The implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is a notoriously misunderstood doctrine. It can be invoked much less often than most people think, and its application is highly state-specific. A recent ruling from the...more
So-called Con Ed provisions emerged as M&A practitioners’ response to Consolidated Edison, Inc. v. Northeast Utilities, a 2005 case in which the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that stockholder plaintiffs did not have...more