Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Belgium: What Can Your Company Achieve By The Acquisition Of Its Own Shares? – Mondaq

Besides the acquisition of own shares, the law also provides in a technique whereby the company does not acquire its own shares, but only reimburses shares outside the capital reduction. It concerns the capital redemption in which a given part … Continue reading

Belgium: Tax Aspects Of An Acquisition Of Own Shares – Mondaq

Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances. Anyone with a passing knowledge of derivatives law will be aware of the controversy created by section 2(a)(iii) of the ISDA Master Agreement. English Court Of Appeal Interprets The ISDA …

As Dewey Turmoil Deepens, Top M&A Lawyer Defects – Wall Street Journal

Morton A. Pierce, the 63-year-old vice chairman of the firm and one of its top mergers and acquisitions lawyers, is moving to the New York-based law firm White & Case LLP with seven other partners. The exit of Mr. Pierce, … Continue reading

Emerging Markets Drawing Plenty of M&A Interest – Wall Street Journal

In a bleak mergers-and-acquisitions landscape, there’s at least one bright spot: China, Brazil and other emerging markets. In a survey of hundreds of corporate executives and others around the world commissioned by U.K. law firm Clifford …

Haemonetics To Pay $551M For Pall’s Blood Business – site.law360.com

Law360, New York (May 03, 2012, 5:53 PM ET) — Health care company Haemonetics Corp. said in a Thursday filing that it will pay $551 million for Pall Corp.’s blood filtration and processing line in an effort to take a … Continue reading

Deals of the day — mergers and acquisitions – Reuters UK

May 3 (Reuters) – The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European … as part of the trader’s drive to expand into physical assets. ** Merger talks between law firms Dewey & LeBoeuf and SNR Denton collapsed on …

Hyosung Exec Cops Plea Over Altered Merger Probe Docs – site.law360.com

Law360, New York (May 03, 2012, 3:12 PM ET) — An executive accused of tampering with documents submitted in a federal antitrust review of Nautilus Hyosung Holdings Inc.’s proposed acquisition of a rival automated teller machine maker will plead guilty … Continue reading

NHHI Unit Exec Cops Plea Over Altered Docs In Merger Probe – site.law360.com

Law360, New York (May 03, 2012, 3:12 PM ET) — An executive accused of tampering with documents submitted in a federal antitrust review of Nautilus Hyosung Holdings Inc.’s proposed acquisition of a rival automated teller machine maker will plead guilty … Continue reading

Dewey Breakup Quickens as M&A Chief, London Litigators Leave – San Francisco Gate

May 3 (Bloomberg) — Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, which has lost more than a third of its partners in recent weeks, saw its merger and acquisition chief and a … a spokesman for Dewey said. The law firm is preparing … Continue reading

The Walt Disney Company : Key partner at law firm Dewey defects to rival – 4-traders (press release)

A key mergers and acquisitions partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf said on Thursday he was leaving to join a rival firm, adding to the imperiled law firm’s woes. Morton Pierce, a Dewey vice chairman, said he will be joining White … Continue reading