Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights January 25, 2011 Client Update Investing In or Acquiring Troubled Banks: The Problem of Holding Company Debt In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capita... January 25, 2011 Client Update Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and for the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates - January 2011 The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds th... November 23, 2010 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Invalidates Airgas Bylaw Amendment In a practical ruling that explicitly acknowledges the relevance of “[p]ractice and understanding in the real world,” ... November 17, 2010 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Two Comment Letters to the SEC on Key Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Rulemaking Yesterday we submitted two comment letters to the SEC on key executive compensation and corporate governance rulemaking th... November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Proposed Rules Relating to Shareholder Approval of Executive Compensation and Golden Parachute Compensation (the “Proposal”) We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission... November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Subtitle E of Title IX–Accountability and Executive Compensation under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission... October 11, 2010 Client Update Delaware Court Permits Stockholders to Shorten Term of Airgas Staggered Board The Delaware Chancery Court has upheld the validity of a bylaw amendment adopted by the stockholders of Airgas, Inc. at it... October 8, 2010 Client Update Top-Up Options – Looking Better and Better As the percentage of tender offers in friendly transactions has risen in recent years, so too has use of so-called “top-... October 4, 2010 Client Update SEC Stays Proxy Access Pending Court Review The SEC has stayed the effect of newly adopted proxy access Rule 14a-11 and the related amendments to the Commission’s r... September 27, 2010 Client Update Reverse Termination Fees: A Resurgence -- The Deal Video Interview In the few years before the credit crisis, financial buyers often arranged to buy businesses in deals that required a term... Load More
January 25, 2011 Client Update Investing In or Acquiring Troubled Banks: The Problem of Holding Company Debt In the wake of the recent purchase of AmericanWest Bank by a joint venture between a Goldman Sachs fund and Oaktree Capita...
January 25, 2011 Client Update Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds Under the HSR Act and for the Prohibition of Interlocking Directorates - January 2011 The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds th...
November 23, 2010 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Invalidates Airgas Bylaw Amendment In a practical ruling that explicitly acknowledges the relevance of “[p]ractice and understanding in the real world,” ...
November 17, 2010 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Two Comment Letters to the SEC on Key Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Rulemaking Yesterday we submitted two comment letters to the SEC on key executive compensation and corporate governance rulemaking th...
November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Proposed Rules Relating to Shareholder Approval of Executive Compensation and Golden Parachute Compensation (the “Proposal”) We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission...
November 16, 2010 Articles & Books Comments on Subtitle E of Title IX–Accountability and Executive Compensation under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act We are submitting this letter in response to the solicitation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission...
October 11, 2010 Client Update Delaware Court Permits Stockholders to Shorten Term of Airgas Staggered Board The Delaware Chancery Court has upheld the validity of a bylaw amendment adopted by the stockholders of Airgas, Inc. at it...
October 8, 2010 Client Update Top-Up Options – Looking Better and Better As the percentage of tender offers in friendly transactions has risen in recent years, so too has use of so-called “top-...
October 4, 2010 Client Update SEC Stays Proxy Access Pending Court Review The SEC has stayed the effect of newly adopted proxy access Rule 14a-11 and the related amendments to the Commission’s r...
September 27, 2010 Client Update Reverse Termination Fees: A Resurgence -- The Deal Video Interview In the few years before the credit crisis, financial buyers often arranged to buy businesses in deals that required a term...