Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
Practices MainOur M&A attorneys are recognized as among the finest in Delaware. Most of the partners in the Mergers and Acquisitions group are “leading lawyers” according to Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and many have been honored repeatedly in The Best Lawyers in America. Due to Potter Anderson’s national reputation concerning matters of Delaware corporate law, the firm regularly acts as Delaware counsel in both nationally and internationally prominent mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. The firm’s M&A team works closely with, and many practice in, our Corporate Counseling group, advising boards of directors, management and significant shareholders with respect to the negotiation, structuring and effectuation of mergers, acquisitions, asset sales, recapitalizations and responses to solicited and unsolicited acquisition proposals. Three members of our M&A team serve on the governing council of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, the source of virtually all annual revisions to the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Potter Anderson’s national reputation concerning matters of Delaware corporate law has enabled the firm to act regularly as Delaware counsel in both nationally and internationally prominent mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, divestitures, spin-offs and other types of business transactions.
In addition to our work as Delaware counsel, attorneys on the firm's M&A team frequently act as principal outside counsel to corporations or other business entities in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other types of business transactions involving non-public companies or non-public sales of assets or divisions by public companies for clients such as Kao Corporation and DuPont. This area of the firm's practice is international, national and regional in scope. Transactions and business combinations in this part of the firm's practice range from a few million dollars to a billion dollars or more. In such transactions, the firm renders advice on all aspects of the transaction including, for example, advice relating to financing, environmental matters, antitrust, human resources, tax, real estate, intellectual property, corporate governance and indemnification. We are able to draw upon the specific expertise of various attorneys in the firm in order to form a legal team to provide the full range of services necessary to consummate a transaction in today's complex legal and regulatory environment. The firm also has considerable experience in teaming with a client's in-house lawyers to provide the most efficient and cost-effective level of service for a particular transaction.
News
- August 17, 2023
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- February 27, 2023
- November 17, 2022
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- November 29, 2021
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- January 17, 2019
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- 2018
- Flood v. Synutra International, Inc., et al., No. 101, 2018 (Del. Oct. 9, 2018)October 9, 2018
- October 8, 2018
- Akorn, Inc., v. Fresenius Kabi AG, et al., C.A. No. 2018-0300-JTL (Del. Ch. Oct. 1, 2018) (Laster, V.C.)October 1, 2018
- August 17, 2018
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- May 30, 2018
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- CLIENT ALERT: Court of Chancery Accepts Unaffected Market Price As Fair Value In Post-Dell AppraisalVerition Partners Master Fund Ltd. v. Aruba Networks, Inc.February 16, 2018
- California State Teachers’ Retirement System v. AlvarezJanuary 25, 2018
- December 19, 2017
- Dell, Inc. v. Magnetar Global Event Driven Master Fund Ltd.December 14, 2017
- December 5, 2017
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- January 25, 2016
- November 17, 2015
- October 26, 2015
- Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC, No. 629, 2014 (Del. Oct. 2, 2015).October 5, 2015
- August 31, 2015
- May 28, 2015
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- September 2, 2014
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Publications
- Business Law Today, February 2023
- Delaware Business Court Insider, February 1, 2023
- March 17, 2022
- Winter 2022
- Business Law Today, January 2022
- Business Law Today, March 2021
- Business Law Today, March 2021
- March 1, 2021
- Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, May 27, 2020
- Business Law Today, March 26, 2020
- February 28, 2020
- January 31, 2020
- May 14, 2019
- Practice Points, ABA Litigation Section, February 1, 2019
- Practice Points, January 31, 2019
- April 26, 2018
- Law360, March 28, 2018
- Law360, March 12, 2018
- Deal Points: The Newsletter of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, Winter 2018
- December 6, 2017
- November 22, 2017
- Business Law Today, September 2017
- Law360, August 29, 2017
- Law360, July 31, 2017
- Law360, June 29, 2017
- Corporate Counsel Weekly, March 22, 2017
- Corporate Counsel Weekly, March 20, 2017
- The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, March 16, 2017
- The Temple 10-Q, Temple's Business Law Magazine, September 26, 2016
- Business Law Today, August 18, 2016
- Business Law Today, July 2016
- March 9, 2016
- Business Law Today, February 2016
- The Temple 10-Q: Temple's Business Law Magazine, November 9, 2015
- Bloomberg BNA Corporate Law & Accountability Report, January 9, 2015
- InSights, January 2014
- November 21, 2013
- April 19, 2013
- November 4, 2011
- March 23, 2011
- March 1, 2011
- February 1, 2011
- October 1, 2010
- August 1, 2010
- December 10, 2009
- June 14, 2008
- Michael B. Tumas, Michael K. Reilly, June 10, 2008
- Rethinking The Blasius Standard of Review: The Implications of Mercier v. Inter-Tel (Delaware), Inc.April 4, 2008
- March 1, 2008
- February 1, 2008
- October 1, 2007
- August 22, 2007
- Deal Points, Spring 2006
- April 1, 2002
- A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision raises two interesting points concerning the obligations of corporations that undertake mergers with subsidiariesJune 1, 2000
- May 1, 2000
Events & Speaking Engagements
- September 12, 2023
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- April 28, 2023
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- January 13, 2022
- December 7, 2021
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- December 1, 2020
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- December 3, 2019
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- March 29, 2019
- February 5, 2019
- January 29, 2019
- January 11, 2019
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- November 9, 2018
- October 18, 2018
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- April 13, 2018
- March 28, 2018
- December 5, 2017
- November 9, 2017
- October 19, 2017
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- November 2-4, 2016
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- Dallas, TX, February 11-12, 2016
- New York, NY, February 10, 2016
- New York, NY, January 14-15, 2016
- University of Delaware, November 19 - 20, 2014
- Los Angeles, CA, November 11, 2014