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R. Samuel Snider, Erik L. Belenky, and Rachel Miles on the Poison Pill Takeover Defense in Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Airgas, Inc. (PDF)

R. Samuel Snider, Erik L. Belenky, and Rachel Miles on the Poison Pill Takeover Defense in Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Airgas, Inc. (PDF)

Air Products' takeover bid for Airgas was one of the most public and protracted contests for corporate control in the history of Delaware jurisprudence.


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Publisher :LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis
Format: Electronic, 6 Pages , PDF

ISBN: 9781422429983

7/19/2011
 
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    Air Products' takeover bid for Airgas was one of the most public and protracted contests for corporate control in the history of Delaware jurisprudence. Airgas board's refusal to redeem a poison pill. The case highlights one of the fundamental corporate governance issues -- at what point should a board allow its stockholders to make their own decision as to whether a hostile bid fairly values their shares in the target company?

     

    Sam Snider is Vice President and Lead Acquisition Counsel for LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He is responsible for all aspects of LexisNexis global mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring activities, including numerous acquisitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition, he leads the Outsourcing and Offshoring and U.S. Legal Compliance teams within the LexisNexis legal department. He is a frequent writer and speaker on corporate law and M&A matters and was named a Georgia Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers-Rising Star Edition.

     

    Erik Belenky is a partner in Paul Hastings' Corporate practice, focusing principally on mergers and acquisitions. He represents public and private companies, special committees of independent directors and financial advisors in the full range of domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances, and corporate restructurings. He also regularly advises boards of directors on corporate governance matters. Erik is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and has written articles in several publications on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He is listed as a leading lawyer in M&A by Chambers USA and Legal 500 US. He was also recently named by the Fulton County Daily Report as one of 12 Lawyers to Watch: Georgia Lawyers Under 40 on the Rise.

     

    Brooke Russ is an associate in Paul Hastings' Corporate practice. She received her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2009, where she was the administrative editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law.

     

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