Category Archives: Mergers & Acquistions
Top Five Traps for the Unwary in Spin-Offs
A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller companies focused on a single business tend to outperform their more diversified peers. A primary vehicle for these breakups has been the spin-off transaction, in which a publicly traded …
Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans Under Scrutiny
The National Law Review recently published an article, Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans Under Scrutiny, written by the Financial, Corporate Governance and M&A Litigation Group of Barnes & Thornburg LLP: For more than a decade, corporate officers and directors of publicly traded companies have relied on trading plans, known as Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, …
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