Rick Alexander Panelist for ABA Section of Business Law - Negotiating M&A Solvency Provisions: State of the Art in a State of Uncertainty - Live Audio Webcast
Program Facilitator & Panelist: Frederick H. Alexander
May 19, 2009, Live Webcast
Wilmington, DE – May 13, 2009 – Morris Nichols corporate law and M&A partner Rick Alexander will serve as program faculty and present on the panel Negotiating M&A Solvency Provisions: State of the Art in a State of Uncertainty, a teleconference and live audio webcast sponsored by the ABA Section of Business Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education, Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
Rick’s panel will discuss how to negotiate and navigate issues relating to solvency in acquisition agreements, best practices for protecting companies and boards of directors when solvency is an issue and what an opinion with respect to solvency should cover. Joining Rick are Wilson Chu, Haynes and Boone LLP, Hendrik Jordaan, Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Craig Menden, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Lorna J. Telfer, McCarthy Tetrault LLP and William Epstein, American Appraisal Associates, Inc.
Topics will include:
- What are solvency tests and which ones matter in today’s markets?
- When should you require a solvency opinion? Who should give it? What should it say? How should the requirement for an opinion be dealt with in the deal documents?
- How did an insolvency condition end the BCE deal - which would have been one of private equity’s largest transactions in history?
- Creative solutions to transactions with insolvency issues
The ABA Section of Business Law serves nearly 60,000 members by furthering the development and improvement of business law, educating Section members in business law and related professional responsibilities and helping Section members to serve their clients competently, efficiently and professionally.
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