Mergers & Acquisitions
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Latest News in Mergers & Acquisitions
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June 26, 2017
BancorpSouth Investors Win Class Cert. In AML Probe Suit
A Tennessee federal judge signed off on Monday on a bid by shareholders in BancorpSouth Inc. to unite as a class in their suit against the company for allegedly lying about its compliance with anti-money laundering laws, saying they met established legal standards.
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June 26, 2017
FelCor Hit With Investor Suit Over Merger With RLJ Lodging
A putative class of shareholders in FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. hit the company and RLJ Lodging Trust with a suit in Maryland federal court Monday, alleging that material information about the two real estate investment trusts’ plans to create the third-largest U.S. lodging REIT wasn’t adequately disclosed to shareholders.
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June 26, 2017
Customers Seek Early Win In AMR-US Airways Merger Dispute
A group of travel agents and customers with long-running antitrust claims against American Airlines parent company AMR Corp. over its acquisition of US Airways asked a New York bankruptcy judge Friday to award them a pretrial judgment and unwind the airline tie-up based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 26, 2017
Cravath Guides Martin Marietta In $1.625B Bluegrass Buy
Martin Marietta, led by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, will buy private equity-backed Bluegrass Materials for $1.625 billion in cash, paving the way for a deal expected to strengthen the building materials supplier’s existing footprint and position it for future growth, according to a Monday statement.
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June 26, 2017
Third Point Takes $3.5B Nestle Stake, Calls For Change
Activist hedge fund Third Point revealed a more than $3.5 billion stake in Nestlé in a Sunday letter to investors, contending that the Swiss food company is an underperforming conglomerate “ripe” for change and should monetize it’s L'Oréal stake and return capital to shareholders.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers and acquisitions valued at $100MM or more
- Company spinoffs and splitups
- Transactions involving stakes of $100MM or more
- Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
- Poison pill implementation
- Bankruptcy selloffs
- AGENCIES
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Merger reviews
- Second requests
- Challenges and divestitures
- LITIGATION
- Antitrust suits
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate governance fights
- Proxy battles and hostile takeover suits
- Poison pill challenges
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of mergers and acquisitions practices
Readership
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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