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Document(s) published by this organization: 56
Show: results per page Sort by:  | Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. v. Vulcan Materials Co.: Delaware Chancery Court Delays Hostile Bid Due to Breaches of Confidentiality Agreements
Geoffrey E. Liebmann, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 23, 2012, previously published on Spring 2012 On May 4, 2012, the Delaware Court of Chancery temporarily enjoined Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. from pursuing a hostile bid against Vulcan Materials Co. because the court found that Martin Marietta had breached two confidentiality agreements, entered into between the parties when they were...
| | SEC Staff Issues Guidance on the JOBS Act
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 20, 2012, previously published on Spring 2012 On April 5, 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act” or the “Act”) was signed into law. Among its other objectives, the JOBS Act is intended to facilitate the initial public offering (“IPO”) process for small-scale businesses by easing...
| | Bank Regulators Issue Guidance on Leveraged Lending
Jonathan I. Mark, Susanna M. Suh; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 13, 2012, previously published on Spring 2012 On March 26, 2012, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the "Agencies") issued new proposed guidance on leveraged lending (the...
| | Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper: Supreme Court Expands Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Counsel at Plea Bargain Stage
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 27, 2012, previously published on March 26, 2012 On March 21, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a pair of decisions in Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper that greatly expand the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel at the plea bargain stage. The Court held that the right to effective assistance of counsel extends not only...
| | PCAOB Issues Proposed Auditing Standard Regarding Related Parties
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 9, 2012, previously published on March 8, 2012 The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") recently issued for public comment a proposed auditing standard, Related Parties ("the Proposed Standard"), which aims to improve the auditor's evaluation of a public company's identification of, accounting for and...
| | Second Circuit Defines Extraterritorial Reach of Exchange Act Section 10(b)
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 2, 2012, previously published on March 2, 2012 On March 1, 2012, the Second Circuit issued a decision in Absolute Activist Value Master Fund Ltd. v. Ficeto, defining the extraterritorial reach of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 - an issue previously left open by the Supreme Court in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd....
| | U.S. Bank National Association v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc.: First Department Holds That Producing Party Is Responsible for Cost of Production
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 2, 2012, previously published on March 1, 2012 On February 28, 2012, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division for the First Department issued a decision in U.S. Bank National Association v. GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc., adopting standards generally governing electronic discovery in federal court - i.e., the general rule...
| | SPCA of Upstate New York, Inc. v. American Working Collie Association: The New York Court of Appeals Clarifies the Reach of Long-Arm Jurisdiction as to Defamation Claims Where Jurisdiction is to Be Based on Transacting Business in the State
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, Dean Ringel, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 17, 2012, previously published on February 16, 2012 On February 9, 2012, the New York Court of Appeals held in SPCA of Upstate New York, Inc. v. American Working Collie Association, that the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division properly dismissed plaintiffs’ defamation claim against out-of-state defendants for lack of personal...
| | Lawson v. FMR LLC: The First Circuit Declines to Extend Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protection to Employees of Private Company Contractors to Public Companies
Charles A. Gilman, Jonathan I. Mark, John J. Schuster; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 14, 2012, previously published on February 13, 2012 In a case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a decision in Lawson v. FMR LLC, holding that the whistleblower protection provision of Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX") covers only employees of "public"...
| | HSR Pre-Merger Reporting Threshold Increased to $68.2 Million
Elai Katz, Laurence T. Sorkin; Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 30, 2012, previously published on January 27, 2012 The thresholds for the premerger reporting of proposed acquisitions to United States antitrust authorities under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), will be increased effective February 27, 2012. Pursuant to amendments to the Act adopted...
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