By: Trevor S. Norwitz , Sabastian V. Niles , Avi A. Sutton and Anna S. Greig Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Shareholder proposals are a popular and effective mechanism enabling shareholders to recommend or require that a company and/or its board...

By: Evan Hudson , Jeffrey S. Lowenthal , Jeffrey D. Uffner , and Michelle M. , Jewett Stroock & Stroock & Lavan The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, then markets continued a steep decline, as the coronavirus morphed from...

By: Patrick Yingling and Aleksandra Kopec King & Spalding What is the “middle market” of the U.S. leveraged loan market? While there is no checklist for what constitutes the middle market, the two basic parameters are that the borrower...

By: Stephen Gillespie and Amy Kennedy , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. 1. What are the typical debt components of acquisition financing in the United Kingdom? Acquisitions in the United Kingdom are typically financed either by way of leveraged loan...