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This resource provides tips for buyers and sellers looking to merge with or acquire businesses.

This document analyzes Canada's Competition Act and includes helpful tips regarding competitor agreements, advertising, mergers, and pricing and distribution.

This material covers the developing controls over mergers in the EU.

A PowerPoint of the February 28, 2006 program on Key Competition/Antitrust Issues in Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Merger Notification and Review.

Almost every private company is looking for an exit strategy for its investors — most often by means of an IPO or an acquisition by a much larger, usually public, company. Accordingly, most exit scenarios entail a transition into the public company realm. That transition can be rocky, or with some advance planning, you can make it smooth and look like a star. This session will look at public company regulations and best practices as they apply to private companies in transition.

Annual Meeting 2006: How do you advise the business to decide what to keep, develop, or retire after a merger or acquire? Conducting proper due diligence of IP assets is essential to making informed decisions. Review the applicable legal issues and benchmark with your peers the proper steps to follow in IP due diligence as well as the best methods for integrating IP portfolios after a corporate merger or acquisition.

A Seller's Market - Recent Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions. Program material from the Israel Chapter 5th Annual Conference June 2007.

An overview of clauses in M&A agreements that can cause problems, including assignment, merger/integration, forum selection, governing law, specific performance, survival of representations and warranties, waiver of jury trial, severability, and notice.

Every company inevitably either knowingly or inadvertently will do business with an entity that is in financial distress. How do you plan to do business with a financially troubled company? What legal steps can be taken to ensure performance by such a company? What actions can be taken to ensure payment or performance under an agreement with a distressed company? Will your client be liable for a preference recovery upon payment by a company that ultimately files for bankruptcy? Or is your client interested in acquiring assets from a company in financial distress?

The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice issued proposed revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. This document discusses the changes in these proposed guidelines.

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