Appraisal Rights

JUNE 19, 2018

A South African trial court has found that an investor who owned shares of a parent company which sold off its operating subsidiary is entitled to appraisal rights. The case concerns the appraisal rights of an activist investor in the company KWV, which had an operating subsidiary that owned liquor assets. According to a press account, the original merger was structured as a purchase of the KWV operating subsidiary, leaving the holding company with some property, art and cash.

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Cooley M&A

JUNE 8, 2018

Cooley M&A partner Michal Berkner comments in Acquisition Daily on the active year in M&A dealflow. “Conditions continue to be ripe for high levels of cross border M&A activity in the months ahead – cash rich corporates, Private Equity and funds with unprecedented levels of dry power and ticking investment clocks, financing available on favourable terms, CEOs eager to grow their businesses faster than would be possible organically and a general acceptance that the uncertain reg

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Burch & Co.

JUNE 6, 2018

DATES: July 17th through the 19th. . Please let us know if you are in the Chicago area or will be attending AM&AA and would like to discuss how Burch & Company’s services can fit into your practice. We will be meeting with M&A Advisors and Intermediaries as well as Private Equity groups while attending this conference. Our goal is to get a better understanding of the regional third party compliance needs and to expand our network of contacts.

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Sun M&A

JUNE 26, 2018

For most business owners, their company is their most valuable single asset. So why is it that we tend to know the value of our stock portfolios, our homes and even our cars but don’t have a clear realistic understanding about the value of our business? Doesn’t it make sense to know the value of something that makes up such a large portion of a business owner’s financial portfolio?

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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.

Marketability

Appraisal Rights

JUNE 18, 2018

In Delaware, appraisal is a creature of statute. It is a statutory claim, born from 8 Del. Code Section 262; it is a claim in its own right, but it also carries with it statutory requirements. Appraisal requires that the right kind of demand be sent at the right time by the right entity. Quasi-appraisal is a creature of the common law and, as lawyers from Blank Rome observe in a growing concern for deal lawyers.

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Appraisal Rights

JUNE 15, 2018

In the wake of the Dr Pepper decision that a reverse triangular merger does not carry appraisal rights and considering corporate counsel’s growing concern over appraisal petitions, one might wonder whether we will see a rush of reverse triangular mergers in order to try and thwart investor’s appraisal rights. Lawyers from Fried Frank say no in this Law360 piece [$$$].

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Appraisal Rights

JUNE 6, 2018

In April 2018, shareholders of Dr. Pepper filed a lawsuit challenging a merger with Keurig – a deal they called convoluted and which was allegedly designed to deny them appraisal rights. One particular branch of that challenge, that the deal itself actually should have carried appraisal rights, was decided in June 2018 against the shareholders. Dr.

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