Another slow week (or two, but who’s counting?) on the blog posting front. Tweets are more resistant to mid-summer doldrums, as evidenced by the following:
Simpson Thacher survey of recent public M&A deals finds that the dichotomy between PE and strategic buyers is disappearing: optionality for all? Maybe not: the DealProf discusses the recent BankRate deal [...]
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The Week’s Links
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The Week’s Links
Things are quiet around here. Too quiet. But there’s lots of good stuff in this week’s collection of links:
Milbank offers a concise overview of debt exchange offers. My take: hot topic, more common, but still rare because it’s so unwieldy compared to the alternatives and carries a stigma.
A&P article on the jurisdictional basis for the [...]
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Tweet Dump
Thanks to Martin Wolf, this week we’re back to a Tweet Dump. Four helpful client memos and one excellent FT column:
Helpful overview from DLA of at-the-market offerings. Unlike some current practices memos, this one actually includes a list of recent deals. That should be a required feature in any current practices memo.
FT’s Martin Wolf on why [...]
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Best Client Memos
This week’s Tweet Dump consists entirely of links to good client memos, so for now we’ll dump the Tweet Dump title and return to this feature’s kinder, gentler pre-Twitter title.
Sign of the Times: Weil Gotshal memo questions “blind” contract compliance, says look for opportunities for efficient breach.
Sign of the Times II: Alston & Bird memo [...]
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Best Client Memos: Change in Control Definitions
This week I read two client memos that together offer a useful primer on contractual change in control definitions.
In “Change of Control – Is It or Isn’t It?” Weil Gotshal offers an overview of the change in control definition you typically see in a debt instrument’s change in control put, highlighting some of the key [...]
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Best Client Memos: An Introduction
Sure, the destruction of our financial system, the evaporation of our savings and the world’s plunge into the Great Recession (or the Not-So-Great Depression) has had its downsides, but it’s not all doom-and-gloom. As the world we knew sinks into the sea of uncertainty, let’s not lose sight of a silver lining: the historic underemployment [...]
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