Law 360 M&A

JUNE 28, 2022

Paul Hastings LLP said Tuesday it represented investment firms Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and Sixth Street Partners on the finance and mortgage aspects of their €2.3 billion ($2.42 billion) sale of residential mortgage lender Kensington Mortgage Co. and a portfolio of U.K. mortgage loans to Barclays Bank UK PLC.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 12, 2023

Increased Focus on Individual Directors: The proxy advisory firms as well as institutional investors were focused on the skills of individual director candidates and how those skills contributed to the overall composition of the board. Proxy contest expenses were largely consistent with previous years.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 15, 2024

This post comes to us from Paul Hasting, LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “Delaware Chancery Upholds Rejection of Advance Notice; Strikes Down Certain Bylaw Amendments,” dated January 5, 2024, and available here. 3d 656 (Del.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 7, 2022

Unless proxy advisory firms can provide meaningful assistance in evaluating a takeover attempt, it is usually foreseeable that the measures are going to be approved for fear of the unknown. This post comes to us from Paul Hastings LLP. Shareholders in a public company are not a cohesive corporate organ by any means.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 23, 2023

with a change in HHI of 100), despite the combined firm being the fourth-largest competitor in the market even post-transaction. This post comes to us from Paul Hastings LLP. Moreover, a merger between Epsilon and Zeta, which would yield a combined share of 15%, would be presumptively anticompetitive (i.e. 7] [link]. [8]

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This post comes to us from Paul Hastings LLP. It is based the firm’s memorandum, “The SEC scored another crypto victory in the LBRY case, but the sky is not falling,” dated November 14, 2022, and available here. . Forman , 421 U.S. 837, 853 (1975). [6]

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This post comes to us from Paul Hastings, LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “Public Company Update: Corporate America Beware: Labor Unions, Social Activists, and Universal Proxy Cards,” dated November 27, 2023, and available here.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The architect of this campaign was Eduardo Gallardo, the head of the M&A department at Paul Hastings LLP, and, in my view, one of the more creative experts in this field. This column will examine the defense devised by Masimo Corp.,

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