Materials for the Washington, DC meeting have been posted on the Programs Subcommittee Page, which you may access by clicking HERE. Also posted at that site are materials from Saturday's program on Non-Disclosure Agreements that were not included in the documents furnished on the ABA disk, as well as a transcript of a recent program presented by Rick Climan, George Bason, Frederick Green and Joel Greenberg on negotiating acquisitions of public companies in transactions structured as friendly tender offers.

Attending the Stand-Alone Meeting in Washington, DC? Refer to the current issue of Deal Points, which you can access by clicking HERE, for all the information you need about meeting times and locations. For those not attending, dial-in numbers are available for most of the meetings.

The current edition of Deal Points was recently e-mailed to all Committee members. In addition to reports from our various task forces and subcommittees, this issue contains a summary by the M&A Jurisprudence Subcommittee of the ruling by the Delaware Court of Chancery in Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GmbH, which deals with reverse triangular mergers and anti-assignment clauses. Also included in this issue are articles addressing recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law, activists investors, and price adjustments.

We have received very favorable response to our Committee's new resource, the M&A Lawyers' Library, a collection of articles and memos on timely topics in the mergers and acquisitions field. The M&A Lawyers' Library materials have been updated recently to add a number of informative papers. The research materials are available only to members of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. You can access the materials in the link in the next section of this page.

The Deal Points Studies, containing analysis of frequently-used contract clauses, are available (to committee members only) through the link found on the M&A Market Trends page. Included in those documents is the recently-published 2011 Strategic Buyer/Public Target M&A Deal Points Study. The M&A Market Trends Subcommittee has made available, through the Committee's extranet site, copies of the source documents that were reviewed in producing the studies. The extranet site, accessible also through the M&A Market Trends page, includes a feature that permits full text searches of the source documents.

The M&A Lawyers' Library is a service of the M&A Jurisprudence Subcommittee of the M&A Committee. This collection of timely articles and memos on topics of interest to the M&A practitioner, available only to members of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, can be accessed by clicking the link below.

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The mission of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee is to discuss, debate and educate its members on the legal issues relating to, and to collaborate with law schools, the judiciary and investment banking and other professionals to establish best practices for, M&A and related transactions, including with respect to the process of negotiating, documenting and bringing these transactions to market.

Committee Facts

• Founded in the late 1980s, the Committee has grown to over 4,000 members, including practitioners from 49 American states, five Canadian provinces and more than 40 different countries on five continents
• The Committee meets during the ABA Annual Meeting and the Spring meeting of the Business Law Section and also hosts an annual standalone meeting
• Among other things, the Committee focuses on issues associated with mergers, asset acquisitions, stock acquisitions, joint ventures and international transactions
• Active members of the Committee include leading attorneys, investment bankers and others involved in national and international merger and acquisition practice and generally at least one member of the Delaware judiciary
• The Committee sponsors and presents educational programs on M&A-related topics (both CLE and the timely dissemination of developments on a more informal basis)
• Committee members prepare and publish model agreements (with extensive commentary and ancillary documents), practice manuals, market trends surveys, real time alerts regarding breaking M&A developments, other resource materials and a periodic newsletter (Deal Points)
• The Committee provides practical M&A education to law students
• The Committee provides opportunities for M&A professionals to network
• Most Committee activities are conducted through various Subcommittees, Task Forces and Working Groups (click on tabs for Subcommittees, Task Forces and Working Groups to learn more about the activities of these groups)

Areas of Expertise

• Mergers and acquisitions involving U.S.-based publicly-traded companies
• Mergers and acquisitions involving U.S.-based privately-held companies
• Mergers and acquisitions involving publicly-traded and privately-held companies in Canada, Europe, Asia and the rest of the world
• Friendly and hostile transactions
• Securities law considerations in mergers and acquisitions
• State law considerations (including fiduciary duty issues) in mergers and acquisitions
• Tax, antitrust, regulatory, employee benefits, executive compensation and related legal considerations in mergers and acquisitions
• Joint venture-related issues

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Chair:  Mark A Morton

Vice-Chairs:  Wilson Chu, Keith Avery Flaum, Jennifer Muller

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