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Speed Reading: Top 10 Ways to Address Antitrust Risk in M&A Transactions (PDF)

Speed Reading: Top 10 Ways to Address Antitrust Risk in M&A Transactions (PDF)

Outlines the top ten techniques for understanding, evaluating, and allocating antitrust risks in M&A agreements in a manner that may allow the execution of definitive deal documents to go forward.


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Publisher :LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis
Format: Electronic, 12 Pages , PDF

ISBN: 9781422429983

9/17/2012
 
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    The antitrust risk is on the buyer to take agreed steps to obtain antitrust approvals, and some of the risk is allocated to the seller by allowing the parties to walk away from the deal if the most extreme risks materialize. This article outlines the top ten techniques for understanding, evaluating, and allocating antitrust risks in M&A agreements in a manner that may allow the execution of definitive deal documents to go forward.

     

    Frank Aquila is the co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's global corporate practice. Mr. Aquila has a broad multidisciplinary practice that includes extensive experience in negotiated and unsolicited mergers and acquisitions; complex cross-border transactions; global joint ventures; private equity transactions; and corporate governance matters. Mr. Aquila was named a "Dealmaker of the Year" by The American Lawyer in 2009, received the 2010 Atlas Award as the Global M&A Lawyer of the Year and was named by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) to their "Directorship 100" – one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance and inside the boardroom. He is also a two-time winner of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement (2005 and 2010). In 2009 Mr. Aquila was selected by the American Bar Association as a "Legal Rebel" – one of the profession's 50 leading innovators.

     

    Melissa Sawyer is a partner in the Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Ms. Sawyer is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty of Columbia Law School. Her practice has focused on a variety of corporate, M&A and private equity matters in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Sawyer was featured in "The Facebook of Wall Street's Future" (New York Times, October 3, 2007) as one of Wall Street's "next generation of deal makers." She received her B.A. degree from Washington & Lee University and her J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School.

     

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