Sat.Jul 28, 2018 - Fri.Aug 03, 2018

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Delaware Chancery Decides Solera** and Norcraft Appraisals

Appraisal Rights

The Delaware Court of Chancery just issued two new appraisal rulings: Solera (C. Bouchard) : the Court awarded merger price less synergies, which comes out to 3.4% below deal price; we have previously reported on the Solera case here ; and. Norcraft (V.C. Slights) : the Court awarded a premium of 2.5% above deal price, relying on a DCF analysis and expressly rejecting a valuation based on merger price less synergies.

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UK Government Proposes New Regime for Acquisitions That Have National Security Implications

Cooley M&A

On 24 July 2018, the UK government published details of its proposed new regime for the scrutiny of foreign investments that may have national security implications. The details are contained in the National Security and Investment White Paper and a draft Statutory Statement of Policy Intent (together, the “Proposals”). The Proposals build on the Government’s National Security and Infrastructure Investment Review Green Paper published in October 2017, which led to the introduct