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Earnouts in M&A Transactions: Recent Decisions From Delaware

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In 2024, Delaware courts issued multiple instructive decisions on earnout provisions in life sciences M&A transactions. ...more

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Delaware Law Alert: Efforts Standards in Life-Sciences Earnout Provisions

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In two significant recent opinions, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled against the buyers of life sciences companies, holding that they failed to apply commercially reasonable efforts to achieve earnout milestones. In Fortis...more

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Yonder Window Breaks: Earnout Covenants in Acquisitions

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Earnouts, which provide sellers payouts if certain post-closing milestones are reached, have become increasingly popular in recent M&A transactions given today’s uncertain regulatory and financial climate.  Inflation, supply...more

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COVID-19 and Merger Litigation: Takeaways After Two Years

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Before the pandemic, it was generally accepted that establishing an MAE was very difficult—indeed, only one case in Delaware, 2018's Akorn v. Fresenius Kabi, had ever found that an MAE occurred. Following the pandemic, this...more

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“Commercially Reasonable Best Efforts”: B.C. Court Provides Guidance in Context of Purchase and Sale Contract

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In Sutter Hill Management Corporation v. Mpire Capital Corporation (Sutter), the British Columbia Court of Appeal found that the acquiror of an Abbotsford, B.C. care home had breached the purchase and sale agreement by...more

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Buyer Potentially Liable for Earnout Even Though it had Right to Operate Target in its Discretion

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In Shareholder Representative Services LLC v Albertsons Companies, Inc., the aggrieved former shareholders of DineInFresh, Inc., d/b/a Plated, sought recovery of earnout consideration from Plated’s acquirer, Defendant,...more

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The ‘Materiality Scrape’ Provision What’s Market?

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Market Trends: What You Need to Know - Over the past almost 15 years covered by the ABA studies, materiality scrapes have morphed from being a somewhat uncommon provision, seen in about 14% of transactions in 2005, to...more

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Damages for Reps and Warranties Breaches

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When one party to an M&A agreement alleges that the other breached its representations and warranties, the damages analysis can be complex, depending on the terms of the agreement. Generally, a claim for indemnification due...more

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The Perils of Using Baseball Arbitration to Resolve RWI Policy Disputes

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In the world of M&A and private equity deals, buyer-side representation and warranties insurance (RWI) transfers the risk of a seller’s representation to an insurer. To adequately safeguard the insurer, it therefore becomes...more

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Value Claim: Non-Recurring Impact of Unknown Business or Operational Issue

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RWI valuation claims often arise from a breach of financial statement representation and warranties where the buyer asserts that the transaction was over-valued because prior earnings, on which the purchase price was based,...more

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Breach vs. Loss

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Does a seller’s breach of representations and warranties in a merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction automatically entitle the buyer to compensation?...more

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Delaware Confirms the High Threshold for Material Adverse Effect Claims and Interprets ‘Commercially Reasonable Efforts’

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A year after Akorn v. Fresenius (Akorn case), the first Delaware case holding that a party was entitled to terminate a merger agreement based on a material adverse effect (MAE), the Delaware Court of Chancery, in Channel...more

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