Shareholders, Repurchases

In Management Equity Repurchases, Who Determines Fair Market Value?

Goodwin on 7/28/2025

A majority of private equity firms prefer for their boards to value departing management’s equity, but approaches vary based on the applicable circumstances. When management equity holders leave a private equity-backed...more

SEC Heightens Issuers' Share Repurchase Disclosure Requirements

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/24/2023

On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the disclosure requirements relating to issuers’ repurchases of their equity securities. As outlined below, the amendments require additional...more

V&E Quarterly Securities & ESG Updates - Summer 2023

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 7/13/2023

Welcome to Vinson & Elkins’ Securities and ESG Updates. Our aim is to provide insights into notable developments in securities reporting and the environmental, social and governance space over the quarter and, where...more

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/14/2022

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

Social Costs of Dividends and Repurchases

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 4/15/2019

In a recent paper, referenced above, author JB Heaton analyzes the extent to which the ability of corporations to return capital to their shareholders through dividends and repurchases results in substantial social costs. As...more

Seventh Circuit Holds Under Indiana Law, Company Was Allowed to Vote Its Own Shares

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 7/17/2015

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a district court decision holding that under Indiana law, an Indiana corporation could vote its own outstanding preferred shares. In 1999, Emmis...more

Delaware Supreme Court: No Duty to Buy Out Minority Shareholders in Closely Held Corporations

Snell & Wilmer on 2/5/2014

The Delaware Supreme Court recently considered whether the directors of a closely held corporation had a duty under common law fiduciary principles to repurchase a minority shareholder’s shares. The court also considered...more

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