We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
CHPS Podcast Episode 5: The Future of Federal Procurement
Expert or Arbitrator? — PE Pathways Podcast
The LathamTECH Podcast — Getting Deals Done: Tackling Antitrust Challenges in Tech M&A
How IP Can Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
Strategies for Business Resilience in Uncertain Times
Daily Compliance News: May 20, 2025, The What Could Go Wrong Edition
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Investors Need to Know
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
Daily Compliance News: April 25, 2025, The Trouble in Travel Edition
When selling a private company, Sellers understandably focus on providing bidders with a comprehensive data room packed with detailed documents and information about every aspect of their business. They expect bidders to pore...more
In the complex world of business transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions (M&A), purchase price adjustments are a critical concept that help ensure fairness and accuracy in the final transaction price. Purchase...more
Privately held businesses are rarely bought or sold “as is.” Buyers of most businesses usually expect the sellers to make a comprehensive set of “representations” or “reps.” In other words, statements about the business that...more
Representation & Warranty Insurance (“RWI”) is specialty insurance coverage purchased for M&A deals which provides third-party insurance coverage for certain breaches of the Seller’s representations and warranties in the...more
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) has become an increasingly common feature in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, serving as a risk management tool for both buyers and sellers. RWI facilitates...more
Delaware is well known as a favored jurisdiction for mergers and acquisition deals, and for good reason — the jurisdiction’s business-friendly legal environment offers numerous efficiencies and predictability. Attorneys and...more
In HControl Holdings v. Antin Infrastructure Partners, a Delaware court recently held that the buyer could terminate without closing its agreement to acquire a target company for $250 million. Due to a $215,000 ownership...more
In this Upside episode, Farella's Greg LeSaint and Erica Villanueva discuss how incorporating representation and warranty insurance into your acquisition from the buy-side or sell-side can have tremendous benefits in dealing...more
Delaware Clarifies “Pro-Sandbagging” Stance by Mark Tarallo and Mary Moran In almost every M&A transaction, the parties spend some time discussing (if not heavily negotiating) the right of the buyer to bring claims against...more
Popular in the M&A world, representations and warranties insurance (RWI), is now more than just a way for buyers to stand out in an auction process, but a requirement to stay competitive within it. In today’s episode, Lynda...more
Delaware Chancery Court awards specific performance after finding that buyer failed to demonstrate a material adverse effect or ordinary course breach by target and that buyer failed to use reasonable best efforts to obtain...more
In AB Stable VIII LLC v. Maps Hotels and Resorts One LLC, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a precedential decision addressing whether a buyer could walk away from an M&A transaction because the target company’s responses...more
In this short, three-part video series, Greenberg Glusker Partners Andrew Apfelberg and Brian Davidoff discuss important financial considerations for health, beauty and wellness companies in the wake of a pandemic. Part three...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily disrupted M&A activity around the globe and many projects have been put on hold. However, as soon as the pandemic is beyond its peak and lockdown measures have been eased, sellers and buyers...more
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the measures being taken at every level to contain the spread thereof is a rapidly evolving public health and humanitarian issue. Naturally, COVID-19 and its...more
Private equity funds have supplied much of the capital injected into the oil and gas exploration and production sector over the last decade. These investors will typically seek to identify, acquire, operate, enhance, and...more
On December 18, 2019, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a 119-page post-trial memorandum opinion 1) rejecting a buyer's argument that the target company had breached representations and warranties in the parties' merger...more
In the second half of 2018, the Delaware courts once again produced decisions that will guide M&A transactions in the future. Three cases affecting US M&A stood out in 2018....more
Before a major financing transaction or the sale of a company, the investor or buyer will want to see most of the company’s legal and financial documents. This is called “due diligence.” If I asked you to share with me all of...more
Contemplating a merger? Making an acquisition? Doing a deal with another company can be challenging enough, without having to take on legal liability for the behavior of a company’s leadership, particularly where success of...more
On December 7, 2018, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery's decision in Akorn, Inc. v. Fresenius Kabi AG , C.A. No. 2018-0300-JTL, which upheld, for the first time under Delaware law, the ability of a...more
On October 1, in Akorn v. Fresenius Kabi, the Delaware Court of Chancery for the first time found that a material adverse effect — or MAE — had occurred in a merger transaction, which, combined with other breaches of the...more
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the digital era increasingly involve a number of significant intellectual property (“IP”) issues. It is critical to a successful M&A transaction for in-house counsel to involve experienced IP...more
A Selection of Evolving Trends in Mergers and Aquisitions - Buyers are aggressively targeting companies with differentiated technology and strategically-positioned intellectual property....more
Acquisition agreements frequently contain maximum limits or “caps” on the sellers’ potential liability for losses resulting from breaches of the sellers’ and target company’s representations and warranties. However, the...more