Io9.com reports on a study funded by Dunkin' Donuts and Career Builder to analyze the coffee-consumption patterns of America's professionals. Shockingly, lawyers are not even among the top 15 professions in terms of coffee drinking, though they apparently are most likely to drink their coffee black.
Posted on: March 5, 2014
Details can be found at bergerharris.com.
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Tag: Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Courts, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Mergers and Acquisitions
Posted on: March 5, 2014
Details here.
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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Limited Liability Companies
Posted on: March 5, 2014
In several recent decisions, the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed a number of issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings. In In re Orchard Enterprises, Inc. Stockholder Litig., the Delaware Court of Chancery held that the entire fairness standard of review applied to plaintiffs’ challenge of a going-private merger by a controller, even though the merger had been conditioned on approval by both a majority-of-the-minority of the company’s stockholders and a special committee. In Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. v. Spanish Broadcasting Sys.
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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Corporations, Courts, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Legislation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities
By: Lisa R. Stark
Posted on: March 3, 2014
We have previously looked at issues surrounding the contractual enforceability of settlement agreements. It is common, perhaps prevalent, for settlement agreements in contentious litigation matters to include a confidentiality provision. A typical example might read as follows:
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Tag: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appeals, Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, Contracts, Labor and Employment, Social Media, Technology & Law
Posted on: February 28, 2014
Berger Harris partner Lisa Stark has been published in Business Law Today, a publication of the American Bar Association. The piece, entitled "Revisiting MAE/MAC Clauses in M&A after Cooper Tire, Huntsman, and Osram," appeared in the February 2014 issue. Stark writes:
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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Commercial Litigation, Corporations, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Professional News
By: Lisa R. Stark