14 Nov, 2018 Xerox/Fuji: Don’t Copy This, Part 2 By Matthew Herman Peter Lyons Nathan Hembree In April, Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York Commercial Division granted a preliminary injunction motion, blocking the proposed...
05 Nov, 2018 How can M&A failure be avoided? By Rhys Evans Sellers in M&A processes are looking for three things: value, speed and certainty. At no point since the global financial crisis has...
03 Oct, 2018 Big MAC? Whopper? Or just a Nothing Burger? By Paul Humphreys Sebastian Fain Matthew Herman Peter Lyons +1 more... Show less When asked by clients to explain what constitutes a “Material Adverse Change”, M&A practitioners, after giving a brief synopsis of the...
02 Oct, 2018 Successful dealmaking in uncertain times By Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Even by recent standards, 2018 has been a remarkable year for M&A. Figures from Thomson Reuters reveal that dealmaking in the first six...
02 Oct, 2018 Family investors: a new class of global investors By Heiko Jander-Mcalister Not so long ago, family offices were dismissed as passive investors with low-profile portfolios comprising apartment buildings, shares...
02 Oct, 2018 Global protectionist wave shows no signs of slowing down By Paul Seppi While global M&A activity has reached record levels lately, the Financial Times has reported that $540bn of proposed acquisitions had...
02 Oct, 2018 Xerox/Fuji: Don’t Copy This By Marissa Yu Matthew Herman In April, a New York court temporarily blocked the proposed $6.1 billion merger between Xerox Corporation (Xerox) and Fujifilm Holdings...