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Hummer fails to get Chinese approval

Posted on September 10, 2009
Believe me, I'm all for the Chinese central bank reducing its huge foreign exchange surplus by permitting Chinese companies to buy esssentially worthless US assets. That said, I'm not really surprised by this report. -bjmq

Cuomo taking a run at BAC?

Posted on September 09, 2009
The WSJ has an article on C1 today suggesting that New York will soon be charging BAC with state securities law violations in connection with its acquisition of Merrill Lynch last year. The article includes a link to a letter...

Stapled Financing in Poor Credit Markets

Posted on September 08, 2009
Foulds, a clerk for Vice Chancellor Parsons, has a paper on conflicts of interest in stapled financing. Stapled financing is a practice in which the seller's advisor offers potential acquirors financing to undertake an acquisition. Of course this is a...

Tinker Bell has her Say on SEC Shareholder Access Proposal

Posted on September 06, 2009
On Friday, The Dealbook helpfully linked to some of the comments submitted in response to the SEC's "shareholder access" proposal. There are lots of comments and they cover a wide variety of issues related to the access proposal. A general...

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Deals and Two-Sided Markets

Posted on September 04, 2009
Marc Rysman at BU has a nice introductory paper on two-sided markets (The Economics of Two-Sided Markets) appearing in the current Journal of Economic Perspectives. Two-sided markets are relatively common and often involve some level of network exteranality...

China Pre-merger Clearance paper

Posted on September 03, 2009
Mitnick, Yang and Emch have a recent paper assessing China's pre-merger clearance regime, The Dragon Rises: China's Merger Control Regime One Year On. Abstract: During the first year of existence of China?s Anti-Monopoly Law, much has been accomplished but much...

Marvel Lawsuit

Posted on September 01, 2009
According to Bloomberg, a suit has been filed ("POW") challenging Disney's acquisition of Marvel ("KABOOM"). The basic claim appears to be that Marvel's directors failed to meet their obligation under Revlon to cinduct a sales process that resulted in the...

Business Law Prof Wanted - Seattle University

Posted on August 27, 2009
Seattle University School of Law seeks to hire tenure-track or tenured faculty members to begin in the 2010-11 academic year in the areas of trusts & estates/estate planning (elder law a plus), corporate law/securities, and taxation. The school is interested...

Laster Nomination Goes to Senate

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Delaware Senate will meet on September 22 to vote to approve the nomination of J. Travis Laster to take up the Vice Chancellor's position vacated following the retirement of Vice Chancellor Lamb. -bjmq

Business Law Prof Wanted - University of Colorado

Posted on August 26, 2009
The University of Colorado Law School at Boulder is accepting applications and nominations to fill two endowed professorships. JOB DESCRIPTIONS: The first is in the area of business law, including business associations, securities law, corporate finance, entrepreneurial law, tax, and...

Business Law Prof Wanted - University of Arizona

Posted on August 22, 2009
The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law anticipates hiring several new lateral and entry-level faculty members over the coming year. Our goal is to find outstanding scholars and teachers who can bring new perspectives to extend the...

Cubs Sold

Posted on August 21, 2009
It?s not news to anyone who loves sports that Sam Zell?s Tribune Co. has been in negotiations to sell the Cubs to the Rickett family since 2007. Given the obvious White Sox-bias of the current administration in DC there wasn?t...

Travis Laster Nominated to Delaware Chancery Court

Posted on August 19, 2009
Governor Markell's nominating statement follows below: Markell Announces He Will Nominate J. Travis Laster To Serve On The Court of Chancery Wilmington Lawyer Spent His Career Litigating High-Stakes Disputes Before the Court WILMINGTON ? Governor Jack Markell announced Tuesday that...

It's Alive - Update from the Hummer Deal

Posted on August 19, 2009
OK, so I thought this deal would never really happen. I thought maybe that the Chinese government would have the good sense to look at some of the recent offshore acquisitions by Chinese companies and decide that wasting foreign exchange...

Chancery Court Shortlist

Posted on August 13, 2009
Here's the shortlist for the vacant Chancery Court position as reported by WBOC in Delaware: 1. Mary Johnston, a Superior Court judge since 2003 and previously the chief disciplinary counsel for the Delaware Supreme Court and a partner at Morris...

Recent Developments In Private Equity Deals

Posted on August 12, 2009
Courtesy of Hughes Hubbard MAW

Business Law Prof Wanted - Penn State

Posted on August 12, 2009
Penn State Law invites applications for tenured and tenure-track faculty positions. We seek distinguished scholars and entry-level candidates of exceptional promise in all fields, especially civil procedure, contracts, torts, commercial law, corporate law and finance, property, intellectual property, health law...

BAC's Problems Not Over, Yet

Posted on August 11, 2009
?You filed a rather uninformative, bare-bones complaint.? With that Federal Judge jed Rckoff refused to approve the settlement agreement reached between the SEC and BAC over disclosure problems related to bonuses paid to ML executives just prior to closing the...

Proskauer on Pay to Play

Posted on August 07, 2009
On August 3, 2009, the SEC proposed for comment a new rule under the Investment Advisers Act designed to address alleged ?pay to play? practices by investment advisers when seeking to manage assets of government entities. If adopted in its...

take a break.

Posted on August 07, 2009

back soon.

Posted on August 04, 2009
I'll be traveling in Asia for the next couple of weeks and posting only sporadically. In the meantime, here's some in-flight entertainment. -bjmq

BAC Settles with SEC Over Merrill Bonuses

Posted on August 04, 2009
Bank of America settled with the SEC over charges that it had made inadequate disclosures to its shareholders in connection with its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. The SEC charged that BAC misled investors about billions of dollars in bonuses that...

China's Premerger Review Statistics

Posted on August 03, 2009
On July 21, 2009, the Antimonopoly Bureau of China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released statistics on their premerger approval work. The Gerson Lerhman Group has an English language summary with links to the Chinese report is available here. Since August...

Help Wanted - Business Law Prof (Great White North Edition)

Posted on August 02, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN College of Law Tenure Track Faculty Positions The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan seeks candidates for up to three tenure-track positions beginning 1 July 2010. We anticipate that these appointments will be at the...

Vice Chancellor Lamb and his replacement

Posted on August 01, 2009
A found farewell to Vice Chancellor Lamb and then some scuttlebutt on a potential replacement in the Delaware papers: Those who confirmed they applied for the post are: Delaware Superior Court Judge Mary Miller Johnston; J. Travis Laster, a partner...

Say-on-Pay Starting to Move

Posted on July 31, 2009
Rep. Barney Frank?s ?say-on-pay? bill, also known as the Investor Protection Act of 2009 (Title IX, Subtitle D of the Financial Regulatory Reform package), is making some headway. It?s expected to get a vote on the floor of the House...

Executive Compensation Blog

Posted on July 31, 2009
Need to keep up with say-on-pay and the proposed rules on expanded comp disclosure? I'd start over at David Chun's Equilar CEO Blog. He spends all his time on these issues so you don't have to. The monthly newsletter is...

Help Wanted - Business Law Prof

Posted on July 30, 2009
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Tempe, Arizona Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Associate and Full Faculty Positions The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, under Dean Paul Schiff Berman, is poised for transformative growth in the quality and scope of its...

Chinese Auto News...

Posted on July 30, 2009
According to the China Car News, the NDRC has given Geely, a company that actually makes cars, the go ahead to bid for Ford's Volvo. No word on Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery's application to buy Hummer. -bjmq

Boatloads of Money?or Not

Posted on July 30, 2009
It is days like today that have corporate directors thanking the gods for the creation of the business judgment rule. Last year, Yahoo passed on a $48bn offer from Microsoft. Its market cap is now somewhere around $20bn and falling....

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