Shareholders, Takeovers, Board of Directors

Alberta Securities Commission Releases Reasons for Cease-Trading Retroactive Poison Pill

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 7/25/2025

On July 22, 2025, the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) released reasons for its decision to cease-trade a shareholder rights plan of Greenfire Resources Ltd. The rights plan had been adopted in response to the announcement...more

Trends in Dutch Public M&A 2022

A&O Shearman on 10/26/2022

The deal environment in the near future is likely to be challenging but we also see a substantial number of drivers for public takeovers such as strategic combinations when consolidation makes sense or is inevitable,...more

Hong Kong Regulatory Update - July 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/14/2020

This update provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the past three months relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx), and their advisers. In particular,...more

Poison Pill Deep Dive Series: The Inadvertent Triggering Exception

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/28/2020

The first of a six-part series examining six specific and evolving rights plan provisions. An increasing number of companies are choosing to adopt shareholder rights plans (otherwise known as “poison pills”) in response to...more

2019 Half-year in review: M&A legal and market developments

White & Case LLP on 1/24/2020

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

Has Australia's Takeovers Panel Turned the "Tap" on to More "Association" Proceedings?

Jones Day on 2/19/2018

The Situation: A major shareholder of Tap Oil Limited, a company listed on ASX, gave notice of an intention to spill the board, to remove all but one of the current directors, through a general meeting of shareholders. The...more