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Distressed acquisitions offer many opportunities, but as their name suggests, they also carry plenty of distinctive risks. This session considers what all parties to a distressed asset transaction need to know going in.

At the end of last year we saw a number of deals slow down after it became apparent that the current administration would not have the votes in 2022 to reverse the 2017 income tax cuts.

In In re Appraisal of DFC Global Corp., the Court of Chancery conducted an in-depth analysis of three common valuation methodologies—discounted cash flow analysis, multiples-based comparable company analysis, and deal price.

In an article for Middle Market Growth, Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys Chris Climo and Katie Smalley examined certain key considerations for middle market owners and private equity (PE)...

The Carlyle Group’s recent settlement, reportedly $115 million, combines with earlier settlements by six other defendants for a total of nearly $600 million.

Despite a year of geopolitical volatility and economic uncertainty, private equity demonstrated its resilience in 2024. With challenges still ahead, how are PE managers setting themselves up for success in the coming year?

Philadelphia partner Doug Raymond’s latest column for Directors & Boards, written with the assistance of associate Peter Wolf, was published in the Second Quarter 2011 issue of the magazine.

For those who were unable to attend the recent Boston Private Equity Network (BPEN) panel and webinar on Continuation Funds – Moderated by Kari Harris...

By the time the tender offer closed, 89.1 percent of shareholders had sold their shares to the acquiring company.

This is the third article, in a three-part series, created by the FTI Consulting Automotive Team, in conjunction with The Automotive News Data Center.

On July 15, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission acquiesced to the issuance of unregistered securities in a cross-border merger between European Union jurisdictions.

The new DanoneWave unit is now one of the nation's top 15 food and beverage companies.

Davis+Gilbert's 11th annual confidential survey of public relations industry firms had the highest level of participation in the history of this report.

As the calendar turns to 2011 and the broad-based economic recovery transitions from nascent to full-bore, we think that a return to ’05–’07 levels of M&A activity is not out of the question (whether leverage levels will once again approach their historical zenith is uncertain but, with investors showing increasing appetite for risk and the availability of high-yield debt, we’re not betting against it).

Strong year-over-year gains in buyout and exit values are steadily fueling confidence in private equity's trajectory over the next 12 months, even amid evolving U.S. trade policies, political stasis in key European markets and a complex geopolitical backdrop.

The Supreme Court in Kahn v. M & F Worldwide held that, in a landmark decision, freezeout mergers structured with various inherent protections should be reviewed under the highly deferential business judgment standard...

The Court of Chancery granted summary judgment in favor of the director defendants facing claims arising from the sale of Answers in a go-private transaction.