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Drawing on Latham’s Sixth Private M&A Market Study, we explore trends and developments in consideration mechanics and deal conditionality. Uncertainty has been a significant market factor in 2019....By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Companies must mitigate risks to antitrust privilege posed by cross-border megadeals and increased regulatory demand for documentation. A strong M&A market has driven a high volume of megadeals across the globe in recent years, with acquirers...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Buyers’ best defence against M&A fraud requires rigorous, pre-closing due diligence — when fraud is suspected, deal teams should seek legal advice and proceed with caution. Recent high-profile fraud cases gravely illustrate how a failure to detect...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

In a spin-off, a public company separates one or more of its businesses into new, publicly traded companies. For the public company that initiates it, a spin-off can achieve a number of critical business and financial objectives, including:...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

The new state law reflects a trend among other states including New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, and Rhode Island to enact noncompetition legislation. Key Points: Under Washington State’s new noncompetition law, effective January 1, 2020:...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

How can private equity firms identify and mitigate inherited liability risk from vulnerable portfolio companies? Ongoing big ticket regulatory fines coupled with high profile corporate veil cases indicate that private equity deal teams must remain...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

New US Labor Department regulation, to take effect January 1, 2020, raises the minimum base salary for exempt employees to US$35,568. Key Points: The new regulation: ..Increases the minimum base salary for exempt employees under the Fair Labor...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Adherence to secrecy, pre-announcement preparations, realistic expectations-setting, and strategic plans for taking control are keys to P2P deal success. The deal market has seen a resurgence in public to private (P2P) transactions - global P2P...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

CFIUS has offered a one-month comment period for proposed rulemaking to implement provisions of CFIUS legislation passed in August 2018. More than a year ago, in August 2018, US President Donald Trump signed the Foreign Investment Risk Review...By: Latham & Watkins LLP

Nach einem aktuellen Urteil des Verwaltungsgerichtshofs Baden-Württemberg war die vorzeitige Ausnutzung des Baurechts nach § 33 des Baugesetzbuchs (BauGB) bei sog. planreifen Bebauungsplänen bislang mit beachtlichen Risiken verbunden (siehe Vorsicht...By: Latham & Watkins LLP