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16Dec

Blog: Delaware Puts the Conduct of Business Covenant on Center Stage in COVID-Related M&A Dispute

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In the months following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a slew of parties filed lawsuits in US courts relating to M&A transactions that were signed prior to March 2020 and that buyers were seeking to terminate as a result of the pandemic. In these lawsuits, buyers commonly alleged one (or both) of the following as justification for their failure to close: (i) that the target suffered an MAE as a result of COVID-19’s impact on its business; or (ii) that target materially breached the conduct...
By: Cooley LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/blog-delaware-puts-the-conduct-of-35822/

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