10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day – Final Thoughts on Pre - Acquisition Due Diligence in M&A
Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
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
If your medical practice is considering joining a larger group or hospital, it’s important to ask: what if the new relationship doesn’t work out? In some situations, an unwind agreement can provide a path back to...more
Member Jen Rubin is joined by Associate Tom Pagliarini to discuss the strategic use of restrictive covenants in private equity transactions. This episode is part of a series of conversations designed to help employers...more
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
Negotiating a basket mechanism into your merger or acquisition agreement? One of the questions it pays to ask (and answer) early on is how that basket mechanism will function with the retention amount you will be negotiating...more
Successful business owners know one tried-and-true method to grow and scale is through acquisition. In today’s competitive and complex marketplace, the competition is fierce for businesses with a proven track record and the...more
Periodically, particularly during economic downturns or times of market uncertainty, the private M&A market experiences a significant increase in the use of earnouts. As was the case following the Great Recession and the...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
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
A pivotal decision by a New York Appellate Division court holding that earnouts based on the future revenue of a dental practice violated the NY Fee Splitting Prohibition could substantially impact the structuring of health...more
Representations and warranties play a crucial role in business transactions and are commonly used in merger and acquisition agreements to allocate risk between sellers and buyers. Accurate representations and reliable...more
Selling a business in any environment can be challenging when planning is not addressed early in the M&A process. The challenges are heightened in the current environment where buyers are looking at multiple potential deals...more
Earlier this month, the ACC hosted an illuminating panel presentation on Life Sciences Litigation: A Look at Milestone Disputes & Recent Trends. Panelists included Lauri Mims and Jennifer Huber, both Partners at Keker Van...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
Bardy Diagnostics: Chancery confirms high bar for material adverse effect - The Delaware Court of Chancery was once again required to determine whether a potential buyer should be relieved of its obligation to acquire a...more
Delaware Court of Chancery holds that specific accounting principles in a merger agreement will govern, even though it may result in a different approach to accounting standards for determining the target’s tangible net worth...more
An “earnout” is a deal mechanism used in a merger and acquisition transaction (“M&A Transaction”) which structures the terms upon which a buyer agrees to pay additional consideration to the seller after the closing of the M&A...more
The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying market downturn have resulted in widespread uncertainty felt on a global scale – including in the M&A space. This webinar will explore ways M&A transactions – particularly due...more
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing unprecedented disruption to the global M&A market. Even in today’s uncertain environment, however, certain deals are still moving forward. To usher existing agreements to successful...more
Trends in Material Adverse Change Clauses – Implications of Coronavirus on M&A Transactions - On M&A transactions deal certainty may be a key negotiation issue. Whilst a seller may be reluctant to concede a material...more
In late 2019, COVID-19 (more commonly known as the coronavirus) began to spread throughout mainland China, and has since spread around the world, affecting numerous lives and businesses. As a result, companies spanning a wide...more
We set out in the attached Newsletter a number of interesting English court decisions and market developments which have taken place in the second half of 2019 and their impact on M&A transactions. This review looks at these...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
...The sale process doesn’t happen overnight, and there are many things before the sale that can greatly impact the sale. However, positioning your business in the best possible ways for sale has a wide range of meaning....more
After several strong years, the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market stumbled a bit in the last few months of 2018. According to early reports, the number of middle market M&A transactions completed in the U.S. declined by...more