The 27th Annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute was held on March 19 and 20 in New Orleans.  As in prior years, panelists included preeminent M&A, financing and securities practitioners and members of the Delaware judiciary, as well as prominent investment bankers, proxy solicitors, public relations advisors and journalists.  During the coming days, we will highlight in a series of posts three issues among the many topics discussed during the conference.  Today’s topic: appraisal arbitrage and recently proposed amendments to DGCL § 262.
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On April 16, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. EST, Cleary Gottlieb partner Arthur H. Kohn will participate in The Conference Board‘s Governance Watch panel discussion, “Do ‘Golden Leash’ Board Arrangements Create Impermissible Conflicts of Interest?”

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On March 20, 2015, Cleary Gottlieb partner Christopher E. Austin participated in Tulane University Law School’s 27th Annual Corporate Law Institute. Mr. Austin moderated the panel “What’s ‘Market’ in Merger Agreements.” The panel focused on the issues that arise in negotiating the key provisions of public company merger agreements and differing ways of resolving those

We were glad to see so many of you in Berkeley for a lively and interactive roundtable discussion on “Antitrust, Governance, M&A in 2015: Challenges and Conundrums for the West Coast” among senior personnel from law firms, in-house legal departments, financial advisory firms, proxy solicitors, proxy advisory firms, the media, the Delaware Court of Chancery,

On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Cleary Gottlieb and The Conference Board hosted the webcast “Planning for Divestitures” from 3-4 PM. The webcast was moderated by Marcel Bucsescu, Assistant Director of The Conference Board Governance Center, and the panelists were Paul M. Tiger, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, Daniel Ilan, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb and Svilen Karaivanov,

On Thursday, November 20, 2014, Cleary Gottlieb and The Conference Board hosted a Governance Watch Webcast on Global Investigations from 3-4 PM. The webcast was moderated by Marcel Bucsescu, Assistant Director of The Conference Board Governance Center, and the panelists were Jonathan Kelly, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb, Jonathan S. Kolodner, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb and