“The Art of the Cross-Border Deal”

Thursday, June 7, 2007

12:00 – 12:45 pm, eastern [archive and transcript to follow]
 

Cross-border deals are raging at a record pace. And the large size of these deals means that no company is off-limits as a target from these deals. Learn from leading outside counsel and a top banker how these deal practices are evolving and how they differ from other public and private deals.

Join these experts:

• Tina Chalk, Special Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance's Office of Mergers & Acquisitions
• Frank Aquila, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Peter King, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
• Greg Wolski, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

Among other topics, this program will cover:

• Why are so many cross-border deals being done now?
• How are cross-border deal tactics changing? What is the evolving role of private equity funds in these deals?
• What fundamentals of the M&A process are different for a cross-border deal? How do negotiations differ? What regulatory issues arise?
• Is M&A practice converging or diverging? If it is converging, which standards are becoming normative?
• Governing law – is it an important issue? How to handle post-merger disputes?
• How to handle multiple law firms – from different countries – that are in the same deal?

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