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As COVID-19 – commonly known as coronavirus – continues to send shock waves through global markets and industries, dealmakers are considering whether they can terminate, or renegotiate, M&A transactions that they have entered into but have not yet...By: White and Williams LLP

Speculation about the impact of coronavirus and recent stock market volatility, including Thursday’s worst decline since the 1987 market crash, on M&A activity has intensified. Members of Ballard Spahr’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group report seeing the...By: Ballard Spahr LLP

It has been an active last week in the world of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). In addition to CFIUS’s publication of proposed regulations that would impose filing fees for parties’ submission of notices of...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Activism affects virtually everyone now—even those who may never have to deal with an activist - If you’re still nursing doubts about whether activism has a broad effect on M&A, it may be time to put them to bed. Seventy-eight percent of respondents...By: White & Case LLP

Trends in Material Adverse Change Clauses – Implications of Coronavirus on M&A Transactions - On M&A transactions deal certainty may be a key negotiation issue. Whilst a seller may be reluctant to concede a material adverse change (MAC) or material...By: White & Case LLP

Thinking through the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on M&A and deal terms. COVID-19 may cause buyers and sellers to reassess valuations, adjust pricing mechanisms and implement new methodologies for interim operations and crisis response...By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

On Nov. 21, the Queen Mary University of London School of International Arbitration, in partnership with the U.K.-based law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, released its ninth annual international arbitration survey focused on international construction...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

Half of the executives in our survey expect to do more deals if there's a downturn in 2020 than if there isn't. Dealmakers were optimistic heading into 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has changed things, but we believe that most of what we heard from...By: White & Case LLP

MAE. In any M&A transaction, a significant deterioration in the target’s business between signing and closing may upset the fundamental bargain struck between a seller and a buyer. M&A agreements typically address this risk through highly negotiated...By: Vinson & Elkins LLP

DXC Technology has announced it will sell its healthcare technology business to Veritas Capital....By: McGuireWoods LLP