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AI: Using Natural Language Processing to Predict M&A Participants

Deal Lawyers

This recent SSC/Intralinks blog discusses how natural language processing (NLP), an AI-powered machine learning technology, may be about to transform M&A.

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Will 2024 Bring More Unsolicited and Hostile M&A?

Deal Lawyers

I’m not usually one for fortune-telling, but this recent Freshfields blog makes some well-supported predictions for M&A trends in 2024. Among them is the expectation that an increase in hostile M&A is in our future — driven by board room optimism on both sides of the table.

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Earnouts in Life Sciences M&A: Consider These Tips

Deal Lawyers

As this Cooley M&A blog notes, earnouts are a much more common — and high-stakes — feature of life sciences M&A deals than non-life sciences deals, which only included an earnout 21% of the time according to SRS Acquiom’s 2023 Life Sciences M&A Study. Vice Chancellor Laster once […]

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Deal Lawyers Download Podcast — 2023 Survey of Middle Market M&A

Deal Lawyers

Late last month, I blogged about Seyfarth Shaw’s recently published “Middle Market M&A SurveyBook,” now in its ninth edition.

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The Stats on Special M&A Synergy Awards

Deal Lawyers

Here’s my recent post on The Advisors’ Blog on CompensationStandards.com regarding M&A synergy awards: WTW’s Global Executive Compensation Analysis Team recently conducted a study of the 100 largest U.S. mergers from 2018 to 2022 focused on the use of special synergy awards.

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M&A Voluntary Self-Disclosure Safe Harbor: Tips for Acquirers

Deal Lawyers

Last week, John blogged about the DOJ’s new “Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy” intended to incentivize voluntary self-disclosure of wrongdoing uncovered during the M&A process, which Deputy AGs had previewed in a speech and multiple prior comments.

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Crossover Witnesses in M&A Disputes: Mitigating Risk Upfront

Deal Lawyers

This Freshfields blog discusses an oft-overlooked issue in post-closing M&A disputes — crossover witnesses.

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