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"The blog for acquisitive minds—contributions from the M&A community."

Author: Broc Romanek, a former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is editor of the blawg. He also authors TheCorporateCounsel.net and contributes to The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog.

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Recent Posts from DealLawyers.com


  • This Poison Pill Aids Investors

    This Poison Pill Aids Investors BreakingViews had this interesting article in the NY Times on Wednesday entitled "This Poison Pill Aids Investors." You may also want to check out this blog entitled "The Wrong Prescription?…

  • ABA's "2009 Strategic Buyer/Public Target Deal Point Study"

    ABA's "2009 Strategic Buyer/Public Target Deal Point Study" Recently, the ABA M&A Committee released its "2009 Strategic Buyer/Public Target Deal Point Study." This is the latest in the Committee's "Deal Point Study" series - and…

  • Private Equity and Dealmaking

    Private Equity and Dealmaking In this podcast, Professor Steve Davidoff discusses his new book "Gods at War: Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal and the Private Equity Implosion," including: - What's the hardest part of writing…

  • Corp Fin Releases Two New Lock-Up CDIs

    Corp Fin Releases Two New Lock-Up CDIs Yesterday, Corp Fin's Office of Mergers & Acquisitions issued these two new Section 5 CDIs: - New Question 139.29 (registered debt exchange offers and executing lock-up agreement with…

  • An Interview with VC Laster

    An Interview with VC Laster In his "Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation" Blog, Francis Pileggi provides us with this interview with the newest member of the Delaware Court of Chancery, Travis Laster. Good stuff! The…

  • Some M&A Survey Stats

    Some M&A Survey Stats Here are some of the finer points from a recent Dykema "2009 M&A Outlook Survey": - Confidence in the U.S. M&A market is starting to improve. In 2008, only 16 percent…

  • Analysis: Ability of Shareholders to Call Special Meetings

    Analysis: Ability of Shareholders to Call Special Meetings Continuing our proxy solicitor podcast series, in this podcast, Rick Grubaugh of D.F. King & Co. provides some insight into issues related to shareholder proposals seeking to…

  • Black & Decker's CEO Does the Right Thing? Foregoes Change-of-Control Payment

    Black & Decker's CEO Does the Right Thing? Foregoes Change-of-Control Payment I loved Michelle Leder's title of her footnoted.org blog today entitled "On Black and Decker's CEO and unicorns...". Michelle was referring to the Form…

  • Study: Selected U.S. Strategic M&A Transactions

    Study: Selected U.S. Strategic M&A Transactions From Paul Weiss: Here is our recent survey of selected U.S. strategic mergers announced during the period from August 1, 2007 to July 31, 2009. The M&A marketplace during…

  • The United Kingdom: A Hostile Paradise?

    The United Kingdom: A Hostile Paradise? The thoughtful analysis below was written a little while back by Nelson Seraci of RiskMetrics' M&A Edge Research Team: On September 7th, U.S. food giant Kraft announced a "bear…