FCA Implications for M&A Transactions
How to Secure Advances to Fund Legal Fees
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 4 - How to Seal the Deal
Practical Training for Project Managers & Supervisors Two-Part Webinar Series: Part Two
Mergers and Acquisitions - Key Issues in Today's M&A Deals
Indemnification Provisions: What They Mean and What You Should Worry About
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 168-Dan Cogdell on criminal procedure issues in defending an individual prosecuted criminally under the FCPA
CorpCast Episode 2: Advancement 101
Purchase Agreements – Interview with Stephen Gulotta, Managing Member, Mintz Levin's New York Office
Have you received an offer to buy your company? Congratulations! But there is work ahead. The first step is to understand the specific deal structure, be it an asset sale, equity sale or merger. The owners should also work...more
This CLE course will guide deal counsel in drafting and negotiating asset purchase agreements. The panel will discuss legal considerations when negotiating representations and warranties, indemnities, covenants, closing...more
Please join Williams Mullen attorneys Jon Bliley and Rakesh Parikh as they discuss the latest trends in middle-market M&A, touching on several topics, including rep & warranty insurance and indemnification....more
Although a majority of buyers in real estate transactions rely on their own inspections of property, most real estate purchase and sale agreements contain some seller representations and warranties regarding key factual...more
On April 3, 2023, Vice Chancellor Nathan A. Cook of the Delaware Chancery Court dismissed the breach of contract claims by one pharmaceutical company (the “Seller”) against another (the “Buyer”) in connection with the Buyer’s...more
In mergers and acquisitions, the False Claims Act is an important consideration that both buyers and sellers need to address, particularly if the target company is the focus of an FCA investigation. It’s also important for...more
In an opinion of significance to M&A Practitioners, the Delaware Court of Chancery recently made it clear that Delaware law allows a buyer in an acquisition to “sandbag” a seller if the acquisition agreement allows for...more
Insurance brokerage deals surged in Q4 2021 and have continued to remain at peak levels throughout Q1 2022. Our team at Williams Mullen handled more than 50 of these transactions in the past two years alone, and, in doing so,...more
This is the sixth article in our series on selling the family business. If you need to catch up, please read our previous articles on advance planning, preliminary diligence, marketing, letters of intent, and indemnification...more
This is the fifth article in our series on selling the family business. For a refresher on how we got to this point, read our previous articles on letters of intent, marketing, and preliminary diligence....more
Market Trends: What You Need to Know - As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies - Inclusion of damage mitigation provisions in merger and acquisition...more
In Ashland LLC v. Samuel J. Heyman 1981 Continuing Trust for Lazarus S. Heyman (Del. Super. Ct. Nov. 10, 2020), the Complex Commercial Litigation Division of the Delaware Superior Court held that parties to a contract are...more
From regional to international $5-$100+ MM deals, our M&A team has extensive experience working with buyers, sellers, and investors on a wide variety of transactions in various industries including manufacturing, health care,...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the M&A market at every stage of the deal-making process – from complicating on-site visits and intensifying the diligence process to introducing valuation gaps (relative to pre-COVID-19...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe disruption, distress and uncertainty for companies across almost every industry. While this initially resulted in a substantial slow-down in the M&A market, transactional activity is...more
Indemnification obligations are used to allocate risk between a buyer and a seller in nearly all mergers and acquisitions transactions. In an acquisition of a distressed company or its assets, however, the seller may not be...more
Join Williams Mullen Partners Jon Bliley and Hal Johnson as they discuss the issues that may arise should you face a transaction with a delayed closing where a rep and warranty policy is the buyer’s sole source of...more
Crucial to any private equity seller is certainty: the certainty that a sale will be consummated at an agreed price and that any potential post-closing liability is fully understood in advance of distributing proceeds to...more
The Arkansas Oil Marketers Association Environmental Workshop was held on August 30th in Little Rock. I undertook a presentation titled: Identifying and Addressing Environmental Issues in Petroleum Marketing...more
Representation and warranty insurance (R&WI) has become an integral component of the M&A landscape and is here to stay. The data speaks for itself: in 2014, more than 700 U.S. R&WI policies were issued, which was double the...more
Whether in an auction or proprietary transaction, risk allocation has typically been a function of indemnities tied to reps and warranties and the type of credit supporting the type of supporting credit. Holdbacks, earnouts,...more