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Fleecing The Family Jewels, Christina M. Sautter
Fleecing The Family Jewels, Christina M. Sautter
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Crown jewel lock-up options, a common deal protection device employed during the 1980s’ mergers and acquisitions boom, are back. During their popularity in the 1980s, these options took the form of agreements between a target company and a buyer, pursuant to which the target granted the buyer the right to purchase certain valuable assets, or crown jewels, of the target corporate family in the event the merger did not close. After both state and federal courts questioned the validity of these lock-ups in the 1980s, lock-ups lost their luster and dealmakers stopped using them. But as the saying goes, “everything …
The Bp B1 Bundle Ruling: Federal Statutory Displacement Of General Maritime Law, John Costonis
The Bp B1 Bundle Ruling: Federal Statutory Displacement Of General Maritime Law, John Costonis
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Among the many unresolved legal questions posed by BP’s Gulf well blowout are whether and to what extent maritime tort negligence remedies escape displacement by relevant federal statutes, including, principally, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA or OPA 90). OPA jurisprudence over two decades holds that OPA displaces these remedies. Contrarily, however, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana’s decision in In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” (hereinafter B1 Bundle) insists that general maritime law affords a parallel track to OPA’s remedies for economic and property oil discharge losses suffered by …
Hugo Lafayette Black And John Harlan - Two Faces Of Constitutional Law With Some Notes On Teaching Of Thayer's Subject, O. W. Wollensak, Paul R. Baier
Hugo Lafayette Black And John Harlan - Two Faces Of Constitutional Law With Some Notes On Teaching Of Thayer's Subject, O. W. Wollensak, Paul R. Baier
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