Goodwin Procter

New hires were made across the finance, PE, M&A and private capital practices in New York, Washington DC and Dallas

The proposed changes reduce the likelihood of stockholder litigation that has little or no chance of benefitting stockholders

Skadden, Latham & Watkins, Sullivan & Cromwell and Goodwin are among top legal advisers for companies in M&A transactions being scrutinised by the UK Competition and Markets Authority

Lawyers at Davis Polk and Goodwin say that revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act’s pre-merger notification rules mean businesses that want to move forward with certain US deals will have to produce more information earlier

Updates from three regulators in September about how they intend to analyse bank merger approvals are unlikely to make mergers easier

David Bernstein of Goodwin Procter argues that by enabling boards of directors to delegate the responsibility of managing a business to shareholders, the Delaware legislature may have created more problems than it has solved

There has been a significant uptick in US law firms making M&A hires in London and setting up shop in Belgium — here’s why

The solution may require the Delaware Legislature to amend the General Corporation Law to allow shareholders to sue for damages in merger agreement breaches