M&A Law Prof Blog
Covers mergers and acquisitions news and information for mainly a law professor audience.
Author: Steven Davidoff is an assistant professor at Wayne State University Law School..
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Recent Posts from M&A Law Prof Blog
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IPOs versus Acquisitions: An Empirical Analysis
The IPO versus acquisition exit is a continuing area of interest: Why go sell when you can go public at a higher valuation? My first reaction is that if you sell, you can then head…
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"Artie" was right to be spooked
Don't trade options. Yes, that's right, but it turns out these guys weren't as smart as they thought. Best not to share confidential information about your client's transaction with anyone. From the DOJ's criminal complaint:…
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More Bad Lawyers...
The Galleon case takes more scalps. From the SEC's litigation release. The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against nine defendants in a case involving serial insider trading by a ring of…
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Schapiro on Shareholder Access
SEC Chair Mary Schapiro's address (yesterday) to the PLI on shareholder voting and proxy access is here. Her thoughts on shareholder access (in part): Corporate governance, after all, is about maintaining an appropriate level of…
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Takeover Panel and Arsenal
I think I've said before that I love takeovers of sports teams - mostly because it let's me read the sports pages on company time. Well, there's a bit of a to-do brewing in the…
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Grundfest on Shareholder Access
Joe Grundfest fo Stanford has a new paper on the SEC's shareholder access proposal, The SEC's Proposed Proxy Access Proposal: Politics, Economics, and the Law. Abstract: The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed proxy rules…
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13(d) and 13(g) Staff Interpretations
The new SEC staff interpretations (September 19, 2009 update) on 13(d) and 13(g) and a not so random selection of one of the Q&A's have been posted. They're worth reviewing if these questions have kept…
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VC Laster's First Days
Vice Chancellor Laster's first days on the job and an informative backgrounder of the Chancery's newest vice chancellor: Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster strode down the hallway used by judges in Delaware's Court of Chancery…
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Derivatives, Complexity, and Asymmetric Information
Arora, et al have a paper, Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products, which concludes that the complexity of financial derivatives due in part to the complicated structure of many derivatives, the sheer volume…
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Bad Lawyers
This is a story with sad endings all around. Last week, the SEC charged Canadian lawyer, Stanko Grmovsek with insider trading. Here's the SEC's complaint. The complaint alleges that Grmovsek was involved in a 14…