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BakerHostetler will present data regarding Texas’ robust M&A market each quarter, with useful comparisons to the U.S. market overall. The alert focuses on M&A volume and value, identifies the most active industries, and includes market commentary from our Texas-based M&A attorneys. M&A activity in the U.S. and Texas continued its decline, reflected by a significant drop in number of deals and deal value (although somewhat more modestly in the Texas market). Investor concerns about the mid- to....

On June 30, 2020, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted Vertical Merger Guidelines (Vertical Guidelines) to fill a long-standing gap in the competition agencies’ published merger enforcement standards. But even after extensive public comments, the Vertical Guidelines leave as many questions open as they resolve....By: BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler presents its inaugural Texas M&A Trends alert. Each quarter, we will present data regarding Texas’ robust M&A market, with useful comparisons to the U.S. market overall. The alert focuses on M&A volume and value, identifies the most...By: BakerHostetler

On Tuesday, April 7, we issued an alert in connection with New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Executive Order No. 202.6 – Continuing Temporary Suspension and Modification of Laws Relating to the Disaster Emergency (EO 202.6), which, among other...By: BakerHostetler

M&A update – Sellers and buyers who have completed transactions within the past several years should take note of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order 202.8, tolling the statutes of limitations for all claims through April 19....By: BakerHostetler

As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continues to spread across the globe, merger and acquisition transaction participants need to consider the impact it is having on M&A transactions both in terms of process and timeline as well as in terms of...By: BakerHostetler

It’s been awhile since we’ve addressed attempts at bringing class action disability claims (September 27, 2013 and March 6, 2014), but as we’ve noted in the past, they make poor candidates for class action treatment....By: BakerHostetler

“Be careful as you go down the stairs, officer. An alligator lives in my basement.” Police in Madison Township, Ohio, last week found a 5-foot gator penned in the basement of a family home....By: BakerHostetler

On Feb. 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenged Edgewell Personal Care’s proposed $1.37 billion acquisition of Harry’s. Edgewell owns Schick and another brand, making it one of the two leading manufacturers of wet shave razors....By: BakerHostetler

Wage and hour law remains a compliance conundrum for most employers. And now that Colorado has issued a new wage order titled, Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order #36 (“COMPS Order”), Colorado employers are scrambling to prepare to...By: BakerHostetler