M&A Trends in Deal Terms and Tactics: Understanding Recent Legal Challenges, Leveraging Case Law, and Learning through Mock Negotiations
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide M&A counsel with a concise review of current trends in M&A deal terms, discuss developments driving these trends, and outline common issues and negotiations in deals. The program will include mock negotiations to illustrate the considerations and factors driving outcomes and trends.
Outline
- Current trends in M&A deal terms
- Factors driving trends
- Deal protection terms and structures commonly used today
- Recent cases
- Mock negotiation
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What market developments have driven the trends in deal terms?
- What recent cases have impacted deal term and negotiation techniques?
- What deal protection terms are commonly incorporated into today’s deals?
Following the speaker presentations, you'll have an opportunity to get answers to your specific questions during the interactive Q&A.
Faculty
Craig Menden
Partner
Cooley
His practice focuses on M&As. He has extensive experience in venture capital financings and related corporate and... | Read More
His practice focuses on M&As. He has extensive experience in venture capital financings and related corporate and securities transactions. He completed more than 100 M&As with an aggregate value of more than $37 billion. In 2012, he received recognition in the Legal 500: United States Edition in the Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts—M&A: Large Deals category.
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Jessica C. Pearlman
Partner
K&L Gates
Ms. Pearlman represents companies in various corporate, securities and finance matters, with an emphasis on... | Read More
Ms. Pearlman represents companies in various corporate, securities and finance matters, with an emphasis on M&As for both public and private clients, domestic and international. She chairs the Mergers & Acquisitions Market Trends Subcommittee of the M&A Committee of the ABA’s Section of Business Law and is a member of the Thomson Reuters Business Law Solutions Advisory Board.
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Managing Director
Shareholder Representative Services
As Co-Founder of Shareholder Representative Services, Mr. Koenig manages operations and heads the... | Read More
As Co-Founder of Shareholder Representative Services, Mr. Koenig manages operations and heads the Professional Team. He previously practiced law at some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, specializing in representing both public and venture-backed companies in M&As, debt and equity financings, company formations, and securities issuance and compliance.
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Director
Richards Layton & Finger
He focuses his practice on advising corporations, officers, directors, board committees and stockholders in connection... | Read More
He focuses his practice on advising corporations, officers, directors, board committees and stockholders in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations and corporate governance issues. A frequent speaker at corporate law seminars, Mr. Gentile is the author of numerous articles on aspects of Delaware corporate law. He is an appointed member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Corporate Laws.
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Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Mergers & Acquisitions
Hewlett-Packard Company
He leads HP's team of mergers and acquisitions attorneys.He has been representing HP in M&A transactions since... | Read More
He leads HP's team of mergers and acquisitions attorneys.He has been representing HP in M&A transactions since 2001, first as outside counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and from 2005 as an employee of HP. He received his JD/MBA from Duke University in 1994 and his BSEE from the U.S. Military Academy in 1985.
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