all - Opinion Summaries

YPF S.A. v. Apache Overseas, Inc.

M&A, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Upheld an arbitration award in a business dispute involving one company's sale of certain assets to another. Affirmed the district court's...

ARC Welding Supply Co., Inc. v. American Welding and Gas, Inc.

M&A, Contracts
Affirmed a judgment after trial in a contractual dispute between two industrial supply companies. The case involved the alleged breach of their asset...

Tissue Technology LLC v. TAK Investments LLC

M&A, Contracts
In a dispute that arose out of the sale of a manufacturing plant, held that the district judge was correct to withhold any remedy that would transfer...

North Valley Mall LLC v. Longs Drug Stores California LLC

M&A, Property Law & Real Estate
Affirmed summary judgment in favor of two drug store chains in a dispute with a shopping mall over common area maintenance fees. The case raised...

In re Energy Future Holdings Corp.

M&A, Bankruptcy Law
Held that a company that entered into an unconsummated merger agreement was not entitled to payment of a $275 million termination fee. The proposed...

Colaco v. Cavotec SA

M&A, Contracts
Held that two merging companies both breached an asset purchase agreement. The buyer and seller each argued that the other party had breached their...

Varjabedian v. Emulex Corporation

Class Actions, Civil Procedure, Banking Law, M&A, Securities Law
Affirming a district court conclusion in a putative securities class action relating to a corporate merger that the Securities Exchange Act does not...

Mercury Systems, Inc. v. Shareholder Representative Servs., LLC

Tax Law, M&A, Contracts
In a dispute arising out of a merger agreement in which one party agreed to indemnify the other against a purely hypothetical tax loss, involving the...

NAF Holdings, LLC v. Li & Fund (Trading) Limited

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A
In a dispute arising out of a merger, and in light of Delaware Supreme Court's answer to a certified question that plaintiff was not required to bring...

Baker v. Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, M&A
In this case, plaintiff-software-company hired defendant-bank to assist it in finding an acquisition partner. The acquisition partner later was found...