Jamie Leigh, discusses 2017’s market uncertainty while predicting a more competitive and bold M&A space in 2018.

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Appraisal Rights

JANUARY 31, 2018

On Dec. 14, 2017, the Delaware Supreme Court handed down the Dell decision. We covered the decision previously. In the month that has followed, coverage of the Dell decision has been intense. Numerous news outlets, blogs, corporate governance authors, and law firms have provided their own take on the Dell decision. We have collected some of that commentary, with illustrative quotations reflecting the breadth of that coverage, as follows.

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Appraisal Rights

JANUARY 19, 2018

In Kahn v. Stern , an opinion issued by the Delaware Court of Chancery mid last year, the Court dismissed a breach of fiduciary duty claim seeking, among other remedies, quasi-appraisal damages. The case arose out of the sale of Kreisler Manufacturing Corporation (“Kreisler”), a small, thinly-traded (listed only on the pink sheets), public aerospace manufacturing company, to Arlington Capital Partners (“Arlington”).

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Appraisal Rights

JANUARY 10, 2018

The Harvard Business Law Review has published “The High Cost of Fewer Appraisal Claims in 2017: Premia Down, Agency Costs Up ” an article we’ve blogged about previously , including commentary from interested authors. The HBLR piece, by Matthew Schoenfeld, argues that weakened shareholder litigation reduces the acquisition premium in mergers. This is another contribution to the growing body of work connecting appraisal – and other litigation remedies – to protection of shareholder rights and va

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 24, 2018

Trump’s agency appointments are setting the antitrust agenda in 2018. We offer insights on what to expect in the new year, including an increased scrutiny on vertical mergers; a heightened focus on structural remedies in enforcement actions; a continued spotlight on the pharmaceutical industry – particularly with respect to proposed mergers and reverse payment agreements; a potential Supreme Court ruling on the rule of reason; criminal prosecutions of no-poach and wage-fixing agreements; increas

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