The M&A Market Trends Subcommittee of the Mergers & Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section recently released its annual Strategic Buyer/Public Target Deal Points Study. The study (available here) covers numerous commonly negotiated deal points in acquisition agreements of U.S. public targets by strategic buyers for transactions announced in 2015. As the chairwoman of this project, I had the pleasure of working with a group of experienced mergers and acquisitions lawyers from several major law firms. The attorneys in the working group helped compile the raw data underlying the study’s results. We aimed to provide a thorough study for M&A practitioners who are trying to determine what’s market in deals involving acquisitions of U.S. public targets. Thanks to the working group’s efforts, over the past 13 months we have doubled the number of data points covered by the study.
Posted by Claudia K. Simon, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, on Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Editor's Note: Claudia K. Simon is a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP. This post is based on a Schulte Roth publication which originally appeared on Law360, and is available here.