Complete this M&A course to:
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Avoid missteps in deal point negotiations
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Address uncertainty from regulatory and antitrust reviews
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Limit disputes and unfavorable closing conditions
Curriculum
Establishing M&A agreements
- Confidential information exchanges and NDAs
- Coordinating agreements and avoiding standstills
- Structuring Letters of Intent and Term Sheets
- Exclusivity periods, topping bids, and "go shop" provisions
- Break fees and MAC negotiations / provisions
- Tender offers and related tax planning considerations
- Proxy contests and share accumulation methods (13D considerations)
- Asset purchase agreements and related restrictions
- Merger agreements and key considerations
Regulatory and antitrust considerations in M&A
- Information exchanges and clean teams
- Gun jumping / Interim operating covenants
- Negotiating requirements to complete
- Notification filings including HSR
- Navigating competition and antitrust reviews
- Methods for securing agency approvals
- Bifurcated closings
Closing M&A agreements
- Negotiating indemnifications and holdbacks
- Bring down of fundamental representations
- Materiality scrapes and knowledge qualifiers
- Employee transfers and retention agreements
- Allocations of risk / risk-sharing structures
- Determining frameworks for post-closing disputes and remedies
- Sandbagging / anti-sandbagging provisions
- Closing considerations
Awarded Upon Completion
You will receive 5.5 CLE (if applicable) and course certification for LinkedIn.
You will also be invited to join a confidential discussion space for exchanging ideas, best practices, recommendations, and information with other M&A Master Class alumni.
Faculty
Cathy Hwang is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia where her teaching and resea
rch focuses on business law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate contracts, and corporate governance.
Her work has been published in Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review, among others.
After Professor Hwang completed her J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School, she joined the mergers and acquisitions practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in New York.
She has been teaching for the Institute since 2021.
Professor Hwang was great. She has such deep knowledge / experience.
Professor Hwang is very knowledgeable and kept the class interesting with an engaging style.
This course provided the right amount of coverage for each topic and the appropriate level of depth.
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