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I’ve previously sung the praises of Rick Climan & Keith Flaum’s M&A training cartoons, and they’ve recently come out with a new program that’s definitely worth checking out.  This time, Rick & Keith are joined by their Hogan Lovells colleague Jane Ross to address fraud-related provisions in acquisition agreements.  Topics addressed in this 15-minute video include:

– The legal definition of “fraud”

– Intra-contractual fraud and whether the parties can eliminate their liability for deliberate intra-contractual fraud

– Extra-contractual fraud and non-reliance clauses

Rick, Keith and Jane do a terrific job distilling some pretty complex concepts and I think both new and more experienced lawyers will find their presentation to be entertaining and informative. The video ends with a promise that modifying the definition of fraud and negotiating fraud indemnities will be addressed in a subsequent session, so stay tuned!

– John Jenkins