Editor’s Note: J.W. Verret is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University School of Law and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center’s Financial Markets Working Group. This post is based on a legal backgrounder by Professor Verret published by the...

Editor’s Note: David A. Katz is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and complex securities transactions. This post is based on a client memorandum by Mr. Katz and David K. Lam. The...

Editor’s Note: Jeffrey Stein is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group at King & Spalding LLP. This post is based on a King & Spalding Board Leadership Advisory by Mr. Stein along with E. William Bates II, C. William Baxley, Andrew C. Hruska, and...

Editor’s Note: This post is based on a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP client memorandum by Annette L. Nazareth, member of the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell, along with Lanny A. Schwartz, Gerard Citera, and Robert L.D. Colby. Taking...

Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Anusha Chari and Paige Ouimet, Assistant Professors of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Linda Tesar, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Foreign acquisitions...