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Overview
Why You Should Attend
What is driving the current market? How has the current M&A market affected strategics and approaches to dealmaking? How should companies be preparing for hostile takeovers? Join our expert faculty of lawyers, general counsels, regulators and investment bankers as we explore the current state of M&A and the trends you need to be aware of for the year ahead.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand the participants, deal types and financing engines driving the current M&A market
- Identify which cutting-edge deal protection and defense strategies and tactics are most effective
- Navigate the current regulatory environment affecting mergers
- Understand the elements, risks and rewards of the LBO Model
- Apply best practices for the treatment of equity awards in transactions
- Understand their ethical obligations while negotiating a deal
Who Should Attend
This seminar is geared to attorneys in private practice, in-house counsel, and other business professionals who seek a practical overview and update of key issues that arise in the dealmaking process.
Program Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Prerequisites: A background in the dealmaking process
Advanced Preparation: None
Lecture Topics [Total time 00:06:45]
Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only with the purchase of the entire program.
- Opening Remarks* [00:02:00]
- Current Landscape of the M&A Market [00:59:21]
Maggie D. Flores, David B. Feirstein, Dusty Philip - Overview of Hostile M&A and Deal Protections [00:59:14]
Eric S. Klinger-Wilensky, Lauren S. Boehmke, Anton Sahazizian - Regulatory Issues for the M&A Lawyer [01:00:42]
Elina Tetelbaum, Kenneth Reinker, Catherine Hein - Private Equity M&A [00:59:30]
Kristen P. Poole, C. Michael Chitwood, Ravi Purushotham - Employment & Executive Compensation Issues in M&A [00:59:18]
Stephanie B.. Vasconcellos, Gillian Emmett Moldowan, Scott Oberstaedt - Some Ethical Issues Arising in Mergers and Acquisitions [01:00:59]
Janis M. Meyer
The purchase price of this Web Program includes the following articles from the Course Handbook available online:
- Complete Course Handbook
- Overview of the Current M&A Landscape (July 2023)
David B. Feirstein,Maggie D. Flores - Mergers & Acquisitions: A Delaware Checklist (January 15, 2023)
Andrew M. Johnston,Daniel D. Matthews,Eric S. Klinger-Wilensky,James D. Honaker,Jeffrey R. Wolters,Melissa A. DiVincenzo,Patricia O. Vella - 2022 U.S. Shareholder Activism and Activist Settlement Agreements (December 13, 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - Francis J. Aquila, Editor, The Shareholder Rights and Activism Review (7th Ed. 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - Delaware Chancery Rules Tesla’s $2.6 Billion Acquisition of SolarCity “Entirely Fair” (May 20, 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - SEC Proposes Rule Amendments Related to Beneficial Ownership Reporting (February 14, 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - Delaware Court of Chancery Issues Its First Fiduciary Duty Opinion on SPACs (January 26, 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - FTC and DOJ Announce Joint Review of Merger Guidelines (January 19, 2022)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - SEC Mandates Universal Proxy Cards in Contested Director Elections (November 18, 2021)
Rita-Anne O’Neill - Cross-Border M&A Guide (April 2023)
Elina Tetelbaum - Skadden, Insights, How and Why Private Capital Continues to Invest in the Insurance Sector (June 2023)
C. Michael Chitwood,Katja Butler,Robert A. Chaplin - Skadden, Regulatory Focus on Consolidation May Present Opportunities for Private Equity Buyers (April 21, 2022)
Ann Beth Stebbins,C. Michael Chitwood,Maria Raptis - Atif Azher, Contributing Editor, Getting the Deal Through: Private Equity 2023
Ravi Purushotham - Private Equity M&A (PowerPoint slides)
Ackneil M. Muldrow,C. Michael Chitwood,Kristen Poole,Ravi Purushotham - Sherman & Sterling, New York State Poised to Ban Non-Competes (June 23, 2023)
Doreen E. Lilienfeld,Gillian Emmett Moldowan,John J. Cannon,Matthew Behrens - Sherman & Sterling, New FTC Sets Its Sights on Noncompete Agreements, Launches First Major Standalone Section 5 Claims (January 9, 2023)
Amelia (Memmi) Rasmussen,Ben Gris,David A. Higbee,Djordje Petkoski,Doreen E. Lilienfeld,Gillian Emmett Moldowan,Jacob Coate,Jessica K. Delbaum,John F. Cove,John J. Cannon,Rachel Mossman Zieminski,Todd M. Stenerson - 2020 Willis Towers Watson M&A Retention Survey, Fielded August–October 2020 (PowerPoint slides)
Scott Oberstaedt - WTW Severance Study: Recent Trends in Change in Control Severance Terms vs. Standard Severance (PowerPoint slides)
Scott Oberstaedt - WTW, 2018/19 Severance Plan Design Survey, North America (April 2019)
Scott Oberstaedt - 280G Regulations Compilation, 68 Fed. Reg. 45745, No. 149 (August 4, 2003)
Stephanie B. Vasconcellos - Some Ethical Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions
Janis M. Meyer
Presentation Material
- Current Landscape of the M&A Market
- Overview of Hostile M&A and Deal Protections
- Regulatory Issues for the M&A Lawyer
Catherine Hein, Kenneth Reinker, Elina Tetelbaum - Private Equity M&A
- Employment & Executive Compensation Issues in M&A
- Some Ethical Issues Arising in Mergers and Acquisitions
What is driving the current market? How has the current M&A market affected strategics and approaches to dealmaking? How should companies be preparing for hostile takeovers? Join our expert faculty of lawyers, general counsels, regulators and investment bankers as we explore the current state of M&A and the trends you need to be aware of for the year ahead.
What You Will Learn
After completing this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand the participants, deal types and financing engines driving the current M&A market
- Identify which cutting-edge deal protection and defense strategies and tactics are most effective
- Navigate the current regulatory environment affecting mergers
- Understand the elements, risks and rewards of the LBO Model
- Apply best practices for the treatment of equity awards in transactions
- Understand their ethical obligations while negotiating a deal
Program Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Prerequisites: A background in the dealmaking process
Advanced Preparation: None