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Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions (formerly the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee)

Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions (formerly the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee)

Committee Update




Final plans are underway for our annual stand-alone meeting in Washington, D.C., on December 3 through the 6th. A registration link is contained in the meetings section below. The agenda has also been posted. The schedule of activities includes meetings of our subcommittees and task forces and remarks from representatives of the SEC and the Antitrust Division. Also included is a special CLE presentation by the "Deal Professor". Register now!

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. The 2009 Strategic Buyer\Public Target Study has recently been posted. Also available are the updated 2007 study and our first international study, which reports on Canadian transactions. 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.

A new committee resource has been added to the site. Committee member Bill Payne, as part of his work on the Editorial Group of the Revised Model Stock Purchase Agreement with Commentary (coming to stores near you in the spring), has prepared an index of the Annual Surveys of M&A Law, which have appeared in The Business Lawyer, starting with 2002. The index is in spreadsheet form and provides ready access to the articles as well as a means to scan for topics of interest. You can access the index in the Committee Resources section below or by clicking here.

The most recent issue of Deal Points, our committee newsletter, posted online here, contains summaries by the M&A Jurisprudence Subcommittee of the Alabama Supreme Court's decision in MPI Acquisition LLC v. Northcutt and the Connecticut Appellate Court's decision in Trevek Enterprises, Inc. v. Victory Contracting Corporation. Also included in this issue are two feature articles: one article co-authored by Alex Johnson and Bob Zapata entitled "Optima is Optimal: Sidestepping Omnicare in Private Company M&A Transactions" and an article submitted by William Epstein entitled "Negotiating M&A Solvency Provisions: The Financial Advisors Perspective." Finally, this issue contains the schedule of meetings and other activities for our meeting in Chicago. If you are interested in submitting an article for the next issue of Deal Points, please contact the Deal Points editor, Mike Reilly, at mreilly@potteranderson.com. You will also want to make note of Joel Greenberg's submission on a recent case involving powers of attorney that has been posted in the Committee Resources section below.




Programs, Meetings and Events

Committee Events
Annual Stand Alone Committee Meeting
December 4, 2009 - December 5, 2009
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
1150 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Agenda (revised 11/19/09)

14th Annual National Institute on Negotiating Business Acquisitions
November 12, 2009 - November 13, 2009
Windsor Court Hotel
300 Gravier Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

Spring Meeting of the Business law Section
April 22, 2010 - April 24, 2010
Downtown Sheraton Hotel
1550 Court Place
Denver, Colorado 80202
 

More About the Committee

The Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions (formerly the Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions) is part of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Founded in the late 1980s, the Committee has over 3,500 members, including practitioners from 47 states, five Canadian provinces and more than 39 different countries on five continents. The Committee's primary focus is mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and related transactions. The Committee's work addresses not only the legal substance of M&A transactions, but also the process of negotiating and documenting them. The Committee's principal activities are: (i) discussing and debating issues of current relevance and interest to practitioners in the M&A area; (ii) sponsoring and presenting educational programs on M&A-related topics; and (iii) preparing and publishing model agreements (with extensive commentary and ancillary documents), practice manuals and other reference works and resource materials relating to M&A transactions. Most Committee activities are conducted through various Subcommittees and Task Forces. Click on the tabs for Subcommittees, Task Forces and Working Groups to learn more about the activities of these groups.
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Newly-Published by our Committee

Model Joint Venture Agreement with Commentary- Loose-Leaf w/Binder with companion CD-ROM
This comprehensive resource, written by the ABA Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions, provides a complete draft of a Model Joint Venture Agreement bas... more

Leadership

Chair:  Leigh Walton

Vice-Chair:  Wilson Chu, Keith Avery Flaum, Mark A Morton

Committee Roster (3790 total members)

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